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	Comfrey
		Comfrey is traditionally used for superficial wounds, and to reduce the inflammation of sprains and broken bones.
		Comfrey ointments (containing 5 to 20% comfrey), creams, poultices, and liniments are made from the fresh or dried herb, fresh or dried leaf, or root of comfrey species.
		Veno-occlusive disease of the liver secondary to ingestion of comfrey.
	www.metagenics.com /resources/imc/OneMedicineCons/ConsHerbs/Comfreych.html (824 words)

	Comfrey
		Comfrey is a herbaceous perennial plant with short, thick, tuberous roots, a deep and expansive root system: Comfrey begins growth in early-April and by early May compact clusters of young leaves are visible in the crown of the old plant.
		Comfrey is planted in a checkerboard arrangement in rows that are 3 to 4 ft apart to permit cross cultivation for effective weed control.
		Comfrey is a high-protein forage that, unlike legumes, obtains all of its nitrogen from the soil.
	www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/afcm/comfrey.html (2844 words)

	Comfrey
		Comfrey is traditionally used for superficial wounds, and to reduce the inflammation of sprains and broken bones.
		Comfrey ointments (containing 5 to 20 percent comfrey), creams, poultices, and liniments are made from the fresh or dried herb, fresh or dried leaf, or root of comfrey species.
		Veno-occlusive disease of the liver secondary to ingestion of comfrey.
	www.alternativedr.com /comfrey.htm (849 words)

	Comfrey
		Comfrey is also taken internally as a tea or blended plant extract (so-called green drink) to heal stomach ulcers and to act as a "blood purifier".
		Comfrey is used for sore throats and laryngitis, as a soothing expectorant for dry coughs, pleurisy and bronchitis.
		Comfrey is taken for gout and arthritis, as well as other painful or inflamed conditions such as tendinitis, sprains, and fractures.
	www.herbs2000.com /herbs/herbs_comfrey.htm (1481 words)

	ACS :: Comfrey
		Comfrey is a fast-growing herb native to Europe and temperate parts of Asia.
		Although comfrey has been used in folk medicine for many years to help heal wounds, sprains, and fractures, there have been no studies in humans to prove that it is useful.
		Comfrey has been promoted mainly to speed the healing of wounds, sprains, bruises, and bone fractures, and to reduce inflammation and swelling related to these injuries.
	www.cancer.org /docroot/ETO/content/ETO_5_3x_Comfrey.asp (1175 words)

	Herbs - Comfrey (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Comfrey is a perennial plant native to most of North America, Europe, and western Siberia.
		Comfrey is one of the most valuable herbs known to botanic medicine because it has beneficial effects on all parts of the body, and can be used as an overall tonic.
		To the extent that comfrey's action depends on the presence of cholinergic substances, its action will be affected by the decrease in cholinergic-receptor stimulation produced by anticholinergics.
	www.springboard4health.com /notebook/herbs_comfrey.html (911 words)

	Herbal Remedies ~ Comfrey
		Comfrey leaf has a long history of use to promote the healing of bones and wounds, as well as internal use to treat a wide variety of ailments from arthritis to ulcers.
		Comfrey leaf is used in herbal pastes, ointments, tinctures, decoctions, poultices and in cosmetics.
		Comfrey root is used to relieve pain from blunt injuries, promote healing of broken bones, sprains and bruises, reduce swelling and edema, and encourage the rapid and healthy regrowth of skin and tissue cells.
	www.herbalremediesinfo.com /COMFREY.html (503 words)

	Comfrey information from Drugs.com
		Comfrey's original name, knitbone, derives from the external use of poultices of its leaves and roots to heal burns, sprains, swelling, and bruises.
		Comfrey distribution is banned in Germany and Canada because of the substantial health hazard and toxicity of the plant.
		Comfrey is not recommended for internal or even limited topical use today because of the content of hepatotoxic (toxic to the liver) pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs).
	www.drugs.com /npc/comfrey.html (406 words)

	Comfrey
		Comfrey yielded less than some common forage crops and its high water content of 85 to 90%, in comparison to 75 to 80% for alfalfa, made forage preservation difficult.
		Comfrey begins growth in early-April and by early May compact clusters of young leaves are visible in the crown of the old plant.
		Comfrey requires the addition of nitrogen fertilizer to produce a high yield and protein content, while alfalfa produces high yields and protein content without addition of nitrogen fertilizer.
	corn.agronomy.wisc.edu /alternativecrops/Comfrey.htm (2857 words)

	Comfrey Benefits and Information
		Comfrey grows in moist ground in valley and meadows in regions from Newfoundland south to Georgia and west to Louisiana.
		Comfrey is an anodyne (alleviates pain), astringent (constricts blood vessels), expectorant (expels mucous), emollient (used to soften body tissues including skin), haemostatic (helps blood clotting), proliferant (increases cells growth), refrigerant, mild sedative, and vulnerary (ability to heal injuries).
		Comfrey acts as a natural laxative and the mucilage as a gum-based substance relieves diarrhea and also helps with the digestion of food, a great benefit to people suffering from irritable bowel syndrome.
	www.nutrasanus.com /comfrey.html (471 words)

	Comfrey
		Comfrey ointments were often applied to the surface of the skin to heal bruises as well as pulled muscles and ligaments, fractures, sprains, and strains.
		Comfrey is a perennial shrub that is native to Europe and temperate parts of Asia.
		Comfrey ointments (containing 5 - 20% comfrey), creams, poultices, and liniments are made from the fresh or dried herb, leaf, or root of comfrey species.
	www.umm.edu /altmed/ConsHerbs/Comfreych.html (988 words)

	Herbs Herbals - COMFREY - www.HerbsHerbals.com
		Comfrey is also known as knitbone since it has been shown that a comfrey plaster has helped mend broken bones over and over again.
		Comfrey contain allatoin which is a protein that promotes the healing of sprains and broken bones.
		Comfrey is a perennial herb and a member of the borage family.
	www.herbsherbals.com /comfrey.html (192 words)

	Comfrey Power
		Comfrey is also rich in calcium and many other valuable plant nutrients it mines from deep in the subsoil.
		Comfrey is especially useful if you have lots of dry brown material and the pile is slow to heat up.
		Comfrey is ready to harvest when it is about 2 feet tall or starts to form flower stalks.
	www.organicgardening.com /featureprint/1,7759,s1-3-81-726,00.html (1252 words)

	ChiroFind.com \| tell me about comfrey
		Comfrey is a perennial herb native to Europe and Asia.
		Comfrey has traditionally been used to treat superficial wounds, as well as the inflammation that accompanies sprains and broken bones.
		Comfrey is available via ointments (containing between 5-20% comfrey), creams, poultices and liniments.
	www.chiroweb.com /find/tellmeabout/comfrey.html (375 words)

	COMFREY
		Comfrey has long been recognised by both organic gardeners and herbalists for it’s great usefulness and versatility, of particular interest is the ‘Bocking 14’ cultivar of Russian Comfrey (Symphytum x uplandicum).
		Comfrey is a fast growing plant, producing huge amounts of leaf during the growing season, hence is very nitrogen hungry.
		Comfrey should not be added in quantity as it will quickly break down into a dark sludgey liquid that needs to be balanced with more fibrous, carbon rich material.
	www.gb0063551.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /comfrey (1470 words)

	Comfrey Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Comfrey grows well in rich, moist, low meadows, or along ponds and river banks, where it may reach a height of 4 ft (1.2 m).
		Comfrey root is large, branching, and fl on the outside with a creamy white interior containing a slimy mucilage.
		Comfrey has been prepared as a poultice or compress with healing properties for blunt injuries, fractures, swollen bruises, boils, carbuncles, varicose ulcers, and burns.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g2603/is_0002/ai_2603000295 (942 words)

	portland imc - 2004.04.09 - DIY Health: Comfrey, Nature's Bandaid
		Comfrey (symphytum officinale) has been cultivated since approximately 400 BC, is used medicinally and cosmetically, as well as in glue, leather tanning, soap making, fabric dying, fertilizer, etc. It is native to Europe and Asia, and grows in temperate climates.
		Comfrey is most commonly mistaken for the deadly foxglove, thus it is important that you have certain identification of plants before using them.
		Comfrey is a great example of a plant where in-depth study of the plant and its historical uses should be paired up with some information about physiology, sociology, medicine, and magic.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2004/04/285408.shtml (2166 words)

	botanical.com - A Modern Herbal \| Comfrey
		Comfrey leaves are sometimes found as an adulteration to Foxglove leaves, which they somewhat resemble, but may be distinguished by the smaller veins not extending into the wings of the leaf-stalk, and by having on their surface isolated stiff hairs.
		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.
		Comfrey roots, together with Chichory and Dandelion roots, are used to make a well-known vegetation 'Coffee,' that tastes practically the same as ordinary coffee, with none of its injurious effects.
	www.botanical.com /botanical/mgmh/c/comfre92.html (2225 words)

	Comfrey root, plants Organic 2$!
		Feeding fresh Comfrey leaves is a simple and effective treatment for a broad array of veterinary ills including internal and external injuries and especially digestive upsets such as scours (diarrhea).
		The salve made of the oil infusion of dried Comfrey roots and/or leaves is the fastest and most reliable healing embrocation available to treat injuries to the skin.
		Ingesting large quantities of Comfrey during pregnancy or using large Comfrey poultices daily during pregnancy is potentially life-threatening to the fetus.
	www.horizonherbs.com /comfrey-root.html (1211 words)

	The Comfrey Scandal - Who Profits (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Comfrey did not induce X-linked recessive lethal mutations in Drosophila melanogaster, and an acetone extract of comfrey was not mutagenic in Salmonella typhimurium strains TA98 and TA100 with or without metabolic activation.
		The same crude aqueous comfrey extract and one of its fractions enhanced the generation and release of O2- by unstimulated and stimulated granulocytes and increased the total respiratory burst of the unstimulated granulocytes, but had an inhibitory effect on the respiratory burst of the stimulated granulocytes.
		Dried chopped comfrey leaves were administered by cooking them in the food medium on which larvae were reared or by allowing adult males to feed on Kleenex tissue soaked in 10% aqueous sucrose solution containing comfrey (doses not provided).
	www.herbdatanz.com /the_comfrey_scandal_-_who_profits.htm (3755 words)

	Comfrey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This strain was developed during the 1950s by Lawrence D Hills, the founder of the Henry Doubleday Research Association (the organic gardening organisation itself named after the Quaker pioneer who first introduced Russian Comfrey into Britain in the 1910s) following trials at Bocking, near Braintree, the original home of the organisation.
		Rosemary Morrow writes that 'Russian comfrey and garlic could together, according to natural health usage, almost halve the present ills of western civilisation' (The Book Of Herbs, Pan 1976).
		Use of comfrey can, because of these PAs, lead to veno-occlusive disease (VOD).
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Comfrey (1611 words)

	Comfrey (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Comfrey encourages ligaments and bones to knit together firmly.
		Comfrey is also valuable in the treatment of scars.
		Comfrey is known to the crusaders as a wound herb and for repairing broken bones and battered bodies.
	www.womenfitness.net /herbs/comfrey.htm (147 words)

	Comfrey Symphytum officinale, (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Symphytum officinale, L. Comfrey is a perennial with a stout spreading root.
		Comfrey helps heal broken bones, fractures and broken skin (try it on torn perineum after childbirth, using the fresh herb poultice daily) and it strengthens tendons, ruptured lungs and other delicate cells.
		A wonderful herb for the lungs, comfrey's cooling moistening effects heal bronchitis, tonsilitis, pharyngitis, pleurisy, pneumonia and consumption and coughs, including whooping cough; they also expel phlegm, sooth the throat, lower fever and, overall rejuvenate the lungs and mucous membranes.
	www.hurontel.on.ca /~moonveil/comfrey.html (317 words)

	Comfrey Leaf organic
		Comfrey is widely known as ïone of natureÍs greatest medicinal herbsÍ, and has appeared in the U.S. Pharmacopeia, as well as in herbals and compendiums around the world.
		One of the most common uses of comfrey leaf is in an ointment or a poultice applied to sprains, broken bones and other wounds, where it promotes rapid healing of both skin lesions and bone breaks.
		Comfrey was widely used and recommended until the mid-1980s, when reports began to surface about the possibility of liver damage from the pyrrolizidine alkaloids that some plants contain.
	www.mountainroseherbs.com /learn/comfrey_leaf.php (525 words)

	The Power Plant: Free Mulch, Compost Activator, And Potent Plant Food (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Freshly cut comfrey leaves make good mulch because they're high in nitrogen, so they don't pull nitrogen from the soil while decomposing, as high-carbon mulches like straw and leaves do.
		And comfrey's high potassium content makes it especially beneficial for flowers, vegetables (such as tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers), berries, and fruit trees.
		Comfrey is especially useful if you have lots of dry brown material and the pile is slow to heat up.
	www.organicstyle.com /featureprint/1,8049,'s1-41-30-35-782',00.html (371 words)

	Future Foods - Comfrey (Site not responding. Last check: )
		While it is not actually an edible plant, Russian Comfrey is one of the most versatile plants in the kitchen garden, especially for the organic gardener as a source of potash-rich organic material and liquid feed.
		The high nitrogen means that comfrey can be used as a surface mulch or dug into soil with no worries about robbing soil nitrogen, as so often happens with green manures in the short term.
		Comfrey needs nitrates, so a good idea is to situate the comfrey around the edge of your compost bins.
	www.futurefoods.com /comfrey.html (1289 words)

	Astrology & Health: Comfrey
		The Saturnine nature of comfrey is readily reflected by its preference for growing in dark, shady places that are cool and damp.
		The leaves of the plant are rough from numerous stiff hairs, while the veins of the leaf have a flish tinge that produces a characteristic shadowy complexion to the plant's foliage.
		The name comfrey is thought to be corrupted from the Latin confero meaning "to gather together" which metaphorically captures this healing action of the herb strengthening the tissues of the body.
	www.astrologycom.com /comfrey.html (517 words)

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