The Chinese medicine comfrey is not perilla, perilla and comfrey are two different kinds of Chinese medicine.
1. Comfrey: belongs to the heat-clearing medicine, sweet, salty flavor, cold nature. It belongs to the heart and liver meridians. It has the efficacy of clearing heat and cooling blood, activating blood circulation and detoxification, penetrating rash and eliminating spots. It can be used for the treatment of blood-heat and toxicity, purple and black spots, measles, sores, eczema, water and fire burns and other diseases.
2. Perilla: belongs to the antidepressant, pungent flavor, warm nature. It belongs to lung and spleen meridians. It has the effect of relieving cold and dispersing cold (removing cold from the surface of the muscles), moving qi and harmonizing the stomach. It can be used to treat cold and flu, cough and vomiting, vomiting in pregnancy, fish and crab poisoning and other diseases.
Taking medication should be under the guidance of a professional doctor, do not use medication privately, so as not to cause damage to the organism.