Charles Millspaugh, in his reference book American Medicinal Plants, stated that by the late nineteenth century, the herb hung from the rafters of nearly every woodshed and attic across the nation.Ĭomfrey was also employed against malaria, yellow fever, and other serious viral contagions during early American history. Medical practitioners, herbalists, and homesteaders have left considerable evidence regarding the herb’s popularity. Other names over the years have included thoroughwort, feverwort, and agueweed. While echinacea is now the first choice for fighting colds and flu among believers in alternative medicine, Americans in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries preferred Indian Sage, now known as comfrey (Symphytum officinale) or boneset. Romanesque, author of an important work on medical botany published in the early Benjamin Smith Barton wrote in the early 1800s that the plant played a key role in halting a 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia and was used by a Woodbury, New Jersey, physician to treat typhus and other fevers. Charles Millstream, in his reference book American Medicinal Plants, stated that by the late nineteenth century, the herb hung from the rafters of nearly every woodshed and attic across the nation.Ĭomfrey was also employed against malaria, yellow fever, and other serious viral contagions during early American history.
Medical practitioners, herbalists, and homesteaders have left considerable evidence regarding the herb’s popularity. Other names over the years have included thorough wort, fever wort, and ague weed. While machinate is now the first choice for fighting colds and flu among believers in alternative medicine, Americans in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries preferred Indian Sage, now known as comfrey (Symphytum officinale) or bone set.
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