Effects
- Positive inotropic (hermuscular contractility).
- Negative chronotropic (heart rate)
- Negative dromotropic (excitation conduction)
- Positive bathmotropic (stimulus threshold is lowered).
Indications
- Heart failure
- Arrhythmia
Agents
- Digoxin (Digoxin Sandoz)
- Digitoxin
Other active ingredients such as convallatoxin or proscillaridin are no longer commercially available today.
Stem plants
- Adonis
- Christmas rose
- Foxglove, see under red foxglove
- Lily of the Valley
- Sea onion
- Oleander
- Strophanthus
- Uzara root
- Various animals, e.g. toads
