Stem plant Ranunculaceae, Adonis. Medicinal drug Adonidis herba, Adonis herb: The dried herb of L. collected at flowering time (PH 5) – no longer officinal. Ingredients Cardiac glycosides of the cardenolide type. Effects Positive inotropic Indications Heart failure, is not used phytotherapeutically in many countries In alternative medicine Contraindications Therapy with cardiac glycosides, hypokalemia. Adverse … Adonis
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 … Cardiac Glycosides