healing broken bone

[Teenytoona]

broke my wrist saturday. thinking bone broth is a good thing to drink. any other ideas to enhance healing?

[Junegoddess]

If I broke a bone I would take a lot of CLO + butter oil, eat lots and lots of green things, put fresh broth in everything I could think of, get plenty of sunshine, and drink boneset tea. (It's called that for a reason.)

I remember reading about herbalist Susun Weed (hmmm... I think it was her... might have been Rosemary Gladstar, but I really think it was the more radical Susun) having a whole lotta broken bones. I think she wiped out on a motorcycle or something. Her leg bones weren't just broken, they were crushed, and the docs wanted to pin/screw/lock things into place for the rest of her life. She said no. She went home and started eating comfrey and drinking comfrey tea, as well as eating a lot of other leafy greens. I *think* she's a vegetarian, so she didn't do broth... just the controversial comfrey. It worked. She healed up and the docs couldn't believe it.

If you can tolerate dairy, I'd suggest a lot of that, especially kefir, because being fermented means it has vitamin K.

[estuary]

not food related, but...

just a head's up that there's a lot of disagreement about the safety of comfrey taken internally - it's implicated in liver problems though some, like Susun Weed feel that there's not enough evidence to warrant that much concern. I would suggest you read up on it as much as you can before deciding to ingest it.

Two well respected herbalists have written on comfrey and you might wish to read what they say before you consume comfrey internally. See Kiva Rose here (http://bearmedicineherbals.com/?p=426) and Henrietta Kress here (http://www.henriettesherbal.com/blog/comfrey-again.html).

That said, external use of comfrey is different. A year and a half ago I broke a toe and I used a comfrey-root poultice on my foot every evening for a few weeks (should've seen me hobbling about in the garden digging up those roots!). It was soothing and comfortable and though I had no "control" with which to compare it (you know, another broken toe to which I didn't apply comfrey), I had the sense that it was beneficial and there's a lot of anecdotal evidence of that as well.

Good luck!

[Teenytoona]

yeah comfrey is one of those confusing. my mw rec'd it to be drunk after childbirth. not sure on it, too much uncertainty. will be taking bigger doses of fermented clo and trying to get in sun.. butter oil out of my price range. am in a cast so no poultice.
do make kefir and bone broth

[moneca]

My dd just broke her tibia skiing about 3 months ago. We just continued her regular diet of 4 oz chicken broth, HVCLO, HVBO, cultured raw buttermilk, cultured raw kefir, pastured meats, pastured eggs, and other raw dairy. Her bone healed well.

[pampered_mom]

Originally Posted by estuary

just a head's up that there's a lot of disagreement about the safety of comfrey taken internally - it's implicated in liver problems though some, like Susun Weed feel that there's not enough evidence to warrant that much concern. I would suggest you read up on it as much as you can before deciding to ingest it.

I'm in a bit of information overload here going through my herbalism coursework, but I seem to remember that some of the biggest concern was about the root and that the leaf was somewhat less of an issue. Also, American Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) has lower levels of PAs where as Russian Comfrey (Symphytum uplandicum) has higher levels. I would feel comfortable taking comfrey internally, but would definitely be careful about taking other medications/herbs that could be hard on my liver (like NSAIDs, etc). But, as estuary has pointed out, it's wise to do some research on your own first.

My other course of action, besides what's been mentioned already, would be to add in infusions of herbs that are high in calcium like parlsey, oats, red raspberry leaf, nettle and dandelion leaf.