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Comfrey. Application of the plant
The herbaceous plant, which grows in one place for several years and reaches one meter in height, has spreading leaves and branches at the top, which 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.
Astringent, hemostatic, anti-inflammatory, enveloping, antimicrobial - these are the basic 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 curative comfrey.
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.
It must be remembered that even though this plant is medicinal, the comfrey is very poisonous. 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.
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