HERB - Re: Herbal Cold & Flu Care

Gaylin Walli gwalli at infoengine.com
Thu Jan 28 16:23:32 PST 1999


Grania wrote:

>In plain English, Comfrey is known to cause liver damage and its
>chemicals are known to cause cancer when used either internally as in a
>tea or externally on the skin through absorption

That's essentially what I recall. Although I have personal quibbles with
the scientific research that's been done on transdermal absorption. But
being a decided non-scientist, I can't say *anything* with authority on
the topic. The *broken* skin warnings I understand and agree with.

jasmine, jasmine at infoengine.com
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