Comfrey Identification
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2016 2:22 pm
Aloha, I have been using comfrey to make salve and treat injuries topically for decades. I have had it growing in my garden for as long as I have had a garden and consider it to be one of my strongest green allies (perhaps THE strongest). So when I started drinking nourishing herbal infusions of course I started harvesting and drinking comfrey from my garden. But the other day when I was listening to the podcast I heard Susun describe the difference between wild comfrey (which should not be ingested because of liver damaging constituents) and cultivated comfrey which is safe to ingest and I realized that I am not at all certain that the comfrey in my garden is the cultivated kind! I moved a year ago and brought comfrey with me from my old garden. It has just flowered for the first time and the flowers are a light purple color. If I can figure out how to share a photo here I will. I'd be grateful for any help anyone here can give me with identification. If I have to acquire another comfrey variety I'd like to know.