COMFREY(Blackwort)

Common Names: Blackwort, bruisewort, gum plant, healing herb, knitback, slippery root, wallwort, nipbone.

Part Used: Root

Medicinal Properties: Demulcent, astringent, pectoral, vulnerary, mucilaginous, static, nutritive.

Description and uses: Powerful remedy in coughs, catarrh, ulceration or inflammation of the lungs, consumption, hemorrhage and excessive expectoration in asthma and tuberculosis. Very valuable in ulceration or soreness of the kidneys, stomach, or bowels. The best remedy for blood urine.

Apply a fomentation wrung out of the strong hot tea for bad bruises, swelling and relieve the pain. Also use as a fomentation on boils.

A poultice of the fresh leaves is excellent for ruptures, sore breasts fresh wounds, ulcers, burns, bruises, gangrenous sores, insect bites and pimples. The tea taken internally is useful in scrofula, anemia, dysentery, diarrhea, leucorrhea, and female debility. Also has an excellent effect on internal sores and pains. Take one or two capsules daily for one or two weeks, then take a week’s rest. Boil one ounce of the root in one quart of water and take several wineglassfuls a day as decoction.

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