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Plants have been used for medicinal purposes since prehistoric times. In the United States the greatest concentration of medicinal plants is in the Southern Appalachians, where plants were used at first by the Native Americans and early settlers. Modern medicine still uses many today, such as foxglove, for digitalis to treat heart trouble; witch hazel, used in cosmetics; and goldenseal, an ingredient in eye drop preparations.
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