Comfrey is a common plant.......it is the king of bio-accumulators....meaning it sucks up nutes and minerals out of the earth, and stores them in their leaves......it also contains high levels of allantoin. “The chief healing element in comfrey is allantoin, a cell proliferant which promotes the granulation and formation of epithelial cells.” A more simplified explanation is that allantoin “has the property of multiplying healthy cells and not malignant ones.” Comfrey contains from 0.6 to 0.8 per cent allantoin........in other words it helps in the formation of healthy cells in regards to growth and healing of damaged cells.
Comfrey has a series of taproots that extend deep down into the soil comfrey is able to extract and accumulate large quantities of potassium (around 7%) and to a lesser extent phosphorous (around 1%), calcium (around 3%), magnesium and other trace elements.
The comfrey leaves act as storage bins for the cache of extracted minerals. The resulting proportions of minerals stored make for a well-balanced, readily available form of fertiliser that’s ideal for many of our most popular crops such as potatoes,onions, tomatoes and citrus fruit.
The comfrey leaves themselves have so little fiber and so much protein, resulting in a carbon to nitrogen ratio of 14:1, that they will break down rapidly when harvested.
For this reason comfrey has been referred to as `Instant Compost’
i used to make comfrey sludge, but it stinks like a motherfucker, so now i just bubble it as a powder, and in a matter of hours becomes really slimey in a good way.....