1, the role of comfrey
(1) sterilization
Chinese medicine comfrey can repel flora, so it is mostly used to make soap. Herbal comfrey can also herbal comfrey oil, for eye inflammation and other problems can be treated with herbal comfrey.
(2) Clearing heat and removing toxins
Chinese medicine comfrey can relieve cough and pain, and has a good effect of clearing heat and removing toxins, Chinese medicine comfrey can activate the blood and reduce swelling, inflammation caused by the lungs can be regulated by using Chinese medicine comfrey to make a tea to drink.
(3) Pain Relief
Chinese medicine comfrey can relieve blood stagnation problems, women's blood circulation is not easy to cause menstruation does not mention Oh ah, or menstrual cramps and other problems. Herbal comfrey can also relieve headaches, nervous tension and other symptoms. Chinese medicine comfrey is also very effective in relieving pain problems, for abdominal pain and other problems have a very good effect.
(4) Other effects
The plant, herbal comfrey, responds strongly to humidity in the weather, so with herbal comfrey you can also anticipate whether the weather is going to rain or not. Chinese comfrey is also more moderately priced in the current market, making it a very economical herb for those who need it to regulate their health.
2, the efficacy of comfrey
Comfrey taste sweet, salty, cold. Attributed to the heart, liver meridian. It has the function of cooling the blood, activating the blood, detoxifying and penetrating the rash. Therefore, on the blood heat and toxicity, measles, rash, spot rash transmittance, etc., can be used with cicadas, burdock, forsythia, jingzhi, etc., such as the rash and the color is very dark, was purple and dark and not red live, this is also the blood heat and toxicity of the symptoms, must be cooled to detoxification of drugs such as dandelion, paeonia lactiflora, Yinhua, Lianqiao, etc., but also prevent measles, measles can alleviate the symptoms of measles or reduce the incidence of measles.
3, comfrey type
(1) hard comfrey
for the comfrey of the dry root, twisted cylindrical or slightly fusiform, about 7 ~ 15 cm long, diameter of about 0.7 ~ 2 cm, root head with stem stump, often with lateral roots. The surface is dark purple, rough, with longitudinal grooves, and the cortex is thin and slightly scaly. Hard and light brittle, easy to break, section flaky, dark purple cortex, and wood between the fissure or small round holes, the wood is more obvious, yellow-white, gas special, taste slightly sweet and sour.
Mainly produced in the northeast, Hubei, Hunan and other places.
(2) soft comfrey
For the new collection of false comfrey root, irregular cylindrical, slightly twisted, about 7 to 20 cm long, about 1 to 2.5 cm in diameter. Surface dark purple. The tip has a stem base. The skin is extremely lax, into strips of scales, often more than a dozen layers overlapping, easy to peel off into untidy strips of debris. The texture is fluffy and light, easy to break, the section is flaky, the wood is not obvious, yellowish-white, into a ring, the center has a dark purple large-shaped pith. The odor is peculiar, and the taste is slightly sour.
Mainly produced in Xinjiang.
(3) Dian comfrey
The roots of Dian comfrey remove the outer skin of the wood, also known as hard comfrey, cylindrical, about 15 centimeters long, 1 to 2 centimeters in diameter. The lower long divergent. Surface purple-brown, dark purple powder, with twisted longitudinal wrinkles. Texture hard, not easy to break, section granular, wood yellowish white and slightly purple, pith purple. Gas weak, taste slightly sour. Yunnan Purple Bark: The root bark of Yunnan Purple Bark is irregularly fragmented, about 0.5-5 centimeters long and 0.5-2 centimeters wide, with constant overlapping layers. The surface is purple-brown, the inner surface is smooth, brittle and easy to break. Weak gas, light flavor, mainly produced in Yunnan.