Comfrey oil (knitbone) 50ml

Comfrey Oil 50ml
This is made using leaves from the beautiful and bountiful wild comfrey, Symphytum officinale, that grows beside my local stream-sized river in the woods.
 
Comfrey or ‘knitbone’ has long been used as a rapidly healing woundwort, for outer and ‘all inward hurts, bruises and wounds’, as Parkinson wrote in 1640. It continues to be used for this and for cuts and other skin wounds and scars.
 
As its name suggests, it is traditionally used to help broken bones repair themselves, to knit back together, and for surface skin wounds. It is cautioned not to use on deep and any surface wounds are cleaned before applying comfrey oil, as it may otherwise encourage skin to heal over dirt and unhealed deeper tissue. Likewise, it is suggested not to use for healing broken bones until the bones are set as it may set them as it finds them.
 
This oil is to only be used externally but for information, the safety of the internal use of the rest of the plant, such as a tea made from the leaves, is debated by herbalists and most come down of the side of it being safe but, for caution, to only use for 6 weeks. 
 
I have used comfrey infused oil for four conditions, all involving bones or tissue close to bones, and believe it helped relieve each one. The first was when I broke my little toe 4 weeks before a walking holiday in Cornwall, knowing it would take at least 6 weeks to heal at my advanced age of 40 something. I rubbed this on every morning and evening, and also had a cup of comfrey leaf tea every day, and just before we left my toe was pain free, and remained so throughout our amazing trip.
 
The second was to ease plantar fasciitis, joggers heel, incurred from dancing barefoot on a concrete floor at my very good friend’s 50th birthday for two and a bit hours. The nurse was lovely but said it often doesn’t heal and then will need a steroid injection. One week later, after applying this morning and evening, it started feeling less painful, and two weeks later it was better.
 
The third thing it seemed to ease was costocondritis, an inflamation of the cartilage where the ribs join the sternum, brought about from pushing myself too much when swimming in the sea in the summer, though my pain was all along my ribs and into my back. The last for now, and hopefully a good long while, was Popeye's or student's elbow, olecranon bursitis. 
 
This is in a cobalt blue plastic bottle with a lift the top lid for ease of use.
 
All of my products are handmade with love and much thought after lots of reading. I only sell products that work for me and my family.
 
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