COMFREY
I first heard about the Comfrey over 50 years ago when my mother and I were visiting an elderly gentleman who used to be a shoe maker. He educated himself and started massaging peoples feet using reflexology. He made the decision to switch careers because he noticed different people wore their shoes out in different ways. He was a practical man. We trusted him. So when he offered to give us a root from his comfrey patch we gratefully accepted it. That was my first introduction to the healing capabilities of Comfrey. My mother planted it in our garden and must of used it over the years but it was only decades later I decided to use it to help good friend. I was already working as a pharmacist in a big teaching hospital in Winnipeg when a close friend said that her doctor said her sore shoulder was “bursitis” or inflammation of the bursa. Since it was not healing and she was in a lot of pain the doctor recommended steroid injection into the her shoulder joint. The