Comfrey. Application of the plant

Herbaceous plant that grows on onea place for several years and reaches one meter in height, has spreading leaves and branches at the top - this is the comfrey. Its use as a medicine in folk medicine is very common. This plant is able to significantly affect human health and put even a hopeless patient on its feet. From it prepare infusions, decoctions, ointments and other drugs.

Larkspur, comfrey are the main names of the grass. It grows in damp places, on the fringes of forests, near ditches, in thickets of bushes, on damp meadows. The plant can be found in the Caucasus, the Carpathians, Central Asia, the western part of Siberia and the eastern part of Kazakhstan. The comfrey blooms throughout the summer, its flowers are purple or purple. The entire trunk, leaves and flowers are covered with bristly white hairs. Medicinal properties have roots and leaves, the second harvested at any time, but the rhizomes are excavated only in late autumn

Astringent, hemostatic,anti-inflammatory, enveloping, antimicrobial - these are the main properties that comfrey possesses. Its application is very wide. The plant has a softening and healing effect on the skin. Stops internal bleeding, improves appetite, cures diarrhea and colitis, increases the tone of the medicinal comfrey.

The use of its leaves is very different: you can simply apply them to the wounds, and you can prepare with them ointments, decoctions and tinctures, which are very effective in healing old wounds, bone fusion. They contain a substance such as allantoin, which has a beneficial effect on the early healing of bones in complex fractures. The leaves are finely chopped and applied to the sore spot, of course, if no gypsum is applied.

The roots of the comfrey also found their application. They turn into powder and prepare ointments, the basis for which can serve as internal pork fat. This self-made medicine treats osteoarthritis, gout, osteochondrosis of the spine, rheumatoid arthritis, polyarthritis. On one part of the roots there are four parts of lard, preserves the ointment in the refrigerator. She needs to lubricate the sick places before going to bed, and then wrap them with a warm cloth, then it will be better to act as a comfrey.

The use of a plant tincture hasanti-inflammatory effect on internal organs. To make it, you need two teaspoons of roots to pour 300 ml of warm boiled water, to insist all this for 8 hours. For a day you need to drink 0.5 liters. People with painful joints should take baths and make compresses with comfrey. Add 100 g of roots to a liter of water and cook for 10 minutes. The drug is filtered and poured into a bath with water, it is also possible to make compresses from it, applying it to diseased parts of the body.

It must be remembered that, although this plant andmedicinal, but still very poisonous comfrey. The herb contains cynoglossin, consolidin and alkaloids, which, accumulating in the body in large doses, can negatively affect the central nervous system, cause its paralysis. The use of decoctions inside can adversely affect the work of the liver, with external use also need to be careful. Another comfrey is contraindicated in pregnancy.