Comfrey cream is used to treat back pain, knee osteoarthritis, ankle sprains, bruises, and other injuries. It combines ingredients like oils or water and glyceryl stearate with Symphytum ...

Comfrey salve, balm or cream is on my must-have list for a well-stocked home medicine cabinet. Most topical herbal preparations contain some comfrey, but some are more concentrated.

Learn about the myriad comfrey salve uses for treating soreness and wounds. We’ll show you how to make comfrey salve, an herbal healing balm from the ‘miracle plant.’ Native to Europe and ...

To assess whether there was any truth to these claims, researchers studied 120 people with upper or lower back pain. Half were given a comfrey ointment to rub on three times a day for five days ...

Comfrey, cornmeal can help treat minor skin ailments Try these methods for rashes, warts, ... I have tried every skin ointment and salve on the market, and none has ever worked well for me, save one.

An ointment containing an extract of comfrey root quickly and effectively relieves back pain, finds industry sponsored research published ahead of print in the British Journal of Sports Medicine ...

Comfrey cream has been shown to have healing powers that can be used to treat bruises. You can apply the cream to your bruise a few times a day. You can also make a compress using dried comfrey ...

Objective The objective was to show the superiority of comfrey root extract ointment to placebo ointment in patients with acute upper or lower back pain. Design The study was conducted as a ...

Its mucilaginous nature also made it a good salve. In the 1870s a Quaker researcher in England named Henry Doubleday produced a Russian hybrid of it while searching for a cold-hardy plant for the ...

When I first met her, we were on no uncertain terms -- comfrey was not my friend.I was a first-year student at The Evergreen State College in Washington state, and I was determined to have a garden.