This article by Fiona Macrae originally appeared on dailymail.co.uk in 2009, and it may be old news to some of you, but then again it might be new and of interest to others.
It quotes a study by academics at the German Sport University in Cologne, subsequently published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
120 people with upper back pain or lower back pain were involved. Half of them were given an ointment made from extract of the comfrey plant to rub on the affected area, and half were given a dummy ointment. They were obviously not told who got what.
After only five days the subjects who had used the comfrey ointment reported an average incredible 95% in the reduction of pain. That’s pretty amazing.
The other interesting fact was that the subjects who got the dummy ointment also reported a reduction in pain, but only an average of 35%. As I’m always saying, the power of the human mind should not be underestimated.
The academics concluded: 'Comfrey root extract showed a
remarkably potent and clinically-relevant effect in reducing acute pain.'
If you’d like to read the full article, use this link, and if you think you’d like to try it for yourself just put “comfrey ointment” into your search engine, there are several suppliers. If you do, please let me know how you get on.
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