COLUMNISTS From yarb docs to Pekin
Posted: August 30, 2009 at 4:20 a.m.
Over the weekend as I was planting some comfrey in my garden, my thoughts turned to the role herbs such as comfrey played in the medical treatment of our ancestors. That thought, in turn, caused me to be grateful for living in an age when we do not have to depend on yearly purgatives or bitter slippery elm bark tea to treat our ills.
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Editorial, Pages 80 on 08/30/2009
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