- Botanical Name: Symphytum Officinal
- Common Name(s): Comfrey, Bone Knit
- Habitat and Growing area:
- Cultivated throughout North America
- Can often be found “escaped”
- We have several beautiful large patches of Comfrey growing on our land. I originally received a small clump from our local museum and have divided many times. Remember to pick a place you can leave it to just grow, if you try to dig up and move, you will now have it in two places, the original and the new lol. Our pollinators absolutely love this plant, when in bloom they are all a “buzz” with life 🙂
- Pertinent Information on the Plant:
- Respiratory System
- Vulnerary (a medicine used in the healing of wounds)
- Demulcent (soothing action on inflammation, especially of mucous membranes)
- Emollients (softens and soothes the skin)
- Expectorant (facilitates removal of secretions)
- Astringent (agent that constricts and binds by coagulation of proteins a cell surface)
- Tonic (a substance that increases strength and tone)
- Alterative (blood purifier)
- Pectoral (remedy to relieve chest affections)
- Anti-catarrhal (reduces inflamed mucous membranes of head and throat)
- Musculoskeletal (strengthen bones and connective tissue)
- Nutritive (rich in vitamins and minerals; a source of easily assimilated nutrients) high in calcium and iron
- Phlebitis (use a poultice on clots in veins)
- Psoriasis (ointment to sooth scaling)
- Lungs, stomach, kidneys, bone and muscles
- Ideal for wounds, bruises, broken bones, ulcers, bronchitis and digestive astringent
- Your personal experience with the plant. Include your personal experience of tasting it and its effect on you.
- Bitter, sweet, cool energy
- LOVE, love this plant, a must in all herbalist’s apothecaries
- Have used for strains, sprains, bruising and broken bones.
- I cooked Comfrey leaves like cooking spinach and soaked my daughters gravel road burn/cut. The comfrey drew out a large amount of pus! It was amazing! So we repeated the process and it continued to draw out the pus. My daughter and I still speak of how amazing the Comfrey worked with her childhood bike wound:)
- The reference books used, author, page
Holistic Herbal
David Hoffmann
Pages 31, 36, 38, 39, 52, 57-60, 78, 79, 81, 127, 145-147, 158, 160, 162, 163, 178, 192, 194, 211, 214
The way of Herbs
Michael Tierra
Pages 4, 11, 13, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 121-24, 21, 28, 72, 260, 26, 261, 292, 20
The complete Encyclopedia of Herbs
Nico Vermeulen
Pages 280
Family Herbal
Rosemary Gladstar
Pages 75, 77, 129, 130, 140, 149, 167, 178, 188, 193-95, 209, 227, 229, 249, 259, 277, 301, 325
Peterson Field Guide
Easter/Central Medicinal Plants and Herbs
Steven Foster and James A. Duke
Pages 204-05
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