CAPSULE 1
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Section 2: Room 3
Station 2
Dried Comfrey ~ EXTRACTION METHODS
UNLOCKING COMFREY'S BENIFITS.
INFUSION
To access the health and beauty benefits of Comfrey the dried leaves must be soaked in a liquid. The soaking process causes the valuable mineral and chemical compound properties to be extracted from the leaves and deposited - infused - into the liquid. The type of liquid and the extraction method that you choose will depend on the specific product and purpose you are trying to achieve.
MINERAL EXTRACTION LIQUIDS
WATER
for BODY SOAK "TEA"
Dry Comfrey (and Fresh Comfrey) can be steeped or infused in water for various uses such as: a relaxing body soak, a compress, or for use in a poultice. When preparing a "tea" for body soaks, the process is different from traditional methods used to make Plant "Tea" Fertilizer where the leaves are left to decompose over weeks. Instead, the dried or fresh leaves are steeped in warm to hot water for a shorter period of time, typically 15 to 120 minutes, to extract their beneficial properties without rotting the plant material. The longer you steep the tea, the higher its mineral density becomes.
To fully extract all of the leaves available minerals the leaves may be used for more than one steeping session . Even then the leaf remains contain traces amounts of beneficial mineral material and may be chopped and recycled into the soil as an amender for your flower pots or your garden plot.
