Comfrey or Symphytum
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Comfrey or Symphytum is a common enough sight in certain areas. This was in a friend’s garden where they were making liquid fertilizer from it.
As a medicinal herb, it is pretty much used only externally these days. Even though 2,000 of historical use precedes this. Due to the presence of Pyrrolizidine alkaloids internal use has been suspended. Also known also as Knitbone, you can liquidise the leaves and root with olive oil added to turn the blades and the resultant fresh goo, can be put on the skin in need of mending, slow to heal bones and sprains, painful joints and the like. It is the allantoin and rosmarinic acid that helps this magical outcome.
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