Comfrey Cream - Does it Really Work?

[Guest guest]

Can you share Magda's info so I could order some of that salve.

Carol

 

>>>>>>>>>>The short answer is YES!

 

A good comfrey cream is total magic.

 

The botanical name literally means " something that helps to grow together " .

Symphytum Officinale. It used to called knitbone.

 

My friend Magda made a liniment based on comfrey and poplar buds

and some other things that are her trade secret. The poplar buds have a natural

form of aspirin.

 

I used it when I was recovering from a broken ankle, after the cast

came off, when I had to get back to work on my feet. I'd hobble into the shower,

in pain, apply the liniment, feel immediate relief, and be painfree most of the

day. I gave a jar of it to my sister in law who had suffered a really mean ankle

break and was not healing well at all. It did its magic on her too.

 

And down the road here the husband of another salve maker fell off a roof and

was banged up and bruised all over. The wife's comfrey salve made a big

difference in his recovery.

 

Magda's liniment is based on olive oil, a salve rather than a cream. It smells

heavenly thanks to the poplar buds and is thickened with a bit of beeswax.

 

She lets comfrey leaves sit around in the olive oil for a long time.

 

Every now and then I think of making some, but those ladies have it down to a

fine art already, so I will let them earn a few bucks and focus on something

else. Like tinctures and bedding plants.

 

Ien in the Kootenays

switching from garden season to computer season

http://freegreenliving.com (blog)

http://wildhealing.net (fave natural foods store) <<<<<<<<<<<<<<

[Guest guest]

I would be interested also. Thanks!

 

 

 

cdesousa5

oils herbs etc

Thu, Oct 29, 2009 4:55 pm

Comfrey Cream - Does it Really Work?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can you share Magda's info so I could order some of that salve.

Carol

 

>>>>>>>>>>The short answer is YES!

 

A good comfrey cream is total magic.

 

The botanical name literally means " something that helps to grow

together " . Symphytum Officinale. It used to called knitbone.

 

My friend Magda made a liniment based on comfrey and poplar buds

and some other things that are her trade secret. The poplar buds have a

natural form of aspirin.

 

I used it when I was recovering from a broken ankle, after the cast

came off, when I had to get back to work on my feet. I'd hobble into

the shower, in pain, apply the liniment, feel immediate relief, and be

painfree most of the day. I gave a jar of it to my sister in law who

had suffered a really mean ankle break and was not healing well at all.

It did its magic on her too.

 

And down the road here the husband of another salve maker fell off a

roof and was banged up and bruised all over. The wife's comfrey salve

made a big difference in his recovery.

 

Magda's liniment is based on olive oil, a salve rather than a cream. It

smells heavenly thanks to the poplar buds and is thickened with a bit

of beeswax.

 

She lets comfrey leaves sit around in the olive oil for a long time.

 

Every now and then I think of making some, but those ladies have it

down to a fine art already, so I will let them earn a few bucks and

focus on something else. Like tinctures and bedding plants.

 

Ien in the Kootenays

switching from garden season to computer season

http://freegreenliving.com (blog)

http://wildhealing.net (fave natural foods store) <<<<<<<<<<<<<<

[Guest guest]

Carol asked:

 

Can you share Magda's info so I could order some of that salve.

Carol

 

Sorry for the late reply, for some reason Vista sorted that post

into junk.

Anyway, Magda's web page never quite survived her move to

a new off-grid homestead so the best way to contact her now

is to just email her:

 

flyinghands

 

The not-quite functioning website is here

http://flyinghandsfarm.addr.com/

 

Let me know if you get through, if not I'll give her a call.

 

Ien in the Kootenays

http://freegreenliving.com

 

 

[Guest guest]

I've made comfrey salve for many, many years and passed the knowledge on

to many, too.

It's very easy to make, I call it ' Green Goop'.

I add other herbs to it, to make it an all purpose salve, especially

plantain, some calendula and a few drops of lavender and ttree

essential oil.

Fill a quart jar loosely with fresh chopped

comfrey,

plantain

calendula*

Fill the jar with a good grade of olive oil.

In a double boiler on the lowest heat ( never, ever should the oil

boil), have the oil extract the medicine from the plants, until you have

an oil that looks a luscious green.

Decant and filter through and old potato ricer,or coffee press.

Back into the double boiler and if you have 3/4 of a cup of oil, you add

1/4 of beeswax. Slowly let the wax dissolve.

Set up your little containers on a baking sheet with wax paper and

after the bees wax has dissolved, taken out of the water bath, add a

few drops of the essential oils, stir them in well with a wooden skewer.

Fill your containers, label and date.

Notes:

 

* If out of season, I have used dried calendula flowers.

I would not recommend using an oil in which the plants have been

sitting for a long time, it just invites botulism.

In spring, I do collect balsam poplar buds and infuse them in alcohol.

they are very, very sticky, but have the properties to inhibit mold and

work like a preservative.

A bit of that tincture, I do use on SJW, which works best when the

blossoms are in olive oil and their medicine is extracted by the sun.

I always keep a few large dried comfrey leaves over winter to

reconstitute, by pouring boiling water over them. Almost a miracle how

they help a sprain.

I have so many testimonies about my green goop and what people have used

it for, that you would think I invented a miracle ointment. Originally,

I made it to use on bug bites for kids, for it takes the itch down

immediately. The plantain works like Benadryl.

C-M

[Guest guest]

Dear Christa Maria,

 

Thanks so much for that! I am much more likely to make a batch with those

instructions.

Plantain is one of my favorite herbs. It works like a charm slapped raw, chewed

up a bit,

on wasp stings. Now I can hardly wait till spring to start making some of my own

gloop, .