Comfrey Infused Oil
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- Опубліковано 27 лис 2024
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There are many applications of Comfrey on a permacultue based farm from feeding livestock to using it as herbal medicine. Want to know how to Infuse Comfrey into an oil?? Lacie will show you how to take fresh Comfrey and make a Comfrey Infused Oil.
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Crock pot!! That's genius! I've never thought of that, I always used a pot with water in it and watched it like a hawk. Thank you! Also, just wanted to say how beautiful you look! From one mama to another. ;) So rested and relaxed! ~Meg
You are very welcome Meg! I am glad that I was able to show you a new way to infuse oils! Thank you so much for your kind words! I hope you are able to rest and relax after you get your house ready to sell. ~ Lacie
Make yourself a big pot of greens, using equal amounts of borage, dandelion and mullein. Throw in a handful of stinging nettle and milk thistle, if you can. If you can't make a full pot, fill it the rest of the way with amurinth leaf, chard, beet or turnip greens. Parboil for 5 minutes, change water. Slow cook over medium low heat for several hours. Season however you wish. I like turmeric, cayenne, onion, garlic and sea salt and a dash of black pepper just a few minutes before taking it off the heat. Eat a bowl of these greens 3 to 5 times a week. This should help to reduce or remove any parasites and help heal any damage done. ;-)
Ha! When I moved into my small home 20 years ago, I tried every way to get rid of comfrey and failed. Now I will put it to good use. I use those same pickle jars for fermenting veggies and I have that same crock pot here in Michigan! 😃
I planted my first comfrey plant this year. I will be anxious to see if it survives the winter here on our farm. I've heard it has lots of health benefits! Thanks for sharing this recipe for healthy comfrey. Now I will know how to use my comfrey when it grows back this spring! Journey On! So Good To See You All Again!
It is pretty hard to kill so I think it will be fine! I'm glad that I could show you how to use it! Hope you are well!
She is really good at doing this. It looks like she has been doing it for years!
Thank you! ~ Lacie
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I love that your comfrey is still growing! it's been frosty here in Pennsylvania & most of my plants have been cut back for the winter. I signed up for your mailing list & yes! I would love your recipe ~ I am so glad I don't have to sacrifice another pot ~! Thank you!
Hey Vicky! I have to admit that I shot the footage for this in lat August when it was still really green around here. I too have already cut almost all of my comfrey back for the winter. What I cut I put in the dehydrator and now I have comfrey to use throughout the winter. I will be working on that email this week and give you a couple of other options for infusing oils. Thank you so much for watching! ~Lacie
Love comprey! So good for arthritis pain!
It is definitely one of my favorite plants! ~ Lacie
Mike you are Blessed with a Beautiful family Son that's True Wealth! Love and God Bless America! Uncle Jeff!
Thank you Jeff! We certainly are blessed. Thanks so much for watching!
Great video. I love the sound of the rain on the roof!
Thank you Matt!
Love the sound of the rain! Glad to find this recipe. :)
So glad that you find this helpful!
I had fully dried my comfrey because i had read that the water in the cells of the comfrey will shorten the life of the infused oil
Tracy you are correct! It is better to use fully dried herb when making infused oils but you can do it the way that I have shown. The oil I infused with this comfrey is kept in the frig to prolong shelf life. I will mention this when I give the directions in our email. If you do use fresh herbs you can also add Vitamin E into your oil to help lengthen the shelf life. ~ Lacie
Awesome i am making this this weekend and adding local bees wax to make a healing salve
That is next on my agenda! I haven't had time to make any this year.
Making my oil infused comfrey tonight! I've never canned, sure hoping it works out! Thank you so much Lacie for a very easy to follow video. Signing up for newsletter asap.
Beautiful, precious children. 😀
Thank you Mari!
The rain sounds beautiful coming coming down on the top of your guys yurt! I Love that sound! Thank you for sharing this about the comfrey! Definitely something I want to do! 🌼
I love the sound of the rain too! You are very welcome for sharing how to make comfrey oil. We use it often on skin irritations and such. Thanks so much for watching!~ Lacie
Hi! Just wanted to say Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year to all of you!
Thank you so much Maxie! We all hope you are doing well!
Oh man, I sure wish I had comfrey infused oil like that. My 2 comfrey in the window are too small to harvest from. I hope the stuff I planted outside survives! 😆
I just had surgery on my back about a month and a half ago or so.(Nov. 23rd) 3 disc fusion. Going to physical therapy 3 times a week, shea butter and oils for my back. But no comfrey. I didn't have enough to harvest. Oh well!
~Blessings to you All! Hope you have Merry Winter Solstice!🕊
Tina comfrey is hard to kill! All of the comfrey plants that we have came from just one plant that was given to us about 8 years ago. One of our friends gave us our one plant in a black plastic container during late Fall. We accidentally left it out and it froze solid so we thought it was dead and in the spring there was no signs of foliage so we put the potting soil it was in into one of our raised beds. After a few weeks I noticed that it has started to grow. From that one plant we have propagated many plants.
I'm sorry to hear about your back surgery! You can purchase dried comfrey and make an infused oil with it. It is actually better to used dried herbs because your oil will stay fresh longer. I will include all of that information in my email. Thanks so much for watching!~Lacie
This is SO helpful! I started experimenting with comfrey. I like to grow a new plant I’m unfamiliar with, see how it grows, what it looks like & how to harvest & use it. Last year I planted 2 roots I propagated from a friend and WOW! They grow bigger than I expected. However, when it came time to experiment with harvesting, things went awry. I dried some, oil infused some & tinctured some. The oil smelled so bad when i went to harvest the oil, I tossed it. I thought it had gone bad. Now I’m seeing from some comments that that’s just the way it is? So I’ll ask anyway. After your method, does it stink? ( I LOVE the crockpot method thanks for that) I’m about to harvest a second time this year & want to know if I should expect a stink again? Thanks! ♥️
Great video M and L! I love comfrey and now have another use for it! God bless you guys for all you do
Glad we can be of help! Comfrey is one of our favorite herbs because it has so many uses. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Wow, looks like it’s useful for a lot of things.
There are so many uses for Comfrey! I will do my best to give even more suggestions in our email with written instructions. Thank you so much for watching! ~ Lacie
Looks good. I am supposed to have knee surgery next year and I have been trying to get my comfrey seeds to sprout with no luck. Now that winter is here, I can't wait till spring to try again. I assume I need to rub it on my sore knee after surgery? Thanks for the recipe.
I'm not sure that is is easy to sprout comfrey seeds. If you can find someone close to you that has a comfrey plant see if you can dig up a little bit of their roots and it is really easy to get a plant that way. I would not use comfrey on your incision site until it has healed up because comfrey can cause the top layers of skin to heal first and you could possibly get an infection in the wound. But you can use it around the incision until it heals over.
Life is about to get crazy so I’m taking this time to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas 🎄
Thank you Jennifer! I hope you have some time to slow down and relax soon.
Thanks for sharing how to make this, Lacie. I have lots of comfrey for feeding the animals but will be trying this. Love the sound of the rain!
Great Bonnie! Comfrey is such a wonderful plant with many uses. I love the sound of the rain too! ~ Lacie
Thank you for the lesson!! Gid bless!!
OMG!! Thank you for this...some of the other recipes use a comfrey only pot...designated for just that!! I want to make some but I had a hard time deciding on what pot to let go..NOW I don't have to!! Thanks for the tip! Now to grow the Comfrey...any tips?
You are so very welcome! We have been growing comfrey for about 8 years now and I have definitely noticed that it doesn't like to be in full sun. It will grow in full sun but the leaves become scorched in the summer because of direct sun. It likes to be planted in a shady/partial shade area with a decent amount of moisture. Plant it where you want it because you won't ever get rid of it. lol It doesn't necessarily spread but if you cut a root a new plant is going to pop up where it is cut (if that makes any sense). ~ Lacie
Lacey, I made your oil into a salve...helping my carpal tunnel and most importantly helping my Sister-in-law with her Fibromyalgia. Thank you for your helping me when I had questions. I did use coconut oil....and my cats and dogs think my hands and arms are treats..note to self use olive oil next time. I use it at work like lotion, on a keyboard all day and it has made a tremendous difference. Not a cure...but not in pain all day!!! Thank You!!!!!!!! Appreciate ya!!
Lacy, thank you for the video. Do you think this can be used as a facial salve?
Loving your babies
Hi. Thanks for sharing. Take care.
I wanted to see the roots incorporated, cuz now in November I've harvested some roots & heard the roots were the main medicinal part, tho surely whole plant medicine should have a prominent place. This would include the flowers too, OFC. Tho nice seeing you folks -- great yurt too, cuz way better to live in the round than to be boxed. I can just hear Malvina Reynolds sing "Little Boxes" -- well worth a look up on these pages. The roots are kinda slimy, but then sorta not, cuz that's just the way they are, perhaps related to their medicinal effect...uh, more like obviously, due to signature theory's place in herbology.
Thanks for sharing Lacie
Thank you for watching!
Might have to get me some of these plants. I keep reading that you can't get rid of the once you have them. What are you experiences with them? They say they also make great natural nitrogen producers to fertilized other plants.
I would like to get a copy of the printed instructions. I signed up to the farm thing since that was the only think I could find to sign up to
Could you send me a reminder to do that for you? My email is Lacie@BigPondFarm.com I am getting ready for this hurricane and have a bunch of other stuff to do. Also within the next couple of weeks I am going to do another video on how to infuse dried herbs into oil.
I haven't heard of Comfrey until now, it seems very interesting. Would you refrigerate to extend the shelf life?
Thanks for sharing
Comfrey is a wonderful, has been used for thousands of years, and has many uses. I do refrigerate my oil because I used fresh herb. You can also add Vitamin E as a preservative to extend the shelf life. In the email I plan to give you a couple different ways to infuse oils and how you can use them. Thanks so much for watching! ~ Lacie
Big Pond Farm Thank you Lacie, I guess it's also used in the Garden, and speeds up the compost bin
Thank you so much for bringing this plant to my attention
Yes great for compost, you can feed it to your chickens, and other livestock as well. Great chop and drop fertilizer and it is even better fertilizer when you make a tea out of it.
Big Pond Farm This plant is amazing, a real do all type of plant
Lacie I am getting ready to make this...but am using dehydrated comfrey....how much should I use?
I'm glad that you are using dehydrated comfrey! It will be more shelf stable and last longer. I would fill my jar to about 1/3 to 1/2 with dried herb and then fill the jar up with oil. If you don't want to fill the entire jar you just need to make sure the oil is covering the herb by an inch or a little more. In the video I left my crock pot on low overnight and I should have just turned it either to warm or just turned it off. When I woke up in the morning the water was boiling so my infused oil was not as good as it could have been. I hope this makes sense Pam. Let me know if you have any other questions. ~ Lacie
Makes perfect sense...low to heat up and warm for the duration. Thank you for responding so fast Lacie!!! Appreciate your info!!
You are very welcome! I'm up working on another video. lol
Would it not be equally as well to use fresh, indoor dried comfrey leaves, to make your heated comfrey oil infusion?
Comfrey makes a great liquid fertilizer for the garden but whoa is it smelly.
You are so right!
Awesome
Thank you! ~ Lacie
I enjoyed this !,
Thank you Diane! ~ Lacie
Nice video
Thank you! I am glad that you liked it. ~ Lacie
Just found you on UA-cam and love this video! I just planted some comfrey in my herb bed and it's growing awesome! Can't wait to try this infusion! I'm also a soap maker and may make a soap with this...love the green color of the oil! Now I have to go subscribe to your channel and watch more videos!! Love the sound of the rain on your roof, too!
love u guys
Thank you Bj! We love all the support you bring to us through your comments on our channel. We hope you are doing well! ~ Lacie
I might have to check if Baker Creek has some comfrey seeds for me.
I know for sure that they sell Comfrey seeds! Thanks for watching Mary!
I would like an email version of the comphrey recipe. Thank you!
Why refined and not virgin coconut oil?
Devin you can definitely use virgin coconut oil, olive oil, etc.. I just used what I had at the moment. Thanks for watching! ~ Lacie
Are you in the south its to green there for up here.
I actually shot the video for this at the end of August when everything was still nice and green. Right now it looks like winter. ~ Lacie
Do you know a good source for comfrey plants?
Sue Ellen I haven't ever bought any but I did find this website that sells live plants. www.nantahala-farm.com/comfrey-order-easy-s.shtml Sorry I couldn't be more helpful! ~ Lacie