Comfrey

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Josh (or at least I think it was Josh),

You were asking a little while back about extracting allantion from

comfrey.

I also harvested comfrey this weekend. (Along with elderberries, jewelweed,

dogbane and milkweed, sulphur shelf mushrooms, goldenrod, autumn olives and

corn silk.)

 

Unintentionally, I made a sort of fruit leather type substance with comfrey

juice I tried extracting using my juicer. I was making comfrey oil with the

leaves but the stems were so juicy I couldn't stand to not do something new

that I hadn't tried before.

Anyhow, I got the most gooey, gelatinous glop of stuff you can imagine. I

put it in the fridge over night (uncovered) and by the morning the water had

evaporated leaving behind a fruit leather consistency type substance to be

peeled off the bottom of the bowl. I have taken it out and now it is in the

food dehydrator. It's not straight up allantion and I am not sure what I will

do

next with it but it will be fun to experiment.

 

Sharing my love and respect for plants,

Mary Alana