Digitalis

A first for me on blip!  I have never blipped this plant!

and I discovered they are quite horrible things!!

Snippet from a website:

Contains cardiac glycosides called digitoxin, digitalin, digitonin, digitalosmin, gitoxin and gitalonin. During digestion these produce aglycones and a sugar. The aglycones directly affect the heart muscles.

It produces a slowing of the heart which, if maintained, usually produces a massive heart attack as the heart struggles to supply sufficient oxygen to the brain. The acceleration of the heart ahead of this, sometimes leads to it being wrongly said to increase the heart rate.

The raw plant material is, however, emetic and eating a large amount may produce vomiting thus expelling the cardiac poisons before they can do serious harm

We are off out tonight to see my bestie and her new home.