Comfrey hard
Rhode comfrey has 25 species of large herbaceous plants that live in Europe and western Asia. In our country grows 9 species. Fairly high perennial herb with thick rough leaves covered with harsh hairs. Peduncles end campanulate corolla purple. Blossoms in May - June. Comfrey can meet on river banks, wet meadows, damp places in deciduous forests throughout the European part of Russia, the Caucasus, in Crimea.with curative intent using a rhizome, rather thick, short, almost black. Although this plant is called drug or pharmacy, but in scientific medicine was not used, and drugs from his pharmacy there.
Comfrey is better known in folk medicine under the title: buranchik, Bonecrusher, salnitsa chemist, and he attributed the ability to knit bones fracture and stop bleeding. In the rhizomes and roots of comfrey found a set of biologically active compounds: alkaloids, tannins, essential oils, mucus and so on.
generic name due to the application: simfitum simfuo - splice, unite.
enveloping, anti-inflammatory, emollient, hemostatic effect of comfrey is used in cosmetics and dermatology not only our country but also a number of other countries. For example, in Bulgaria in the form of compresses and poultices are used for skin rashes, sprains, fractures, external bleeding, boils, and periodontitis in the form of rinses.
Cosmetology astringent, emollient, anti-inflammatory effect comfrey. Consumed in the form of patches as wound healing, with bruises, purulent inflammation of the skin.
Other Comfrey - rough and the Caucasus - are used similarly. Propagated by seed and vegetatively.