Comfrey

Useful properties and recipes comfrey

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The Botanical characteristics of the plant

Comfrey is a perennial plant growing up to 1 meter in height. The plant has a black rhizome with long roots, short and powerful. In branching and erect stems, covered with stiff hairs that are rough leaves are large, alternate and lanceolate. The upper leaves are sessile, and the lower are arranged on short stalks. Comfrey flowers are collected in drooping inflorescences curls. Comfrey buds small, reddish-purple bells, but there are other color.

The fruit of comfrey – nut, black in color, large in size, containing a single seed. Comfrey flowering lasts all summer. Ripe fruits of plants from mid-July to early September. This medicinal plant is often found in Europe, Japan, Asia, and Africa. You can also see the comfrey in New Zealand and North America. Comfrey is a moisture-loving plant, so it grows often on river banks, in fields, near marshes and streams.

The beneficial properties of comfrey

The comfrey contains tannin, resin, starch, choline, sugar, mucilage, and many other useful for the human body substances.

Comfrey has anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial action. This plant is an excellent antispasmodic. Comfrey is used for bleeding as a means which stops the blood. From comfrey to prepare drugs that help to cure cough, have a soothing and enveloping effect. Comfrey helps to restore bone tissue.

In addition, the plant contains substances that affect the tonicity of the organism, increasing its level. Comfrey is recommended for people with high blood pressure, it improves the digestive process.

Do not forget that comfrey contains poisonous substances, which paralyze the nervous system.

The use of comfrey

Comfrey is used as a tool in the treatment of degenerative disc disease, tuberculosis of bones, gout, arthritis, arthrosis, and inflammations of the periosteum. Most often in folk medicine, comfrey is used in the form of baths, compresses, ointments and wash, help in the treatment of bruises, scrofula, skin diseases, fractures, wounds and ulcers.Comfrey tincture on alcohol is used as a poultice in inflammatory processes.

Inflammation of the mucosa of the oral cavity, diseases of the kidneys and the lungs is used an infusion of comfrey milk. It is prepared as follows: take 10 grams of the roots of comfrey and pour their glass of milk, put in oven for 6 hours to evaporate. Make ready infusion should be three times a day for 1 tablespoon.

A nosebleed can be stopped, moistened cotton wool in the juice of the root of comfrey.

A tumor of the uterus can be cured with tincture of comfrey. Preparing the infusion quickly and easily. For its preparation take 10 grams of the roots of the plant and pour 100 ml of alcohol. Leave for 14 days to infuse. Take the finished tincture before meals 15 drops, which are pre-diluted in 100 ml of water or boiling water.

Decoction for external use. Take 1 tablespoon of the roots of the plant and fill it with 100 ml of boiling water. Put the composition on the fire for 10 minutes. After straining the broth will cool and make lotions, compresses, rinsing with inflammation of the skin, festering wounds and fractures.

A decoction of gastric ulcer. For its preparation take 20 grams root of comfrey and 40 grams of the following herbs: St. John's wort, chicory, plantain, knotweed, calendula (flowers), and horsetail pine. All mix and pour two cups of boiling water. Put the composition on the fire for 10 minutes. Strain the finished broth, it take 100 ml three times a day before meals.

Ointment of comfrey for external tumors. Cook it this way: take 1 tablespoon of fresh roots of the plant and grind them to a pulp. Add to this the mass of 1 tablespoon of pork fat. Put the composition in a water bath for half an hour. When the mass has cooled slightly, add it to 5 grams of camphor oil. Tumors smeared with this ointment several times a day.

A poultice of comfrey. For this take the fresh leaves of the plant and chop them. Izmenenie leaves applied to aching joints, lower back. Best of all this procedure is done for the night, ready perebintovany poultice bandage.

Contraindications to the use of comfrey

Given the fact that the plant contains poisons and should be used only with extreme caution. Pregnant women in any case you cannot use drugs from this plant. Before the use of drugs of comfrey need to consult with your doctor.