Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Cheri Shelnutt <cshel4@adelphia.net>]

Comfrey is a wonderful plant - if I could only grow one medicinal  
herb it would  be comfrey.  I have been using herbs to treat my  
children and myself for 24 years and comfrey is so important to our  
health.  It is the base of all of my medicinal salves.  Comfrey  
contains a compound called alantoin - it causes cells to regenerate.   
The only caution I would use is make sure you clean your wound well -  
it will heal so quickly with comfrey that it will seal the dirt in if  
you aren't careful.

Comfrey tea is also very healing to the body - there is some  
controversy because someone decided to do a study and fed rats a diet  
of 80% comfrey - this caused liver problems in some of the rats  - I  
have no problem drinking comfrey tea myself.... (it has been done  
safely for thousands of years).
Cheri

On Aug 3, 2006, at 9:46 AM, Art Corbit wrote:

> Thanks Paul,
>
> I was considering it as a compost material. The fact you don't have to
> replant if every year is a plus. If there is any chance of it being  
> toxic to
> the soil or man I wouldn't want to use it though. I'll do some more  
> reading
> up on it and see what I can come up with. Thanks for the picture.
>
> Art
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
> To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 8:27 AM
> Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Where can you get comfrey?
>
>
> > www.comfreycentral.com
> >
> > paul tradingpost@lobo.net
> > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
> >
> > On 8/2/2006 at 10:45 PM Art Corbit wrote:
> >
> > > Harvey,
> > >
> > > I have been trying to find a picture of this comfrey but haven't  
> > > been
> able
> > > to yet. If I have seen it before I didn't know what it was. It  
> > > sounds
> like
> > > something a person could grow in fence rows and use for compost.  
> > > If you
> > > have
> > > a link to a picture of it please post it.
> > >
> > > Art
> >
> >
> >
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