Digitalis obscura the use of herbal medicinal remedies using "Digitalis obscura" has lessened to a great degree because of the knowledge of its high toxicity. In ethnoveterinary medicine, the flowering stems of "Digitalis obscura" were traditionally used to promote wound healing and treat toothaches in animals. It is one of twenty-three species traditionally used in Granada to treat trauma or poisoning in animals. All parts of "Digitalis obscura" are poisonous if ingested raw, including the roots and seeds. The most potent parts of the plant are the upper leaves. All foxgloves are highly toxic if eaten because they contain various cardiac glycosides
Radioactive contamination from the Rocky Flats Plant tests." As noted by Carl Johnson in Ambio, "Exposures of a large population in the Denver area to plutonium and other radionuclides in the exhaust plumes from the plant date back to 1953." Weapons production at the plant was halted after a combined FBI and EPA raid in 1989 and years of protests. The plant has since been shut down, with its buildings demolished and completely removed from the site. The Rocky Flats Plant was declared a Superfund site in 1989 and began its transformation to a cleanup site in February 1992. Removal of the plant and surface contamination was