Comfrey officinalis - use

Grass comfrey - one of the most useful medicinal products. Perhaps this name of the plant you do not know, but about the lifeblood everyone should have heard by all means. The fish or comfrey medicinal has been used in folk medicine for a very long time. This plant has a mass of useful properties, thanks to which it can be used to treat virtually any disease.

Plant comfrey and its application

Looks blooming flower pretty nice, but simple: wide hard leaves, a powerful stem and small purple flowers. The root of the plant is of particular value for folk medicine. Use for medicinal purposes it can be in any form: in the form of tincture or broth, internally or externally.

The unique composition of the flower allows the medicinal comfrey to be used in the following cases:

  1. One of the most important advantages of a plant is its ability to speed up the restoration of bones and cartilage tissues. That is why the comfrey to his patients are very often recommended by traumatologists, surgeons and rheumatologists. Traditional medicine strongly trusts the jester, assuring that even if the bones are destroyed by small particles, the plant-based remedy can easily restore them.
  2. Very often grass comfrey is used as an anti-inflammatory or antimicrobial agent.
  3. The plant is a wonderful spasmolytic that can get rid of unpleasant sensations no worse than any painkiller.
  4. When bleeding, the lifeblood is also effective. Plant-based products help to quickly stop blood and promote wound healing.
  5. Comfrey also recognized cosmetology. Masks from the life-giving improves skin color, rejuvenate it.
  6. Thanks to the use of the root of the comfrey, immunity improves, the tone of the body rises, and strength is restored.
  7. The plant is prescribed for colds. With the help of comfrey, you can cure even the most neglected form of cough.
  8. Alcohol tincture on the roots and leaves of comfrey can be used to treat various diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.

Some specialists prescribe a live-eye to patients with malignant tumors. In this case, the plant helps to relieve pain and easier to tolerate a strong treatment.

The use of comfrey in folk medicine

It is very important to understand that the comfrey is still a cure, and therefore it is not recommended to take it uncontrolled. All the nuances of treatment should be agreed with a specialist. During the treatment course, it is necessary to observe the dosage: take it in a limited amount, using as an ointment, try to treat only the damaged areas of the skin.

The most popular recipes for the use of comfrey in folk medicine look like this:

  1. To combat joint diseases and herniated spine, ointment can be used from the comfrey. Prepare it at home is not difficult. The powdered root of the plant is enough to mix with lard in the proportion of one to four. Keep the remedy is needed in the refrigerator. It is desirable to smear problem joints at night. To make the remedy work better, the joint needs to be wrapped up with something warm.
  2. For colds helps infusion comfrey. A tablespoon of a finely chopped root of a lively egg is poured into a glass of cold purified water, infused for several hours, filtered and drunk for five to seven tablespoons a day.
  3. Alcohol tincture on the comfrey struggles with infections of the oral cavity and diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. One hundred gram of root is poured with 40 percent alcohol and infused for three weeks. Drink a drug of 30 drops four times a day.