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  • From: "Art Corbit" <art_c@cox.net>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Where can you get comfrey?
  • Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 23:34:45 -0500

Hi Cheri,

I have some very serious health issues and I want to learn all I can about
Comfrey and the ways it is used. I also want to plant enough of it that I
can use it in the compost pile too. From what I have read a person could get
a small start of it then dig it up and chop the roots up a little and
replant them. I also read where if you will let it seed it will spread
pretty fast.

Art


----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheri Shelnutt" <cshel4@adelphia.net>
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing"
<livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Where can you get comfrey?


> 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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