I've been growing and using comfrey for years (internally as an infusion, a tea, and a tincture; externally in a salve, a tea-soaked gauze, direct leaf-to-wound treatments, a foot soak, etc; and environmentally as a plant fertilizer) and am amazed with this truly remarkable plant. Thank you for giving comfrey the fair review that she deserves. I'm honored to have found this channel. (Guess who's going to be soaking seeds in comfrey tea this spring! Brilliant!) Word of caution to anyone using this on wounds: Be careful in using this on deep wounds that are INFECTED as it heals so quickly that it can literally trap infection inside....at least that was my experience. Much love ❤️
In 2019 I ordered your glorious garden and any perennial her you had that would grow in zone 4. Today in 2024 I have a glorious garden! I make my own medicines, but I don't ever need them because drinking teas from your beautiful plants keeps me so healthy! I haven't had a cold or covid since 2019!
Hi, I'm really happy you made the effort and learned the plants. I was just this afternoon telling my wife that every medicine we might need is out there in the garden of diversity, especially now at height of summer. We have no excuse to be sick!
The sun is so nice on your face. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, your stories and you humor! Once I stepped on my foot wrong coming down the stairs… my sister applied a slurry (heated mash) of the plant and it was so comforting that the broken bone healing on its own without any doctor visits or wrapping.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I have heard about Comfrey but did not know exactly what a magnificent beneficial plant it is. The healing properties is amazing and a must have for ones medicine chest. thank you again.
Its fascinating that the link to this showed up on my facebook feed really just as I was marveling at the comfrey coming up in my landscaping. One of the plants is flowering already and it was just delightful to see. Great video ^_^
Grateful for your light hearted generosity and the wealth of experienced perspective and information you share. Thank you for giving words to the joy and fulfillment of living and working in the embrace of Earth and cosmos, circles and cycles, the reciprocity and interconnectedness of all living beings.
Omgoodness what a wonderful video!! As a tenderfoot crone, this is the detail and knowledge that's soo needed... I planted my comfy 2 years ago and I haven't used her yet because of fear mongers. I felt as though I wasn't knowledgeable enough to use her yet After watching another video of yours that shows the comfy later in the season, I realize I must have the Russian variety bc the leaves are so much larger 🫤🌱💚 But thank you, thank you so very much for all the knowledge you're passing along !! I'm so glad to have found you and will subscribe and be following you very closely !!
Glad i met a comfrey hippy in the Seventies. Healed many breaks and strains and much sunburn since. We imbibed the tea more, back then, but the externally applied oil extraction works very well.
Thank you so much. I absolutely love your insight on anything!!! Keep up the good work. I'm taking notes because we're going to need all this knowledge very soon.
Love comfrey ! I got stung by a brown recluse years ago. My husband chewed on comfrey leaves and we applied the paste on the sting. Healed really well, just a little scar but the necrosis stopped.
This experience illustrates the lesser-known aspect of comfrey's activity--the ability to dissolve necrotic tissue--what herbalists call a discutient--see 8:00 of the above video. I think this activity was understood from early times but lost in the fervor around cell proliferation and the general weakening of trust in herbs that occurred post late 1800's. I personally rediscovered the discutient principle when digging comfrey and finding that the roots had dissolved buried plywood.
I discovered the same thing, having been troubled every winter with hard skin on my feet that would eventually develop deep cracks. Ouch. Eventually tried comfrey leaf foot baths. The hard skin began to peel off, revealing healthy skin underneath and the cuts sealed up beautifully.
@@mikecf1 I'm not really sure why you replied to my comment. The info is in the video. Richo is highly respected in the herbalism community and I trust in his knowledge and advice. It may surprise you to know that herbalists aren't all woowoo & that the science is studied extensively. If you know of a study on human consumption of comfrey and its effects, I would be glad to read it. But honestly, Rodents consuming comfrey at a rate of 30 or 40 % of their daily intake of food is the exception not the rule. I will not base my health care decisions on such an extreme example. As always, we must search ourselves and decide to do that which we are comfortable with and accept what comes of it. Good luck to you
Thank you for talking about this ( pa ‘s) , I’ve been thinking about this very thing. I have heard so many people good things. I’m not afraid of it. Yes totally agree with you ❤
Richo! It's so nice to see and hear you after YEARS of purchasing from you and following you on Facebook. I never dreamed you had a UA-cam! I purchased Comfrey from you 4 years ago and it has been a huge blessing to my garden and all of the bees that bless my garden area. We battle with it a little, transplanting and moving and gifting it out to local farmers and gardeners. What I'd like to know is here in zone 4b what would be the best time to harvest the roots?
What a wealth of knowledge from Richo. I'm sitting here and taking lots of notes. Been thinking of growing our own comfrey after using a helpful comfrey salve for muscle aches. Excited to learn how to use it for plants, animals, and soil. Will be ordering true comfrey from your site soon! I'll have much use for it after learning from this video. Thank you so much! Please continue to make videos like these Richo. Loved learning from you!
So very grateful to find you. You are an extraordinary facilitator in sharing your life long knowledge and appreciation of never ending ceasing to amaze, Nature and Healing components and plants needs to thrive. So want to learn everything. Thank You...
hi katie, my pleasure really. not everybody has the patience to listen to my videos, but it is the same patience that makes gardening and herbalism work. richo
I would say aloe, any number of several species (see Strictly Medicinal Seeds), because it contains soothing mucilage like comfrey as well as allantoin.
I have late stage glaucoma with 2% vision in my left eye and 13% vision in my right eye although I think my right eye has gotten worse over the last 10 months. Of course, eye issue relates to octave nerve destruction/death as a result of past untreated eye pressure. I've had open angular glaucoma for 22 years and within a week of being able to see in April of 2022, 1 week later I went outside and could hardly see anything because everything suddenly became cloudy. It took me 5 months & finally going to the hospital to get a referral to see a eye specialist who said it will never get better and I will more than likely go completely blind. Currently I am scheduled for eye surgery for the right eye to relieve the high PSI as even with eye drops, the eye pressure is high. Anyway, I have lots of comfrey growing in my yard and I want to use it for various reasons...eye pressure, eye restoration (not that octave nerves can grow back once they are gone), ear ringing (Tinnitus) and a little something for my youngest grandson who has severely Celebral Palsy for symptoms of Spasticity on the whole right side of his body due to the brain damage at birth. Perhaps you have some advice.
I'm hang drying comfrey stalk and leaves upside down inside my house, I will dig up some roots and will dry those as well, and appreciate the info you gave on them with the 6 month mark of loosing it's toxicity, got bees wax, essential oils, so ya...I found your video inspiring.
I love my two Comfrey plants but after your explanation I'm not sure if I have the officinalis or the Russian one! I bought them in a nursery as Symphytum officinale but the leaves are round and huge!
Incredible story. When telling on what to use it and how, you could tell first the small, simple ways, for how long to keep it on the skin and also tell the two incredible stories with all the bones broken etc. Then we know all about it.
Is it possible or ahould I say purposeful to do a comfrey abdominal poultice for those who have leaky gut? My thought is if it could help strengthen the tight junctions in the intestinal lining?
Does traditional and Russian comfrey have the same properties? I should plant Russian because it’s not invasive right? How far away from my fruit trees should I plant comfrey? Do I have to cut it or can I just let it fall to the ground naturally?
Yes, they both have the same medicinal properties and can be used interchangeably in that regard and also when used in a garden. Russian comfrey is sterile so it will not set seed, it is propagated by division of roots, so if you don't want it to spread where you don't want it, the Russian is the way to go. Officinale will spread very easily. Plant comfrey under the crown of the mature tree, meaning that whatever tree you choose, find out what the crown will be at its full growth. The crown refers to the outermost part of where the leaves or branches reach out. Each kind of tree is different.
hi Rita, yes, comfrey leaf contains up to 30% protein and has been used for centuries as animal fodder. Depending on how hungry they are, they may eat it raw or you mat have to rub it first to make it more palatable
Nature is a gamble and germination is not a guarantee. Germination rates change all the time. How does he have any guarantee you germinated correctly, or planted the correct way or are in the right gardening zone. If you want a 'for sure', then buy the roots
I've been growing and using comfrey for years (internally as an infusion, a tea, and a tincture; externally in a salve, a tea-soaked gauze, direct leaf-to-wound treatments, a foot soak, etc; and environmentally as a plant fertilizer) and am amazed with this truly remarkable plant. Thank you for giving comfrey the fair review that she deserves. I'm honored to have found this channel. (Guess who's going to be soaking seeds in comfrey tea this spring! Brilliant!)
Word of caution to anyone using this on wounds: Be careful in using this on deep wounds that are INFECTED as it heals so quickly that it can literally trap infection inside....at least that was my experience.
Much love ❤️
Hello! How did it go the seed soaking?
What a treasure! Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
Love your videos and blog!
Plants aren’t invasive, they’re just benefiting nature, we’re invasive!
We are not invasive, our creator put us all together to work together 🌱🙏
@@Reality-50sright!
This is great. Thank you for going so much into detail.
In 2019 I ordered your glorious garden and any perennial her you had that would grow in zone 4. Today in 2024 I have a glorious garden! I make my own medicines, but I don't ever need them because drinking teas from your beautiful plants keeps me so healthy! I haven't had a cold or covid since 2019!
Hi, I'm really happy you made the effort and learned the plants. I was just this afternoon telling my wife that every medicine we might need is out there in the garden of diversity, especially now at height of summer. We have no excuse to be sick!
The sun is so nice on your face. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, your stories and you humor!
Once I stepped on my foot wrong coming down the stairs… my sister applied a slurry (heated mash) of the plant and it was so comforting that the broken bone healing on its own without any doctor visits or wrapping.
I watch these twice and take notes so I just want to say thank you again for all that you do.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I have heard about Comfrey but did not know exactly what a magnificent beneficial plant it is. The healing properties is amazing and a must have for ones medicine chest. thank you again.
Its fascinating that the link to this showed up on my facebook feed really just as I was marveling at the comfrey coming up in my landscaping. One of the plants is flowering already and it was just delightful to see. Great video ^_^
Grateful for your light hearted generosity and the wealth of experienced perspective and information you share. Thank you for giving words to the joy and fulfillment of living and working in the embrace of Earth and cosmos, circles and cycles, the reciprocity and interconnectedness of all living beings.
I needed that! Found you looking for Comfrey.
Amazing. I used comfrey for years in my commercial meat rabbitry. Soil improvement is outstanding, also.
Yeah, I would happily grow comfrey for the soil improvement alone. 🙂
I agree, nothing like comfrey for rabbits, cures the scours like nothing else
Omgoodness what a wonderful video!! As a tenderfoot crone, this is the detail and knowledge that's soo needed...
I planted my comfy 2 years ago and I haven't used her yet because of fear mongers. I felt as though I wasn't knowledgeable enough to use her yet
After watching another video of yours that shows the comfy later in the season, I realize I must have the Russian variety bc the leaves are so much larger 🫤🌱💚
But thank you, thank you so very much for all the knowledge you're passing along !! I'm so glad to have found you and will subscribe and be following you very closely !!
Richo sells seeds from the website
Thank you, Richo, for all the helpful information you shared along with joy and hope! You and your videos and your writing are always a joy!
Glad i met a comfrey hippy in the Seventies. Healed many breaks and strains and much sunburn since.
We imbibed the tea more, back then, but the externally applied oil extraction works very well.
Thank you so much. I absolutely love your insight on anything!!! Keep up the good work. I'm taking notes because we're going to need all this knowledge very soon.
Loved this the ending was awsome much love and appreciation
I could watch you all day, thank you for your wealth of knowledge and wisdom!
Love comfrey ! I got stung by a brown recluse years ago. My husband chewed on comfrey leaves and we applied the paste on the sting. Healed really well, just a little scar but the necrosis stopped.
This experience illustrates the lesser-known aspect of comfrey's activity--the ability to dissolve necrotic tissue--what herbalists call a discutient--see 8:00 of the above video. I think this activity was understood from early times but lost in the fervor around cell proliferation and the general weakening of trust in herbs that occurred post late 1800's. I personally rediscovered the discutient principle when digging comfrey and finding that the roots had dissolved buried plywood.
I discovered the same thing, having been troubled every winter with hard skin on my feet that would eventually develop deep cracks. Ouch. Eventually tried comfrey leaf foot baths. The hard skin began to peel off, revealing healthy skin underneath and the cuts sealed up beautifully.
Brilliant information!! Thanks for sharing ✌️
I will fix this recommendation in my mind. Use the leaf internally and keep the root for external use. Thank you so much !
Please don't use comfrey internally. Search out the dangers of ingesting comfrey. The risks far outweigh the benefits.
@@mikecf1 I'm not really sure why you replied to my comment. The info is in the video. Richo is highly respected in the herbalism community and I trust in his knowledge and advice.
It may surprise you to know that herbalists aren't all woowoo & that the science is studied extensively. If you know of a study on human consumption of comfrey and its effects, I would be glad to read it.
But honestly, Rodents consuming comfrey at a rate of 30 or 40 % of their daily intake of food is the exception not the rule. I will not base my health care decisions on such an extreme example.
As always, we must search ourselves and decide to do that which we are comfortable with and accept what comes of it.
Good luck to you
Love your presentation ❤ ! Thanks a lot brother! Great inspiration! Inspiration is the language of Light ! Greetings from Auckland
Thank you for talking about this ( pa ‘s) , I’ve been thinking about this very thing. I have heard so many people good things. I’m not afraid of it. Yes totally agree with you ❤
Richo! It's so nice to see and hear you after YEARS of purchasing from you and following you on Facebook. I never dreamed you had a UA-cam! I purchased Comfrey from you 4 years ago and it has been a huge blessing to my garden and all of the bees that bless my garden area. We battle with it a little, transplanting and moving and gifting it out to local farmers and gardeners.
What I'd like to know is here in zone 4b what would be the best time to harvest the roots?
A pleasure listening to your insights and care for the plantworld. Thanks for sharing this.
Wonderful information thank you stay blessed
What a wealth of knowledge from Richo. I'm sitting here and taking lots of notes. Been thinking of growing our own comfrey after using a helpful comfrey salve for muscle aches. Excited to learn how to use it for plants, animals, and soil. Will be ordering true comfrey from your site soon! I'll have much use for it after learning from this video. Thank you so much! Please continue to make videos like these Richo. Loved learning from you!
thx. for the education😊. please continue sharing your wisdom
So very grateful to find you. You are an extraordinary facilitator in sharing your life long knowledge and appreciation of never ending ceasing to amaze, Nature and Healing components and plants needs to thrive.
So want to learn everything.
Thank You...
hi katie, my pleasure really. not everybody has the patience to listen to my videos, but it is the same patience that makes gardening and herbalism work. richo
Thanks for doing these videos
True Thank You ❤ for , YOUR WISDOM SHARING OF YOUR PEACEFUL TREASURES, the comfrey plants knowledge.
I really enjoy your woodpile Gulliver travels analogies thank you
Thank you, Richo, for passing along the knowledge.
Asteroid - gotcha! LOL sooooooooo good! Thank you so much for sharing!!!
Beautiful
I would love to know what is the best substitute for tropics?
I would say aloe, any number of several species (see Strictly Medicinal Seeds), because it contains soothing mucilage like comfrey as well as allantoin.
Great Show , with a surprise ending , thanks so much .
Thank you for all the seeds. Excited to see what we get this season! Glad I found your channel too❣️
Much love to you Richard. THANK YOU!
CAN you use comfrey if you have a fatty liver?
Great video. Thanks for all the information.
Thank you ,thank you. Thank you so much to God , I find your plants!
I am following your Channal!, from Florida. Many thanks.
So much goodness in here from all perspectives! Much aroha for putting this together 💝
Thank you for all the info ! I just found your Online Store :) I will be ordering for sure!!
Guess you aint selling :( can't find it
I have late stage glaucoma with 2% vision in my left eye and 13% vision in my right eye although I think my right eye has gotten worse over the last 10 months. Of course, eye issue relates to octave nerve destruction/death as a result of past untreated eye pressure. I've had open angular glaucoma for 22 years and within a week of being able to see in April of 2022, 1 week later I went outside and could hardly see anything because everything suddenly became cloudy. It took me 5 months & finally going to the hospital to get a referral to see a eye specialist who said it will never get better and I will more than likely go completely blind. Currently I am scheduled for eye surgery for the right eye to relieve the high PSI as even with eye drops, the eye pressure is high. Anyway, I have lots of comfrey growing in my yard and I want to use it for various reasons...eye pressure, eye restoration (not that octave nerves can grow back once they are gone), ear ringing (Tinnitus) and a little something for my youngest grandson who has severely Celebral Palsy for symptoms of Spasticity on the whole right side of his body due to the brain damage at birth. Perhaps you have some advice.
I'm hang drying comfrey stalk and leaves upside down inside my house, I will dig up some roots and will dry those as well, and appreciate the info you gave on them with the 6 month mark of loosing it's toxicity, got bees wax, essential oils, so ya...I found your video inspiring.
your videos are packed with so much helpful information. Thank you so much for sharing.
my pleasure
I love my two Comfrey plants but after your explanation I'm not sure if I have the officinalis or the Russian one! I bought them in a nursery as Symphytum officinale but the leaves are round and huge!
❤ I so enjoy your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🙏
my pleasure
Incredible story. When telling on what to use it and how, you could tell first the small, simple ways, for how long to keep it on the skin and also tell the two incredible stories with all the bones broken etc. Then we know all about it.
studio.ua-cam.com/users/videoR4EycA7hTmg/edit
Heard of this plant, but that's about the extent of my knowledge prior to watching this video. Will be adding it to my next order.
Is it possible or ahould I say purposeful to do a comfrey abdominal poultice for those who have leaky gut? My thought is if it could help strengthen the tight junctions in the intestinal lining?
hi tara, herbalists usually approach this syndrome with prebiotics followed by probiotics--the intestinal immunity approach. richo
Good video.
Does traditional and Russian comfrey have the same properties? I should plant Russian because it’s not invasive right? How far away from my fruit trees should I plant comfrey? Do I have to cut it or can I just let it fall to the ground naturally?
Yes, they both have the same medicinal properties and can be used interchangeably in that regard and also when used in a garden. Russian comfrey is sterile so it will not set seed, it is propagated by division of roots, so if you don't want it to spread where you don't want it, the Russian is the way to go. Officinale will spread very easily. Plant comfrey under the crown of the mature tree, meaning that whatever tree you choose, find out what the crown will be at its full growth. The crown refers to the outermost part of where the leaves or branches reach out. Each kind of tree is different.
@@BlackRockFarm thank you SO much!
Thanks 🙏
Can I give it to cattle and chickens?
Yes! and they are healthier for it
Do you sell starts?
Might I ask everyone, can you feed comfrey leaves to rabbits, turkeys, ducks, geese, and chickens? Thank you.
hi Rita, yes, comfrey leaf contains up to 30% protein and has been used for centuries as animal fodder. Depending on how hungry they are, they may eat it raw or you mat have to rub it first to make it more palatable
@@StrictlyMedicinalLLC Thank you so much for your quick response! GOD bless
Recipe for comfrey salve minus the liquor I don't use liquor in anyting
thank you
Where can I purchase true comfrey
strictlymedicinalseeds.com/product/comfrey-true-symphytum-officinalis-crown-cutting-root-organic/
Namaste
Has anyone had creative healing to regrow cartilage?? Please help/comment if you know anything about this
Hey can we safely have this around catz7 and Dawgs67?
cats and dogs don't mind comfrey, it doesn't hurt them
Why do you refuse to credit orders where the germination was zero?
Nature is a gamble and germination is not a guarantee. Germination rates change all the time. How does he have any guarantee you germinated correctly, or planted the correct way or are in the right gardening zone. If you want a 'for sure', then buy the roots
@@BlackRockFarm If I was arrogant like you I would think that poor germination is normal. I do know that every seed packet I buy results in plants.
😂 a comfrey witcher!
💖 t.y.
RICHO
You don’t have are great red clay it would take a back hoe in are soil
the cure for clay is compost
I love learning more. What a blessing I'm learning much more . Thank you
What a great source of knowledge ! Thank you for Blessing us ! 🪴👍💕