Comfrey: The Rise and Fall of an Herbal Legend

Herbal medicines and remedies are so much the rage today that I'll wager a thousand books are being written on the topic as you read this. Of course, all this modern fascination with herbs as an alternative to Pfizer and Merck's dream of a pill for every ailment that anyone could possibly have has about it a certain sense of déjà vu. The ancients knew the power of herbs and though they died very young as a whole, they actually managed surprisingly well considering they didn't so much as have access to aspirin. The big man on herbal campus around 400 BC an herb called comfrey. Comfrey still exists and it is still used for medicinal means, but staring around the 1970s its popularity began to wane.