Been seeing a lot about comfrey, what’s the deal? What is it good for?
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I'm not an expert, but this is what I know:
It is a dynamic accumulator so is great for compost.
It also can be used in a salve to heal wounds. I got a 3rd degree burn when cleaning out ash from my wood/coal stove and had a burning coal fall inside my glove (estimated temp is 1600 F). About a week after the burn when I still had a huge hole in my hand (see picture below), I put comfrey salve (Dr. Christophers) and it mostly healed up in a little more than a week. Now (3.5 months later) there is only a slight discoloration that lets you know there had been a wound of some kind. It seemed miraculous how fast my hand healed when I started putting the comfrey salve on my hand. FYI, I also put some manuka honey (from day 1), and a mix of manuka honey, collagen, and sovereign silver on it (starting 2 days after starting the comfrey salve.
Some people use it in animal feed, but you can't feed too much because it has a compound (I'm forgetting the name at the moment) that can be toxic in large quantities, so I think most people keep it to less than 5% of feed.
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Totally. My partner and uses it in the salve she makes for her apothecary. It was one of the earliest and most dramatic instances in my experience of how powerful plant Allie’s can be 💖
Wow! I bet that hurt! Thank you for your reply. I have been seeing post after post with comfrey in it. Got me curious. I’m not sure it grows around here. I will have to check and maybe grow some. The wife and I have been trying more natural cures and this might be one. Cheers!
It hurt for a second, but then not really. When you get a 3rd degree burn, it is so deep it kills all of the nerves, so you don't really feel anything except maybe at the edges. It was so bad, I thought I'd be scarred for life, but there is only a faint discoloration at this point. I'm betting by the end of the year, even that will be gone. It is amazing that I could have such a deep hole in my hand, but that it can heal completely.
What everyone else has said medicine, fodder and soil building but it grows quick so you get a lot of biomass if you keep harvesting it. Also after a while the roots go deep decompacting the soil and making it hard to eradicate it. Good source of calcium, bees like the flowers the list is almost endless.