Comfrey Hard

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Comfrey hard or rough is one of the plants of the family called borage, in Latin the name of this plant will sound like this: Symphitum asperum Lepcch. As for the name of the hard comfrey family itself, in Latin it will be like this: Boraginaceae Juss.

Description of hard comfrey

Comfrey hard or rough is a perennial herbaceous and highly branched plant endowed with non-winged stems. Such stems will be covered with tenacious bristles that will be turned back. The lower leaves of this plant are petioled, while the upper leaves will be sessile. The leaf blade can be either lanceolate or oblong-ovate. Such a sheet will be endowed with a wedge-shaped or rounded base, and its top will be quite long and pointed. The calyx of the hard comfrey turns out to be four to five times shorter than the corolla; it will be endowed with lanceolate obtuse lobes. The length of the corolla of this plant will be about fifteen millimeters, at first such a corolla will be painted in pink or light purple tones, then it becomes lilac or blue, and the tube will be longer than the calyx. Comfrey hard fruits are wrinkled nuts, painted in black tones.

Comfrey hard blooms in the summer. For growth, this plant prefers the banks of streams and rivers, forest edges and mountains of the Caucasus, and is also found as an invasive plant in garbage and wastelands throughout Ukraine and the European part of Russia.

Description of the medicinal properties of hard comfrey

Hard comfrey is endowed with very valuable medicinal properties, while it is recommended to use the roots of this plant for medicinal purposes. The presence of such valuable healing properties is recommended to be explained by the content of mucus, gum, inulin, alkaloids, choline, resin, glycosides, essential oil, asparagine and gallic acid, as well as tannins and starchy substances in the roots of this plant. It should be noted that such a plant is poisonous and for this reason it is advisable to be very careful when handling this plant.

Preparations based on comfrey are recommended for use as a hemostatic agent for internal bleeding, as well as an astringent for digestive disorders, and besides this, also as an expectorant for various pulmonary diseases.

It is recommended to treat nosebleeds with a decoction and fresh juice of the roots of this plant, and lotions are used for bruises, which are accompanied by hemorrhage into the subcutaneous tissue, in addition, for carbuncles, boils, long-term non-healing purulent wounds and ulcers. It should be noted that among the especially valuable healing properties of this plant, it is important to note the ability of hard comfrey to accelerate the restoration of damaged tissues, especially bones.

A decoction based on hard comfrey is also indicated for use in gout and rheumatoid joint lesions. It is noteworthy that the roots of this plant are also endowed with very effective antitumor activity.

In the form of baths, compresses, lotions and washing for joint dislocations, bone fractures, damage to the periosteum and osteomyelitis, it is recommended to take one part of crushed roots for five parts of vodka. The resulting mixture is infused for a week, and then taken twenty drops five times a day with one third of a glass of water. With proper application and compliance with all the rules for the preparation of such a product, high efficiency and a rather quick positive result are noted.