This plant has since been dug up, broken into six root cuttings and planted out as a border to our veggie garden. But I took one of the ‘cuttings’ and replanted it in a pot plant and then planted it out once I met my husband. Well I didn’t really save it, as she never got the whole root excavated and it kept popping up after a few weeks. She kept digging it up, it kept coming back. This is my first comfrey plant I saved from my ex-housemate’s driveway. Comfrey is an indispensable herb to grow in your garden. Common Names: Comfrey, Knitbone, boneset, consound, slippery root, blackwort. Cultivated comfrey Symphytum x uplandica is a large plant often surpassing two meters with blue or purple flowers. I think he was 83 or 85 when he wrote his book on Comfrey. Wild comfrey, Symphytum officinale, is a small plant up to a meter tall with yellow flowers. He ate the equivalent of 7 fresh leaves a day for 30 years and lived in a peak state of health. If ever hell was to freeze over and I became a vegan (!) I think I would eat copious amounts of comfrey leaf a day, or find out how to make my own dried leaf tablets like Andrew Hughes had. When we get animals on the farm, I’should have a nice crop of comfrey to feed the chookies and sheep. The new younger shoots which appear a week later are delicious battered and fried in lard.Ĭomfrey also makes excellent stock food. We also do a regular ‘comfrey shave’ every couple of months and use the leaves to compost and fertilise the soil. I’ve also taken to drying the leaves in our new whiz bang dehydrator for handy stock piles of dried leaf. We add comfrey leaves regularly to our stews, soups, and savoury dishes. Everyone should do their own research and make up their own mind. However I don’t have a piece of paper stating that I’m an authority on such topics, so the above is my opinion only. Seems to have worked for the last thousand years quite well…. After doing my own research I came to the personal opinion that the leaf is entirely safe, and to ingest the root for medicinal purposes only. Yes the authorities in Australia don’t like people eating it, based on souped up studies and a smear campaign. Maybe I love it so much, because its so healthy, unusual, and prohibited…. I highly recommend it for all budding gardeners as a first plant to grow. It is incredibly hardy, grows very rapidly due to the allantoin content and its pretty damn hard to kill. Maybe it was the fact that Comfrey was my first plant I didn’t kill, and I actually turned one plant into seven thriving plants. I wrote a ‘note’ on its more amazing properties, in particular the B12 theory on my facebook page The Herbwife. It was an amazing book, with a lot of fascinating research. probably after reading Andrew Hughes’s book ‘Comfrey – natures healing herb and health food’. I love Comfrey! I’m not sure how or when this love affair began.
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