Eye Medicine for the Heart

The picture illustrates nature’s power as opposed to the human touch.

The cultivated plants in the bucket are having difficulties surviving and are failing miserably at providing esthetic value. The foxglove thrives naturally in a crack between the wall and the pavement and puts its bucketted neighbors to shame in question of size, health and beauty.

The foxglove (digitalis purpurea) has been used as a heart medicine for hundreds of years but this practice has been abandoned in recent times. The digitalis medicine, with its variations of preparation, dosages and state of the patient, was just as likely to kill as to cure.

Its beauty on the other hand has the power to cure the saddest heart.