| Here's a super simple recipe for comfrey salve recipe to utilize all that comfrey in your garden!
This salve also makes great gifts for friends and family.
I like to put up big batches in the summer and give them out at the holidays.
2 cups good quality olive oil
~ 1 ounce (about two tablespoons) fresh comfrey leaves (or 1/2 ounce dried)
~ 1 ounce (about two tablespoons) fresh lavender flowers (or 1/2 ounce dried)
~ 1 ounce (about two tablespoons) fresh calendula flowers (or 1/2 ounce dried)
~ 1/2 cup beeswax
~ Gently warm the olive oil and the herbs in the top of a double boiler for about 30 minutes. Stir frequently. It should bubble a bit at the edges, but not throughout the mixture.
~ Strain out the oil by pouring through a strainer.
~ Discard herbs and reserve oil.
~ Melt your beeswax in the top of the double boiler.
~ Add the strained oil and stir until completely blended.
~ Pour the mixture into jars or salve tins.
~ Once it is cool, label and date your creation.
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• Mon 23 Apr 2007 - <i>Untitled Comment</i>
I am starting our first herb beds here on this homestead. i hope whoever bought our place up north realized what I had planted around the various garden sections (I did actually leave several notes here and there about what was planted, and it's timing, just in case...). They have an abundance of medicinal herbs really coming into their own now. I miss that, having to start all over again, but it's well worth the effort!
Deanna
Thank you for the kind words. I have mostly planted culinary herbs in the past and I am starting to branch out into medicinal this year.
Grandma Rosie
Edited by GrandmaRosie on Mon 23 Apr 2007 at 7:05 PM