Throughout history, plants containing cardiac steroids have been used as heart drugs and as poisons (e.g., in arrows used in combat), emetics, and diuretics.
Did you know?
Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
Did you know?
Cyanide works by making the human body unable to use oxygen.
Did you know?
All patients with hyperparathyroidism will develop osteoporosis. The parathyroid glands maintain blood calcium within the normal range. All patients with this disease will continue to lose calcium from their bones every day, and there is no way to prevent the development of osteoporosis as a result.
Did you know?
There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
