Herbarium: Comfrey - Golden herb for blood vessels and blood

Melilotus officinalis, also known as sweet alfalfa, is a perennial herb of the legume family, native to Europe and western Asia, which commonly grows in meadows and meadows. It is a biennial herb up to one and a half metres tall with yellow flowers on short stalks arranged in racemes. The fruit is an ovoid pod, about 4 mm long. The main medicinal parts are the flowers and the aerial parts of the plant.

Comfrey contains mainly coumarin glycosides, bitter substances, tannins, mucilages, flavones, saponins, essential oil. The main active substances are cumarins and its derivatives, which have an effect on the vascular system. Cumarine is a substance that, when used in the correct dosage, promotes normal blood flow and vascular health, but can be toxic when overused, so it is important to follow the recommended dosage.

The commissure is mainly used in venous diseases, improves blood microcirculation, increases the elasticity of blood vessels and reduces their fragility. It helps to relieve the feeling of heavy legs, cures varicose veins, hemorrhoids, susceptibility to bruising, etc. Komonice reduces blood clotting, which is used in the treatment and prevention of thrombosis and resulting embolisms. Last but not least, comfrey is suitable for tea mixtures against cough, asthma, bronchitis. Anticonvulsant and anti-inflammatory action is also reported. It also helps with migraines and headaches.
For insomnia, it is administered at bedtime as a hypnotic. When used externally, it is useful for washing ulcers, tibial ulcers, hemorrhoids, inflammation of the eyelids.

Safety notice: It is not recommended to exceed the recommended dosage due to the coumarin content and in bleeding disorders or when taking anticoagulants.

Thanks to clearly defined EU permitted health claims, its use is safe and scientifically sound as long as the recommended dosage is followed.

In Diochi products you will find it in bioinformation capsules TROMBOSERIN Multivitamin, which are designed for blood regeneration, proper thermoregulation of the body, and thanks to a large number of other phytonutrients and vitamins for cellular nutrition of the whole organism.

This article was published with the kind permission of of the magazine Sphere

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