Optimizing Growth Conditions for Digoxin Production in Digitalis lanata Ehrh

Abstract

Objective: Digoxin is a therapeutic cardenolide widely used to treat various heart conditions such as atrial flutter, atrial fibrillation and heart failure in both Western as well as Chinese medicine. Digoxin is extracted from cultivated Digitalis lanata Ehrh. plants, known as Mao Hua Yang Di Huang in Chinese medicine. This manuscript presents two studies that were conducted to optimize the cultivation conditions for digoxin production in the TCM Mao Hua Yan Di Huang in a greenhouse under GAP conditions.

Keywords

• Digitalis lanata Ehrh.
• mao hua yang di huang
• cardenolides
• content optimisation
• TCM