Comfrey leaves for horses.....

[CPW]

Anyone had any experience of this?

I found this write up on them:
Comfrey leaf is best known for healing bone, cartilage and soft tissue, hence its common name "knitbone". This is thought to be due to the chemical allantoin, which is known to stimulate cell production. Can be used to calm inflammation of the gut lining and as an expectorant. Tactical appropriate use (a handful of fresh leaves per day) is unlikely to cause a problem in horses.

 

[AmyMay]

Amy used to love comfrey. We'd quite often stop on the way home to snack on a patch that grew locally.

 

[Maesfen]

It's also very good if you wrap legs in it and bandage.

 

[kellyeaton]

i have never given them orally but i do massage them in to sore or brusied areas externerally!

 

[WoodysMum]

Fed it to my very fussy boy, but I ran out! He loved it though. I fed it to help with his pelvis problems.

 

[hussar]

Also soaking the leaves in water produces a gentle natural disinfectant for washing wounds etc.

I've never tried feeding it and we have huge amounts here. Thanks for the tip.

 

[Birker2020]

I have used comfrey for my horse who had a chipped bone in his leg. We had an excellent shop by where I live which was a 'health food shop' (its since shut down) and they had jars and jars of various herbs for sale, where you could buy it weighed out for you. I have bought dried valerian (really smelly stuff) for calming my horse before being turned out after weeks on box rest (excellent result), I have also bought spearmint and peppermint at a third of the price it would have cost me at the saddlery shop and just shoved it into the old shop bought mint container. You can get loads of info of the internet about herbs and their uses. Anytime my horse has had a problem I have used herbs - I think you can get excellent results from them.