A herb that grows in one place for several years and reaches one meter in height, has sprawling leaves and branches at the top - this is comfrey. Its use as a medicine in folk medicine is very common. This plant is able to significantly affect human health and put even a hopeless patient on its feet. From it they prepare infusions, decoctions, ointments and other drugs.
Zhivokost, comfrey are the main names for grass. It grows in damp places, on the edges of forests, near ditches, in thickets of bushes, on damp meadows. The plant can be found in the Caucasus, in the Carpathians, Central Asia, western Siberia and eastern Kazakhstan. Comfrey blooms throughout the summer; its flowers are purple or violet. The entire trunk, leaves and inflorescences are covered with bristly white hairs. The roots and leaves have medicinal properties, the second is harvested at any time, but the rhizomes are dug up only in late autumn
Astringent, hemostatic, anti-inflammatory, enveloping, antimicrobial - these are the main properties that comfrey has. Its application is very wide. The plant has a softening and healing effect on the skin. It stops internal bleeding, improves appetite, cures diarrhea and colitis, increases the tone of healing comfrey.
The use of its leaves is very different: you can simply apply them to wounds, or you can prepare ointments, decoctions and tinctures with them, which are very effective in healing old wounds, bone fusion. They contain such a substance as allantoin, which has a beneficial effect on the speedy healing of bones in complex fractures. Leaves are finely chopped and applied to the sore spot, of course, if gypsum is not applied.
Comfrey roots also found their application. They are turned into powder and ointments are prepared, the basis for which may be internal pork fat. Such a home-made medicine treats osteoarthritis, gout, spinal osteochondrosis, rheumatoid arthritis, polyarthritis. One part of the roots accounts for four parts of lard, ointment is stored in the refrigerator. Before bedtime, she needs to properly lubricate the sore spots, and then wrap them with a warm cloth, then comfrey will be better.
The use of tinctures of the plant has an anti-inflammatory effect on internal organs. To prepare it, you need to pour two teaspoons of the roots into 300 ml of warm boiled water, insist all this for 8 hours. You need to drink 0.5 liters per day. People with sore joints are advised to take baths and compresses with comfrey. 100 g of roots are added per liter of water and boiled for 10 minutes. The drug is filtered and poured into a bath of water, you can also make compresses from it, applying it to the diseased parts of the body.
It must be remembered that although this plant and medicinal, comfrey is very poisonous. The grass contains cinoglossin, consolidin and alkaloids, which, accumulating in the body in large doses, can negatively affect the central nervous system, causing its paralysis. The use of broths inside can negatively affect the liver, with external use you also need to be careful. Comfrey is contraindicated in pregnancy.
