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| Comfrey officianalis |
Comfrey, with it's large leaves, abundant mucilage and allantoin,and high concentrations of calcium, has been used for centuries to speed the mending of broken bones and other types of tissue. A comfrey leaf or a cloth bathed in comfrey tea was used as a bandage to impart comfrey's properties to the skin and interior tissues.
In contemporary life, comfrey could be useful for some unusual foot issues as well. For example, the quinalone class of antibiotics has been found to shorten tendons in some users of these drugs. The Achilles tendon, which connects the heel bone (calcaneus) to the calf muscles (Gastrocnemius and Soleus), is the largest tendon in the body. In some people, this strong tendon, if shortened, can actually detach from the calcaneous by ripping small pieces of bone from the calcaneous at the attachment point. Soaking the heel in a comfrey tea, a comfrey poltice around the heel, or wrapping the heel with a cloth bathed in a tea may help the bone fragment reattach to the calcaneous. I also recommend a comfrey tea soak to a friend who fell from a ladder and shattered his calcaneous. Surgeons have put all the fragments into correct alignment, but his body is so depleted that it is having trouble creating integrity of all the fragments. Perhaps comfrey could help.
Important note: Comfrey can heal skin so quickly, that it should not be placed on cuts until after the cut has begun to heal from the inside out in order to prevent healing on the surface from trapping infection inside. Likewise, comfrey should only be used to speed healing to bones that are in proper alignment.
Lucinda Tear is an ARCB certified reflexologist practicing in Winthrop, Washington, in the heart of the Methow Valley.
Entry into the blogosphere. Hard to believe I am really doing this but in my 9 (Fire) year, I guess I am letting go of preconceptions of how "modern" I can be.
Lucinda Tear is an ARCB certified reflexologist practicing in Winthrop, Washington, in the heart of the Methow Valley.
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| Arnica montana |
I love to prepare plant salves and other plant medicines for the body and soul. Plants have healing properties that can transform and integrate our bodies and connect us to elemental energies that vibrate in all of us.
You can use plant medicines in so many ways to keep in touch with your basic nature. You can smell them, you can apply them to your skin and hair, you can carry them with you so that at at any time you can pause and breathe in and connect with their healing and strengthening vibrations, the places they grew, and the universal energies that created them.
Please contact me to send you a salve or create something special for you that exactly suits your needs at the moment. Do you need something soothing, calming, moisturizing, cooling, warming, energizing, toning, pain relief? Something else?
Lucinda Tear is an ARCB certified reflexologist practicing in Winthrop, Washington, in the heart of the Methow Valley.
