Homesteading? How We Use Quintessential COMFREY

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The Healing Salve Recipe:
Ingredients
- .5 cup fresh comfrey leaves
- .5 cup fresh ribwort plantain leaves
- .25 cup fresh calendula flowers
- Enough Olive oil to cover the plants
- 1 oz. Beeswax (you can also make this without beeswax. It’ll just be less thick)
To make purely from comfrey you can use 1.25 cups fresh comfrey leaves or 3/4 cup dried comfrey leaves or roots
Instruction
(We left our plants covered in olive oil in a mason jar in our solar oven for a couple of hours and then to sit in the sun for another 4 hours)
1. If you do not have a solar oven, you can bring the oil to a very low simmer (very important not to fry/burn the leaves) for 15 minutes on the stove.
2. Allow to sit in a sunny window in a covered mason jar ideally for 1 week.
*The longer method is to infuse the oil without heating in a sunny window for 4 weeks.
3. Strain out your oil, and combine with the beeswax while slowly heating the mixture on the stove until the beeswax has dissolved.
4. Pour the mixture (once it’s slightly cooled but not completely because it will harden) into small jars or salve containers.
5. Once cooled it’s ready to apply!
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
0:34 The plant
1:12 Comfrey suppresses weeds
1:48 Chop and drop to feed trees
2:05 It’s a great fertilizer
2:19 Animal feed
3:25 Great companion plant
4:11 Example of the liquid fertilizer
4:33 Jessica shows the salve
6:08 How to use as a poultice
8:56 You can eat or drink it too!
9:28 The end!

[@marshahack5990]

I've used comfrey leaves to heal small, damaged tree trunks. I remove the middle vain from a large comfrey leaf, mash up the leaf to make a moist poultice & fill the wound. Then I wrap & firmly press another leaf around the tree trunk to make a bandage. I use the large vain to tie around the leaf bandage to hold it close to the wound. Days later the poultice has dried, has filled the gapping wound while healing the wound & preventing insect attack.

[@angiemylius8538]

You two are so adorable, helpful and informative. Thank you for the awesome video. Please don’t stop :))

[@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia]

Positively biased mother lol thanks for your support and encouragement Angie

[@aaronperez5047]

Last year on my dad on his 70th birthday slipped and fractured his lumbar spine. Doctors said he would need surgery, but due to the backlog of a big hospital it took them 4 weeks to get back to him to schedule. During that time he discovered comfrey and applied everyday. When he went back to get X-rays, the doctor said "looks like you don't need any surgery, not sure what happened"
I have since used comfrey and many other people we know have had very positive experiences.
✊

[@thomaskahler3940]

Thanks for the video, v

[@kenbeaubien8167]

Good for bee stings and bug bites also.

[@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia]

Great! I had heard but haven’t tried.

[@robknowles6152]

Hi guys
We've got it growing all over the farm, it goes spread in our environment ( top of the south island, NZ), relatively high rainfall, the animals really love it, good protein to supplement chicken feed.
When I was growing up in the UK, my mother always had a comfrey plant drying in the pantry for sprains and breaks, she called it" Knitbone".
We've been making heaps of bokashi BTW, got myself a ATV and will be spraying it around the paddocks soon, or, should I wait for spring?
Cheers
Rob

[@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia]

Hi Rob, awesome stuff. You will get benefit from Bokashi as often as once every cut of a perennial or grass irrespective of time of year.

[@robknowles6152]

Whicked Simon, i was hoping for that answer

[@robknowles6152]

Morning Simon
All going well down here at mountain Apple Farm, winter coming on!
Just a quick question, been a bit slack getting the EM1 going, can i use diluted leachate as EM1 substitute?

[@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia]

Hey Rob, I sometimes use full strength leachate if I haven't kept pure em1. You get to know it's strength from the smell.

[@robknowles6152]

Excellent mate, thanks for your prompt response, loving the stuff you're posting