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  • From: "Peter Wibberley" <petew@twpo.com.au>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Comfrey
  • Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 20:22:03 +0930


----- Original Message -----
From: Mikal Jakubal <mjakubal@asis.com>
To: permaculture <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 9:01 AM
Subject: re: Comfrey


> I have an ankle that I seriously sprain every few years. After one such
> occasion, I lightly cooked and mashed up comfrey roots and leaves, wrapped
> the mucilaginous mush in cheese cloth, wrapped it around my swollen ankle
> and secured the wrap with an ace bandage. Repeated twice daily. The ankle
> healed miraculously quickly.

Hi Mikal and all
My father worked in the Coal mines all his life and was injured in a fall of
rock once... his doctor asked if we grew Comfrey and when told that we did,
he prescribed a 'comfry poultice' which my mother made up and wrapped around
his knee.... apparently it helped to reduce the swelling and bruising....
this was 30 years ago and I don't remember (if I ever knew) the method of
making a comfry poultice... but Dad/Mum and the Doc reckoned it worked,
there was some talk/publicity a while ago about comfry being toxic to
humans, but the image of Dad regaining the full use of his knee with just
the help of a few leaves, has stayed with me to this day.

Pete






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