comfrey
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- noun
- /ˈkʌmfri/
- Specialized
- For a bold accent in the herb garden, try this new comfrey, 'Axminster Gold.'
- comfrey leaf
- comfrey root
- comfrey tea
Examples
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As with other comfreys, it will die back to the ground and go dormant in winter.
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In minor burns, applying fresh comfrey leaf or root to the area can be helpful.
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I fed the mother a bowl of comfrey tea, and it brought the afterbirth down perfectly.
Fiction book (1995) -
All right, well, I'll fix your little flower for you, but first you got to go out and pick me some goldenseal, comfrey, valerian, and plantain.
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Both the Working Hands and Healthy Feet are glycerin-based and also contain allantoin, an odorless, non-toxic, and non-allergenic skin protectant derived from the comfrey plant.
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She remembers how Uncle Sparrow quieted when Charise stirred fennel and comfrey to help women unlock female muscle gates for abortions.
Fiction book (1996) -
Research has shown that abrasions heal faster with topical comfrey relative to a placebo.
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For stitches and swelling after childbirth, a comfrey-leaf poultice was great.
Synonyms
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A plant like comfrey people use in gardens and herbal medicine to heal wounds and improve soil
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A plant that lives for many years with small white, pink, or purple flowers, often called comfrey
A plant that lives for many years with bell-shaped white, pink, or purple flowers and often spreads like a weed
A plant that lives for many years with large hairy leaves, used to cover shaded ground
Compounds
A plant that lives for many years with bell-shaped white, pink, or purple flowers and often spreads like a weed
Surface Forms
Etymology
Comfrey is linked to the plant's old name symphytum, which means 'to grow together', because people used it to help bones heal. A helpful way to remember it is that comfrey was often called knitbone, so the name reminds us that the plant was used as a healing herb and as groundcover.