Symphytum officinale
Comfrey appears in Hermetikon as an archive-backed plant entry, with references across historical medical, magical, symbolic, and ritual contexts where the source texts support them.
Identity, safety, and search aliases used to connect this herb to the archive.
Oral comfrey is associated with pyrrolizidine alkaloid liver toxicity.
Historical archive citations are not medical advice. Use modern clinical and poison-control sources for ingestion, dosage, pregnancy, and toxicity questions.
Curated archive synthesis of recurring uses, recipes, rituals, and interpretive problems.
Hermetikon's curated reading of Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) is built from 3 source-linked archive notes and 2 preparation or ritual-use entries. The strongest recurring contexts are medicine, preparations, and astrology. Each note below links back to the archive source used for the claim.
Comfrey is one of the clearest medicinal herbs in the archive. Culpeper's water of comfrey is described for broken bones, ruptures, bleeding wounds, and inward or outward use, matching the herb's historical reputation as a knitting or consolidating plant.
Dispensatory material uses comfrey as one ingredient in compound syrup formulas. This supports treating comfrey not just as a single-herb remedy but as part of multi-root, multi-bark medicinal preparations.
Agrippa assigns comfrey to Cancer in a zodiacal herb list. That gives comfrey a compact but explicit astrological correspondence in the archive.
Culpeper describes water of comfrey in relation to broken bones, ruptures, and bleeding wounds, presenting it as a historical wound and consolidation preparation.
King's American Dispensatory includes comfrey among roots, barks, and herbs in compound syrup of hoarhound.
Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.
3 passages across 3 books; strongest source: Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus.
Matched as comfrey; high confidence.
2 passages across 2 books; strongest source: The Magus (Vol 1).
Matched as comfrey; high confidence.
10 passages across 4 books; strongest source: Culpeper's Complete Herbal.
Matched as comfrey; high confidence.
Representative public passages with the herb mention highlighted and linked to archive source material.
Complete public source inventory, placed after the interpretive reading so the page opens with the most useful synthesis first.
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Nicholas Culpeper | 1653
King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter | 1854
Pow-Wows
John George Hohman | 1820
Three Books of Occult Philosophy
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim | 1533
The Family Herbal
John Hill | 1755
The Magus (Vol 1)
Francis Barrett | 1801
Clavis Astrologiae Elimata
Henry Coley | 1669
Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus
Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim (Paracelsus) | 1493
Illustration of the Occult Sciences
Ebenezer Sibly | 1784