Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
COMFREY
comfrey, healing herb
(noun) leaves make a popular tisane; young leaves used in salads or cooked
comfrey, cumfrey
(noun) perennial herbs of Europe and Iran; make rapidly growing groundcover for shaded areas
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
comfrey (countable and uncountable, plural comfreys)
Any of several species of perennial herbs of the genus Symphytum, often specifically Symphytum officinale.
Source: Wiktionary
Com"frey, n. Etym: [Prob. from F. conferve, L. conferva, fr. confervere to boil together, in medical language, to heal, grow together. So called on account of its healing power, for which reason it was also called consolida.] (Bot.)
Definition: A rough, hairy, perennial plant of several species, of the genus Symphytum.
Note: A decoction of the mucilaginous root of the "common comfrey" (S. officinale) is used in cough mixtures, etc.; and the gigantic "prickly comfrey" (S. asperrimum) is somewhat cultivated as a forage plant.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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