COMFREY *Leaves

General information: Comfrey is used in wound healing, both externally and internally. Typically, it would be recommended that comfrey be boiled, and the decoction used. An ointment may also be made by digesting leaves in hot parafin wax, then straining the mixture and allowing it to cool. The herb is known as knitbone for its alleged ability to help knit bones. Comfrey is said to help heal psoriasis.

Internally, comfrey allegedly helps internal wounds, and helps to expell phlegm.

Comfrey leaves are of much value as an external remedy, both in the form of fomentations, for sprains, swellings and bruises, and as a poultice, to severe cuts, to promote suppuration of boils and abscesses, and gangrenous and ill-conditioned ulcers. The whole plant, beaten to a cataplasm and applied hot as a poultice, has always been deemed excellent for soothing pain in any tender, inflamed or suppurating part. It was formerly applied to raw, indolent ulcers as a glutinous astringent. It is useful in any kind of inflammatory swelling.

In some parts of Ireland Comfrey is eaten as a cure for defective circulation and poverty of blood.

Form & Weight: Organic, Dried, Cut, Half Pound

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