| Ointments containing marigold, chamomile and comfrey are safe, as is aloe vera. |
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| I wouldn't go to a homeopath if I needed a hip replacement, but I would take arnica and drink comfrey tea to help me recover afterwards. |
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| Pure sandalwood oil soothes chapped skin and barber's rash while comfrey, calendula, and aloe calm irritations. |
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| The main use of comfrey through the centuries has been as a vulnerary remedy. |
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| I was amazed to find that the comfrey plants which were only just sprouting a couple of days ago, all now have proper leaves! |
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| Pyrrolizidine alkaloids present in comfrey tea and other plant materials are widely recognized as hepatotoxins. |
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| Slugs are fond of the white pith inside empty grapefruit skins, which make good traps, and wilted comfrey leaves are also a good bait. |
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| The herbs chamomile, valerian, yarrow, nettle, comfrey and dandelion can help make a success of your compost heap. |
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| New herbs introduced to the already comprehensive range for this year include lemon basil, pineapple sage, aniseed basil, liquorice and comfrey. |
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| It contains borage oil for moisture retention, shea butter to moisturise, comfrey and rose geranium essential oil to soothe and nourish the skin. |
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| Herbal supplements that can be toxic to the liver include kava, comfrey, chaparral, jin bu huan, kombucha tea, pennyroyal and skullcap. |
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| Some 3 percent of all flowering plants produce these chemicals, including such herbal-garden favorites as borage and comfrey. |
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| Certain boraginaceous plants have an established place in herbal medicine, the most important being borage, comfrey, and lungwort. |
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| Some readers are enthusiastic about castor oil, while both arnica and comfrey have a long folk tradition of use for bruises. |
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| Red clover flowers, strawberry leaves and comfrey leaves help to mend damaged cells, including chaffed or wind-blown skin. |
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| Himalayan balsam crowds out native plants such as comfrey and willow herb, which are both important food sources for insects. |
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| I often took over the family kitchen to brew hyssop tea and goldenseal tincture and to prepare poultices of sage and compresses of comfrey. |
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| We have been debating this formula since 1970 because the product contains comfrey. |
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| Anyone growing comfrey five or ten years ago is not growing comfrey now because comfrey products cannot be sold in this country. |
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| The standing sward of rye, clovers, and fescues is increasingly varied with herbs like dock and comfrey, which help pull nutrients up from the subsoil. |
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| Apply a comfrey leaf ointment or compress to your cut, but do not use it on puncture wounds because the skin may heal faster than the tissue below. |
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| Oftentimes, it is not the cortisol stimulating properties which are cited for their healing properties but some other biochemical agent such as allantoin in comfrey. |
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| These products often include comfrey, chickweed, echinacea, calendula, goldenseal, plantain, essential oils, and a host of other herbs in a base of olive oil and beeswax. |
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| For example, comfrey is considered a safe herb and is used as a demulcent. |
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| Also known as common comfrey, blackwort, boneset, bruisewort, gum plant, healing herb, salsify, and slippery root, this erect-growing herb can reach a height of one meter. |
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| Other plants are skin irritants, sun or not – alkanet, comfrey, nettles being the most obvious. |
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| Soothe dry skin irritations with chamomile, lavender, jasmine, elder flowers, red clover and herbs such as Irish moss, calendula, comfrey, marshmallow root and violets. |
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| And he suggests herbs to grow beneath the trees, like comfrey, which is rich in calcium and draws minerals from subsoil. |
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| The comfrey leaves keep coming all summer long, even with consistent cutting. |
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| There are bees buzzing in the comfrey, blackbirds rootling through the borders and my friend the robin singing from the silver birch. |
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| He also feeds his trees with composted wood chips, plants comfrey around the roots and sprays them with concoctions of horsetail and stinging nettles. |
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| So echimidine is an adulterant and comfrey is not allowed in the law, but it's totally ineffective because there's no survey of the market to make sure comfrey isn't available. |
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| Try elder flowers and a cough syrup of elder berries, or try an equal parts blend of mullein flower, coltsfoot, comfrey leaf and horehound. |
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| One hundred kilometres from Montreal, people can obtain herbs which are illegal in Canada, for example comfrey, to which reference was made earlier. |
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| Mulch with compost in spring and try growing comfrey nearby: it is rich in both nitrogen and potassium, nutrients essential for successful growth and fruiting. |
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| The comfrey has healing and anti-inflammatory properties. |
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| Dr. Dennis Awang: Some time ago I was reading a seniors magazine that was prescribing a remedy for treating ulcers and so forth using comfrey root. |
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| Honey bees also like thistles and all appreciate wild flowers, such as buddleja, borage, comfrey, knapweed, teasels, nettles and clovers. |
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| Large leaves of comfrey get the center position, while the stems of pineapple mint rise behind. |
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| And pregnant women specially, should avoid drinking herbal infusions such as nettle leaf, comfrey, yarrow and ma huang as they can cause miscarriage or early labour. |
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| Other legal, non-prescription remedies that can sicken or kill are aconite, chaparral, colloidal silver, coltsfoot, comfrey, germanium, greater celandine, kava and lobelia. |
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| Soil enriching earthworms, predator ladybirds, pollinating bees and beneficial comfrey plant all play a vital role in the ecological balance of the best gardens. |
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| It thrives on compost and natural fertilizers brewed from comfrey or seaweed and uses only rain, natural groundwater or wastewater purified through a system of reed beds. |
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| The peel has an aloe vera base for maximum healing and also contains bearberry to lighten skin, antioxidant green tea and anti-inflammatory meadowsweet, comfrey and chamomile. |
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| Good examples of medicinal plants introduced to gardens are motherwort Leonurus cardiaca, common comfrey Symphytum officinale, and absintium Artemisia absinthium. |
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