Hippocrates also recommended treating edema with a decoction of the roots of black elderberry. In the Middle Ages, this tree was considered not only healing, but also sacred; they believed that its fruits significantly prolong life. For medicinal purposes, flowers, bark and berries of the plant are used. They contain amino acids, vitamins, tannins and mucous substances, essential oil, vitamins E, C, salibucin, carotene, rutin, choline, sambunigrin. This allows you to use it primarily in diseases of the respiratory system, as a diaphoretic with a cold, as a diuretic. Elderberry red has useful properties similar to those described above, but the spectrum of its effects is narrower, and the berries have an unpleasant taste. In cooking, they are not used. Black elderberry is found everywhere. More often it grows among shrubs, on abandoned cutting areas. It takes root well in rich, fresh soils.
Elderberry is black. Useful properties for external use
For burns, boils, wounds, lotions or moist dressings from a decoction of shrub flowers are used. From infusions of elderberry leaves, it is recommended to make baths for hemorrhoids. The treatment of neuralgia, myositis and joint pain with its flowers in the form of poultices is quite effective.
People elderberry bark treat face. To do this, scrape off the gray upper coating from two-year-old shoots, remove the bark to wood, scald it with boiling water and apply it several times (to reduce inflammation) to the affected areas.
Elder. Useful properties for diseases of the kidneys and liver
Shrub flowers are used as a diuretic, as well as an anti-inflammatory agent for acute and chronic cystitis. They help with violations in the liver. For internal use, an infusion of flowers is prepared as follows. 5 g of raw material are placed in a dish preheated in a water bath, pour a glass of water and continue to simmer for a quarter hour. The filtered infusion is brought to the original volume with boiled water. It can be stored only 48 hours, no more. You need to drink, warming, a quarter cup shortly before meals. Among the people, elderberry was also used to treat kidneys, edema, and diabetes. Useful properties in this case were attributed to the bark of the bush. Young spring elderberry leaves insisted on honey or added it to a decoction (spoon on a glass of liquid) and was taken as a painkiller and laxative for chronic constipation.
Elder. Useful properties for colds, coughs, tonsillitis
With wheezing in the chest, lack of sputum, you can take a pair of flowers from the bush. It is necessary to fill in 20 g of raw materials with a liter of boiling water. It is necessary to drink 3 glasses of infusion per day. In this case, you can not violate bed rest. The same tool can also be used as a blood purifier. To gargle with angina, you need to boil a spoonful of elderberry flowers in low heat for 10 minutes in 0.5 l of water. Insist and strain the broth, slightly warm before use.
Elder. Useful properties in cooking
Shrubs are an excellent preventative measure against various diseases. However, they are not eaten raw. The berries can be dried, and in winter bake pies with them, cook dumplings, give the weakened sick. Jam, jam, marmalade, jam, jelly are also made from black elderberry fruit. Canned stewed fruit or berry juice can then be added to various drinks.