博客來Learn how to cultivate Comfrey so you have the best productivity. Methods of propagating by seeds throughout the year. How to dig root cuttings and transplant them successfully for your garden or farm. Details about location, timing, spacing, soil, fertilizer, water, pests, disease, weeds and temperature. Even how to get rid of Comfrey in places you do not want it.
The best ways to collect and store Comfrey seeds. Tools used to harvest Comfrey leaves and roots with the optimum frequency of cutting / digging. See what type of productivity you can expect per garden plot or acre. How to dry Comfrey leaves and roots properly. Details about how to make good Comfrey silage for your livestock.
Lots of information about how livestock love Comfrey including cattle, chickens, ducks, donkeys, fish, geese, goats, guinea pigs, horses, pigs, rabbits, sheep and turkey. How to use Comfrey as livestock medicine with articles from the 1800s to the present.
Many stories and excerpts about Comfrey as human medicine from the 1800s to now, includes old-fashioned herbal remedies. One of the healing aspects of Comfrey is the allantoin; how this helps you heal. How to make and use Comfrey medicine such as powder, tinctures, extracts, syrups, lozenge, oil, ointment, poultice, compress, bath and more.
Extensive medical research about Comfrey starting in 1968 and going to the current time. Excerpts from all of the important medical studies with analysis of many of them. Details about the types and amounts of alkaloids in Comfrey. How and why people react to them, some more than others. An overview of government regulation of Comfrey as medicine in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, European Union, and Australia from 1982 to now.
Includes an historical overview of how people have drunk Comfrey tea and eaten Comfrey leaves starting in 1824 in Europe.
