Drying Comfrey

Here is a bit of our comfrey patch. You can see some is going to flower. We are a bit unsure about drying. For us, the easiest way to dry is in our dehydrator but we haven't seen a lot of information on the web specifically about drying comfrey this way. We keep the temp as low as our machine will go -  below 95, but we don't have a "just air" feature.

Comfrey Leaf infusion

The left jar is an infusion Kay made last night. She used dried comfrey leaves and boiling water. It sat all night and then she strained the plant matter out of it. We had about a 1/2 cup this morning. It tasted pretty bad. She added some fresh chocolate mint leaves and sugar - that helped, but its no Crystal Light.

* Does anyone know if it is okay that we also used the stems of the comfrey for this? 

The jar on the right is some catnip tea she made. She picked fresh catnip leaves (and a few chocolate mint leaves) and put them in our teapot. Then poured water that had boiled on top and let it sit for 20 minutes. It didn't taste much better than the comfrey but sugar helped a lot. I think I like the teas better cold.

First time with Comfrey Salve

I want to say first off: We do NOT know what we are doing! We are trying to learn about different herbs that are growing in the place we are renting. Once Kay discovered that we had a ton of comfrey she set out to learn about things we could use it for.

Here is a few photos of us making salve for the first time. It turned out pretty well - given the fact that we don't know what its supposed to turn out like (other than photos from the web and books). We've both used it on general aches and pains but so far its been more out of novelty than necessity.