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Elderberry is a recently very popular plant, widely known for its health properties. It contains microelements – vitamins and minerals, the intake of which strengthens the body, protects against infection. It is assumed that elderberry flowers and fruits have the strongest healing properties. What specific properties characterize elderberry? Where and when can you buy elderberry? How to process it without losing its natural features?
Elderberry – a traditional plant or a new fashion?
Black lilac it is not an invention of our times. It has been known in Medina for a very long time, even folk medicine used this plant, recognizing its positive properties. Black lilac its shape resembles a small tree due to the fact that it grows strongly. Elderberry flowers they are white in color, they look very decorative, although they are a bit discouraging with an unpleasant smell. The same is true when it comes to fruits – they also do not encourage the taste. However, it is not in the appearance and taste of fruits that their power lies – but in the vitamins and minerals they contain.
Wild elderberry – properties of elderberry
So what do they contain? elderberry flowers and fruitsthat their medicinal properties are widely used? Well, flowers contain a lot of flavonoids, phenolic acids, organic acids, sterols, oil, mineral salts. It is thanks to such a mixture of elements that flowers are known for their diaphoretic, diuretic and antipyretic properties. In addition, they seal the capillary walls, improve their elasticity, they are used for gargling and conjunctivitis, using anti-inflammatory properties. elderberry fruit there will be glycosides, pectins, tannins, fruit acids, vitamins, mineral salts of calcium, potassium and sodium. As in the case of flowers – this combination is also characterized by diaphoretic and diuretic properties, but also supports laxation and has an analgesic effect. Mineral composition elderberry flowers and fruits it also allows you to use this plant as a means to help cleanse the body of toxins and waste products of metabolism. It is useful in case of skin or rheumatic diseases. Elderberry is also used for intestinal and gastritis ailments and in the fight against pain in conditions such as sciatica.
Elderberry flower juice – in what form can it be taken?
First of all, remember that you must not eat fresh elderberry fruits and flowers, as they contain a toxic substance in their composition, which, if eaten, will cause immediate vomiting or nausea. Therefore, you can reach for elderberry fruits and flowers only when they are processed in the process of drying or cooking. In elderberry the basic raw materials to be used are flowers and fruits due to their strong healing properties. Blooming black lilac harvested in the spring, remembering not to dry the flowers in the sun, because they lose their healing properties. If the berries are harvested in September, then the umbels of the plants are cut only when the fruits are ripe, then they are dried and the stems are removed. In the absence of access to elderberry fruit, you can take advantage of the pharmacy’s offer in this regard – many products contain in their composition elderberry fruit or flowers.
Elderberry juice and syrup – do it yourself!
Instead of using the ready pharmacy offer in search of miraculous ones black elderberry properties it’s worth trying to make your own decoction or elderberry juice. The decoction can be prepared by pouring cold water over the flowers, boil the decoction, and then strain it a few minutes after standing and drink it several times a day, using its antipyretic or diaphoretic properties. When it comes to elderberry juice recipe, then the fruit of the plant should be mashed, squeezed through gauze and combined with honey, boiling this solution. Such juice should be drunk by diluting it with water.