Comfrey, also known as mountain comfrey. So what are the effects and functions of comfrey and how to consume it? I'll take you to find out next.

Comfrey is used to cool the blood, invigorate the blood, clear away heat, and detoxify the toxin. Comfrey is used in the treatment of warm spots, damp-heat jaundice, purpura, vomiting, epistaxis, blood in urine, gonorrhea, constipation, burns, eczema, erysipelas, carbuncle and ulcers.

① "Ben Jing": the Chinese medicine comfrey main heart and abdominal evil, five jaundice, tonifying the middle and benefiting the qi, li nine orifices, and open waterways.

② "Bibliography": Chinese medicine comfrey treatment of abdominal swelling and pain. To combine the paste, treatment of pediatric sores and facial bluntness.

③ "Treatise on Medicinal Properties": the Chinese medicine comfrey treatment of sores, knowledge of ringworm.

④ "The Classic of Materia Medica": the Chinese medicine comfrey is used to treat the sores and rashes of typhoid fever, and it is used as a medicine to make the sores and rashes not come out.

⑤ "Compendium": the Chinese medicine comfrey for spot rash, pox poisoning, blood circulation, cool blood, and benefit the large intestine.

⑥ The Compendium of Medical Sciences: the Chinese medicine comfrey tonifies the heart, soothes the liver, disperses blood stasis, and invigorates blood.

⑦ "Jilin Chinese Herbal Medicine": Chinese medicine comfrey for constipation, blood in urine.

⑧ "Shaanxi Chinese Herbal Medicine": Comfrey is used to treat soup and fire injuries, dermatitis, eczema, urinary tract infection.

Comfrey is used externally to treat ulcers caused by heat and toxicity. It is often used in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia as a poultice to treat painful sores, sores with fresh color and pus, or traumatic wounds that do not heal for a long time.

The formula: 50 grams of comfrey, angelica, wind, rhizome, Angelica dahurica, frankincense, myrrh 15 grams each. In addition to comfrey, frankincense, myrrh crushed into fine powder, sieve; the rest of the Angelica and other four discretionary broken, another 600 ml of edible vegetable oil, with the pan fried withered, slagging; comfrey will be moistened with water, placed in the pan and fried until the oil was purple-red, slagging, filtered. Add beeswax (every 10 grams of vegetable oil plus beeswax 2 to 4 grams) melted, to be warm, add the above powder, stir well that is. Spread on gauze and apply to the affected area, and change the medicine every 1 to 2 days. It can also be used to treat burns.

Contraindications to Comfrey

Comfrey should not be taken by people with weak stomach and intestines, or with slippery stools.

Comfrey is also used in the treatment of burns. Comfrey is forbidden to be eaten by those with weak qi, weak spleen and stomach, diarrhea, and clear urine.

Comfrey's efficacy

1, the treatment of vaginitis: take one or two comfrey, soaked in oil into a purplish-red juice, usually 4-6 days after the application of the drug can be cured, and the recurrence rate is very low.

2, the treatment of pityriasis rosea: take one or two comfrey (children five money), daily decoction of a dose, 10 days for a course of treatment, after a certain interval can continue to take a few courses of treatment. [7]

3, the treatment of acute and chronic hepatitis: with the comfrey red (vegetarian) extracted from the root of comfrey dried powder as a solute, sodium hydroxide solution as a solvent, made of 0.2% comfrey injection, intramuscular injection, 1-2 times a day, 2 ml each time.

Usage and dosage: internal: decoction, 1 to 3 money; or into the bulk. External use: boiled paste coated. [6]

Note: caution should be taken if the stomach and intestines are weak and the stools are slippery. [6] The nature of this product is cold, there is heat and cool blood, detoxification, penetration of the rash, so the blood-heat toxicity, measles, rash penetration, etc., can be used with cicadas, burdock, forsythia, thorns, etc.; such as the rash and the color is very dark, was purple and dark and not red live, this is also blood-heat toxicity of the symptom, must be used to cool the blood detoxification of medicines, such as dandelion, paeonia lactiflora, ginkgo berry, forsythia and so on. In addition, the trial of this product to prevent measles, can reduce the symptoms of measles or reduce the incidence of measles.

"Materia Medica": ? Pox families with weak qi, spleen and stomach, diarrhea, unthinking food, urination, all prohibited.? [6]

Harvesting and processing: the second year after planting in mid to late October can be harvested. Harvesting with the above ground stems together with digging out, clean soil, do not wash, remove the above ground stems and reeds, bundled into small handfuls, drying can be. Generally 1500-2250 kilograms of dry medicine per hectare.

Concocting method

1, hard comfrey: wash, moistened, sliced, sun-dried. Soft comfrey: pick the impurities, remove seedlings, cut. Lei Gong Gun Zhi Theory: Where to make (comfrey), each catty with wax two two, dissolved water mixing steam, to be dry, take the head and both sides of the moustache, fine filing with. [8]

2, Xinjiang comfrey: remove impurities, cut thick slices or segments. [8]