I grew up with a comfey plant and my mom used it for wounds and made fresh hot tea for us to drink every morning. We were the healthiest kids in town. So now as usual I feed it to my kids who are now teens teenagers and young adults. It has a mild flavor and pleasant to drink. My middle daughter has juvenile arthritis with all kinds of joint pain. We use the root on the joints and the leaves as tea in the body. Has helped her out beyond what I could tell. If you're afraid of the false not studied stuff on the net, you're missing out. The only studies ever done on comfey involved rats who were given more than their body weight. Rats can't have chocolate, humans can