Using comfrey for ulcers

contributed by Ethnomedica 18 Jan | 15:19

My cousin had an ulcer on her leg from her ankle to knee. Ointment from the doctor did her no good. Someone told her to bathe the leg with comfrey – boiling the leaves – bathe two or three times a day. In just over a week it had gone down to [the size of] a postage stamp

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From Cumbria (UK) in the 1980s

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