In old English
Dr. Kirschner used comfrey in his medical practice to promote the
healing of ulcers and wounds. He traces the history of comfrey back to
1568 and W. Turner's Herball which said of Comfrey Symphytum, the
rootes are good if they be broken and dronken for them that spitte
blood
At 03:12 PM 2/10/2006, you wrote:
Among other things, the process creates Vitamin C and
Vitamin B12 - especially the latter is interesting because
there are no other plant sources for it.
Heidrun:
Comfrey is the only land plant known to derive and store
Vitamin B-12 from the soil. It also has
:
Comfrey is the only land plant known to derive and store
Vitamin B-12 from the soil. It also has a great many
medicinal uses, plus it's a wonderful compost plant and
with 22-33% protein a great feed for ruminants!
Kind regards,
Heidi
^
Very interesting information, I didn't know that!
Thanks
Apologies to all and sundry. I'm not going to have time
to send the comfrey before leaving for vacation. Not only
do we have our plate full with vacation/disease/mother,
but I just bankrupted us on the commodities market.
Oh, well. . . .
Things happen as they should. Since I've just
heat
to produce such beneficial power; even more amazed
that when we are flamed it just makes us brighter; and
there is never any lack of respect snicker.
Till next time--- Wil with a ps below
I haven't forgot to mail comfrey to those who requested
it. With Mother's cancer, and Chuck's
Hi Brian ,Barbara and list,
Seeing your request for info on Comfrey and not seeing any
comprehensive reply, will give you this.
COMFREY:
Scientific name:Symphytum Officinale.
Folk names: Assear,Black Wort, Boneset, Bruisewort, Consolida,
Consound, Gum
Hi Brian and Barbara, and listers,
Seeing your request for info on Comfrey and not seeing any
comprehensive reply,will give you this.
COMFREY:
Scientific name: Symphytum Officinale
Folk names : Assear,Black Wort, Boneset,
Bruisewort,Consolida, Consound,Gum Plant
Comfrey looks somewhat like Borage, has somewhat spear like dark green
leaves, and is a perenial that grows about 2-4 ft in height. If you go to my
page http://www.piggott.net/~hhr/links.html there should be two links there
that deal with plant I.D., and one of them would hopefully have a color
Comfrey is just comfrey. The pepsin must be from something else.
I'll be glad to mail you some of the root for growing your own plant
if you'll send me your snailmail address. I do not know how many of
you will want this, but I will send as much as I can.
Wil Cavanaugh
chuck...@iamerica.net
I also would like to have any information that some one on the list may
have about Comfrey.
thanks very much ..
--
Peace and Health to you and may the White Light protect you
Barbara and Brian in OZ
VK5KBW
http://www.senet.com.au/~brains/intro.htm
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The silver-list
Yes, it's back in health food stores.
Years ago comfrey-pepsin was a wonderful GI (Gastrointestinal )healing
agent. We used it to heal ulcers, to sooth the GI tract and it worked
great. Who says you need antibitics to heal h.pylori?? Anyway, someone
got a hairbrained
W. D. Cavanaugh chuck...@iamerica.net:
My point is: almost nobody I know has any knowledge of comfrey...
COMFREY:
One of the best weapons in herbal medicine; miraculous in it's ability
to rapidly mend and heal broken bones and torn flesh. The Indians called
it BONEMENDER and was wrapped
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 17:57:36 +
From: chc c...@jps.net
Reply-to: c...@jps.net
Organization: Creative Health Center
To:silver-list@eskimo.com silver-list@eskimo.com
Subject: Comfrey Off the Topic
Years ago comfrey-pepsin was a wonderful GI
Years ago comfrey-pepsin was a wonderful GI (Gastrointestinal )healing
agent. We used it to heal ulcers, to sooth the GI tract and it worked
great. Who says you need antibitics to heal h.pylori?? Anyway, someone
got a hairbrained idea to shove 1000 x the usual does into lab rats and
i believe
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