Do you prefer a natural approach to healing? Do you find that the Western Medicine approach sometimes leaves you with unpleasant side effects you’d rather avoid? I have discovered with experience that my body doesn’t respond well to Western Medicine in some ways, and you may be one of those people as well.
As a young adult, my mother used Comfrey as an herbal poultice to help heal skin inflammation and infection. We used it for hang nails, infected scratches, and mild staph infections. It was a huge relief to me as I was at an impressionable age when my face with impetigo was embarrassing. Comfrey worked fast, healing the wounds and preventing scarring.
As a psychotherapist, I have researched natural remedies including the use of Comfrey for pain, for arthritis, and for repairing damaged cells. Comfrey has allantoin in it, which promotes cell regrowth, helping injuries heal faster than conventional remedies. It’s cheap, easy to grow, and easy to use. Comfrey makes a wonderful tea, poultice, or salve.
Several years ago, I had a client in my office with boils on her stomach. They were painful, her doctors couldn’t figure out what had caused them and the Western Medicine treatments weren’t working. I wondered if Comfrey might help as her boils looked infected. I gave her a small plant. She made a poultice which she applied to her boils. The next week, she returned for therapy, telling me that the poultice helped so much that she felt significantly better the next day. Within a few days, the boils were gone. She later learned that the boils were caused by shingles.
A few years ago, I developed a frozen shoulder from an injury. Apparently, the recovery time is 12-18 months. My physical therapy was not helping. Putting comfrey salve all around my shoulder 5-6 times per day, healed my shoulder in 3 1/2 months until I had full range of motion.
More recently, at a dance class, a larger woman stepped on my foot. The little bones above my toes were crushed and I was in great pain. My husband brought my salve from the car. I rubbed it where she had stepped on me to reduce the pain. The next day, I had a horseshoe-shaped bruise with swelling around a central section which was not bruised or swollen. That central section was where I had put the Comfrey Salve. I rubbed the salve on my foot several times a day, later discovering that I had a tiny fracture in one of the little bones. After three weeks of salve use, there was a calcification where the bone had mended, and no pain, bruising, or swelling was left. After an additional three weeks of salve use, the bone felt completely normal again.
There is good, placebo-controlled research that demonstrates Comfrey’s effectiveness in treating arthritis and other kinds of joint and back pain. I’ve used it consistently on arthritis in my hands and rarely have any arthritis pain anymore. I have also used it on my carpal tunnel with excellent results. I don’t need surgery and rarely have any pain.
In the last few years, I’ve met three women who healed broken arms with Comfrey. They both told me that their doctors confirmed the break, and put their arms in a brace and sling to keep it immobilized while the swelling went down. They put Comfrey salve on their arms several times a day while drinking Comfrey tea. When they returned to their doctors three weeks later to be casted, their bones were healed and casting was unnecessary. Comfrey means knit-bone in Latin.
There has been some negative marketing against Comfrey by big pharma interests, trying to convince people that Comfrey is unsafe and damages your liver. It is interesting because their pain medication, opiates are dangerous, not just to your liver, but are also extremely addictive. The truth about Comfrey is that the original plant is native to North America. The original plant flowered in yellow and cleared through the liver. The current Comfrey plant is a hybrid with purple flowers and it does not clear through the liver and is completely safe. You can check out herbalist Susan Weed’s website to learn more about the safety of Comfrey. Appalachian folk medicine says that the root is for the inside of the body and the leaves are for the outside of the body.
It seems that Comfrey does a lot more than just knit bones! I hope you’ll benefit from this article by learning a cheap, safe, and effective method to heal yourself. This method was used by the characters in my apocalyptic book, Evasion which you can find on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=evasion+book+erica+l+hernandez&crid=2PPLD9A9EBSE0&sprefix=evasion+book%2Caps%2C501&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_2_12