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comfrey

Any herb of the Eurasian genus Symphytum (borage family). Best known is the medicinal common comfrey (S. officinale), used to treat wounds and as a source of a gum used to treat wool. Traditionally it was also taken internally for various complaints. Organic farmers use it to deter slugs and as a green manure. The coiled sprays of bell-like, hanging comfrey blooms are usually pollinated by bees. Common comfrey is about 3 ft (90 cm) tall, with winged, hairy stems and blue, purplish, or yellow flowers.


comfrey
any hairy Eurasian boraginaceous plant of the genus Symphytum, having blue, purplish-pink, or white flowers


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The school's wildlife garden has been created in two halves, the vegetable growing section which has produced vegetables that the children have used in cooking, and the habitat area with such plants as comfry, budleas and oxide daisies to attract butterflies and insects.
A THREAD veins on your face can be helped with St John's Wort, at a dose of 15 drops twice a day, together with Comfry Cream applied to the face, once or twice a day.
AAPPLYING Comfry Ointment to the areas morning and night should help.
 
 
 
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