In 1775, 250 years ago, William Withering, a physician practising in Birmingham, learnt of a folk remedy for dropsy involving the use of digitalis from purple foxgloves. He started to use it in his ...

As well as cocoa and butter, the chocolates contain a range of 'performance enhancing' ingredients - including KSM-66 Ashwagandha (Withania Somnifera), OxyJun (Arjuna extract), Maca Root ...

The effects of the cardiac glycosides may be listed as follows: Therapeutic doses have no proved useful therapeutic effect on the normal heart, but have been shown to increase the contractile ...

Glycosides have been found to have various uses in treating disease, for instance the cardiac glycosides for heart disease. Glycosylation is crucial for cell recognition, signal transduction ...