Studying comfrey in the photo

The generic name comfrey comes from the Latin word meaning “to join”, “to join”. From these words you can guess that the healing properties of the plant are aimed at the joints and skeletal system.

In everyday life, comfrey is also known as shot, bone crusher, fat root, borage.

Comfrey in the photo most often appears in the form of an aerial part of a plant with flowers, which would seem to indicate the use of these parts of the plant in medicine.

However, everything is not so, and in medicine, comfrey root is used as a medicinal raw material. The comfrey rhizome is black on the outside, but inside it has white pulp, very juicy. Raw materials are harvested in the fall after the leaves on the plant have withered, or next spring.

In general, it should be noted that comfrey is a poisonous plant. It contains substances that can paralyze the nervous system. But at the same time, it has anti-inflammatory, wound-healing, antispasmodic, and hemostatic properties.

Preparations made from comfrey help in the restoration of bone tissue, stimulate cell growth, and have an expectorant, astringent and enveloping effect. Other positive properties of comfrey are also noted: it improves digestion and increases the overall tone of the body, helps lower blood pressure, and reduces pain in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.

In our country, the plant is used only in folk medicine; in official medicine, unlike Western countries, the medicinal raw materials of comfrey are not used for the production of medicines.

After studying comfrey in the photo and learning about its beneficial properties, you may want to grow this useful plant in your garden or collect it in the wild and use it for various ailments.