Elder fruit medicinal properties. With heat treatment. Infusion for douching

Black elder belongs to the class of deciduous shrubs, or small trees, not more than 10 meters high, but not less than three. It belongs to the adox family. The crown of these plants is round, the bark of the trunks of old trees is covered with cracks, with deep grooves, the color is brown-ash.

The color of young shoots is much darker, with multiple lenticels, they themselves are fleshy and have a white core inside, rather soft. The trunk in diameter is no more than 0.3 meters.

The leaves of the black elderberry are pinnate, arranged opposite to each other, with 6-7 ovate leaflets, pointed at the apex. The edges are sharp, serrated. The leaves have a peculiar repulsive smell.

Black elderberry flowers are very small, no more than 7 millimeters in diameter. Their corolla is wheel-shaped with fused petals of a delicate creamy-white hue. The flowers are collected in corymbose inflorescences, quite fragrant, and no larger than 20 centimeters in diameter. The outer flowers are sessile, the rest are located on pedicels.

The fruits of the black elderberry, according to the name, are black with a purple tint, juicy drupe berries with two to four wrinkled brown seeds inside.
Black elderberry is a shade-tolerant shrub. Reproduction is vegetative, through seeds and basal offspring.
The flowering period occurs at the end of spring - the beginning of summer, and fruiting begins in August-September.

Spreading

The territory of growth of black elderberry stretched from Siberia to the Crimea, capturing Ukraine, Belarus, the Caucasus, south and south-west of Russia.

It grows mainly in deciduous forests, much less often you can find it in coniferous forests.

Also, among the places chosen by elderberry, overgrown cutting areas, forest belts and forest plantations can be noted, among other things, elderberry is planted in city parks as an ornamental plant.

Collection and preparation

Due to the medicinal properties of elderberry, medicines are made from its parts. For blanks they collect: flowers, grains, young shoots, bark, leaves, berries, roots.

For the greatest efficiency of raw materials, it is extremely important to take into account the time of collection of plant components. In this way:

• Flowers are collected at the peak of the flowering period - in June, in dry warm weather, for two to three weeks. After the flowers have been collected, you need to separate them from the peduncles and dry them in special dryers at 35 ° C. But you can dry the inflorescences entirely in the fresh air in the shade. The shelf life of finished raw materials at optimal humidity and temperature is 24 months.
• Elderberry fruits are used only when they are ripe, so the most optimal time for picking berries is the beginning of September. Whole clusters are cut off, then laid out in a thin layer on cloth or paper and dried in the fresh air, preferably in a draft. Only after that, the black elderberry berries are sent to the dryer and dried to the end at a temperature of 65 ° C. At the end of drying, the fruits must be separated from the stalks and twigs. Dried fruits can be stored for no more than six months.
• The bark is harvested before spring sap, so the best time to cut the bark is early spring. The bark is separated from the core, the top layer is removed, and dried in an oven at 70 degree heat. Shelf life - 3 years.
• The end of autumn is the best time for harvesting black elderberry roots. They are dried in dryers or in a draft, then ground into powder. The shelf life of raw materials is not more than five years.
• The leaves are collected in the spring, dried in the fresh air. Shelf life of raw materials is not more than 12 months.

Store blanks in canvas bags, cotton bales, wooden boxes or paper bags at low humidity.

Compound

Black elderberry berries contain substances that can have a beneficial effect on the human body, due to which the fruits are used in folk medicine.

The following components were found in the berries: glucose 2.5%, fructose 2.5%, free acids, malic acid, ascorbic acid, tannins 0.3%, hydrocyanic acid, benzaldehyde. Black elderberry leaves contain vitamin A.

In the inflorescences, during the study, the following elements were found: malic acid, acetic and valeric acids, an analogue of a paraffin substance, essential oil, terpene, glucoside, rutin.

Application

Black elderberry is actively used in folk medicine. Flowers have the following properties:

• sweatshop
• Diuretic
• expectorant
• Antipyretic
• soothing
• Anti-inflammatory
• Antibacterial

That is why preparations using elderberry flowers help in the treatment of such ailments:

• Cold
• Flu
• Edema
• Rheumatism
• Arthritis
• Gout
• Respiratory diseases
• kidney disease
• Diseases of the female genital area
• climate syndrome
• Skin diseases:
• Acne
• Furunculosis
• periodontal disease
• Angina

The antibacterial effect that elderberry flowers have allows the use of flower decoctions in the form of lotions on wounds, as well as baths, poultices, inhalations, drops and mouthwashes.

Fruits and seeds have the following effect on the human body:

• diaphoretic
• expectorant
• Choleretic
• Laxative
• Diuretic
• Restorative

By means of a black berry with seeds, such diseases can be treated:

• Diabetes
• stomach ulcer
• Hepatitis
• Respiratory infections
• neuralgia
• Rheumatism
• sciatica
• Radiculitis
• Cancer diseases
• Dermatological diseases
• Inflammation in the throat
• Inflammation of the mouth
• Malaria

Black elderberry leaves have the following properties:

• Restorative
• Painkillers
• Diuretic
• sweatshop
• laxative
• Anti-inflammatory
• blood-purifying

Also, products with leaves can be used as lotions for inflammatory and tumor lesions of the skin and joint diseases.

Black elderberry bark is used:

• For kidney ailments
• For diseases of the bladder
• As a strong laxative
• Like an emetic
• As a remedy for sciatica
• As a cure for rheumatism

Medicinal compositions from elderberry roots are used for such diseases:

• Renal
• cystitis, urethritis
• Diabetes
• Gynecological
• Stress and depression
• Rabies
• Edema
• Rheumatism
• Polyarthritis
• Radiculitis

Recipes

1. When coughing and fluid accumulation in the lungs, a syrup has a beneficial effect, for the preparation of which black elderberry is the raw material. Syrup should be taken three times a day after meals, one scoop.
2. Kissel made from black elderberries has an effective laxative effect.
3. Diaphoretic and expectorant: 1 tbsp. a spoonful of flowers to insist in a glass of boiling water, soak for half an hour in a vessel under the lid, filter and drink once hot for sweating. Quadruple intake of this infusion in half a glass a quarter of an hour before meals has an expectorant and anti-inflammatory effect.
4. With tuberculosis of the spine: 1 tbsp. place a spoonful of flowers of the black elderberry plant in an enamel bowl, pour a glass of boiling water into it, cover with a lid and heat in a water bath for 20 minutes. Then cool, filter and add water to a full glass. Take half a cup twice a day.
5. From edema and for the treatment of inflammation of the kidneys: 7 grams of bark (4 grams of powder from the bark) insist in 0.5 liters of boiling water in a thermos for 6 hours, then should be filtered. Dosage: 0.5 cup 5 times a day.
6. As a diuretic and for colds: overnight, steam 1 teaspoon of dried berries in 0.5 liter of hot water. Drink warm in the morning.
7. For burns, furunculosis, hemorrhoids and diaper rash: boil 2 tablespoons of young elderberry leaves in milk, and, wrapped in gauze, make poultices.
8. For the treatment of complex diseases of the circulatory system, in case of cancer, one should take syrup from the fruits of black elderberry. Before eating, you should drink 2/3 cup of distilled water, and after eating, you need to take syrup in the amount of one dessert spoon. The course of treatment is 30 days, then you need to take a two-week break. Then the second course of admission and so on until complete recovery.

Contraindications:

• Drug intolerance
• Pregnancy
• Children under 12
• Ulcerative enterocolitis
• diabetes insipidus

A shrub from the Honeysuckle family (Caprifoliaceae) - black elderberry (Sambucus nigra L.) - has long been known to people for its healing properties: fragments of the plant were found during excavations of the sites of ancient people. For therapeutic purposes, the bark, flowers, fruits, leaves and roots of elderberry are used. The pharmacological action of different parts of the plant differs due to the different content of active substances; common is only a diuretic effect in some kidney diseases.

Biological description

Black elderberry is a branchy shrub with a rounded crown, from two to six meters high, the trunk is covered with light brown bark with longitudinal cracks. Shoots are green at first, becoming brownish-black with age. The core of the branches is soft and white. The leaves are opposite, petiolate, unpaired-pinnate, 20 to 30 cm long, have 5-7 pointed ovate leaflets with serrated edges.

Small fragrant creamy-white flowers are collected in flat corymbose-paniculate inflorescences. The diameter of the inflorescences does not exceed 20 cm.

The fruit is a juicy purple-black drupe, inside of which there are 2-4 seeds.

Elderberry blooms from May to July, the fruits begin to ripen in August and remain on the bushes until the end of September.

The plant is distributed throughout the Caucasus, Ukraine, in the European part of Russia. More often grows on the edges of broad-leaved forests, in abandoned cutting areas; less often - in the undergrowth of coniferous forests.

Collection and harvesting of black elderberry

The inflorescences are cut whole during the flowering of the shrub, until the corollas begin to crumble. Flowers are scattered on paper and dried in air or in dryers, not exceeding a temperature of 40 degrees. After drying, the flowers are separated from the corymbs. Store raw materials in dry rooms for 2 years.

Elderberry bark is harvested in spring, fruits - after full ripening, leaves - during the flowering of the shrub. The roots are dug up after the full ripening of the fruit.

When harvesting leaves, flowers and fruits, elderberry branches should not be broken, as this leads to the destruction of thickets.

Chemical composition

Each part of the plant contains various biologically active substances:

• in the leaves- essential oil, carotene, resins, ascorbic acid, alkaloids sanguinarine and coniine.
• in flowers- flavonoids, ursolic and oleanolic acids, sambunigrin glycoside, essential oil, chlorogenic, malic, valeric acids, mucus, rutin.
• In fruits- sugar, citric, acetic, tartaric acids, vitamins C and A, rutin, tannins, tyrosine, dyes, traces of essential oils.
• in the bark- tannins, choline, phytosterol, pectin, organic acids.
• in the roots- tannins, bitter substances, saponins.

Medicinal properties of black elderberry

The therapeutic effect of elderberry preparations on the human body depends on the part of the plant that is used.

• elderberry flowers have diuretic, laxative, diaphoretic, expectorant and anti-febrile effects. Medicines prepared from flowers regulate carbohydrate metabolism, reduce blood sugar levels, and have disinfectant and astringent properties. Due to the content of rutin, they reduce the permeability of the walls of blood vessels.
• Leaves and bark plants have a laxative, choleretic effect, improve metabolism and are used in the treatment of obesity. Also, their use is effective for various skin diseases, joint diseases, low hemoglobin.
• The bark is used to treat diabetes and various kidney pathologies.
• elderberry fruit beneficial effect on the functioning of the digestive system, stimulating bile secretion and bowel movements. Also, the use of fresh berries is recommended for joint diseases and salt deposition.

Application in official medicine

In ordinary pharmacies, you can only buy elderberry flowers (Flores Sambuci), which serve as the basis for the preparation of infusions and decoctions; the use of other parts of the plant is the responsibility of traditional medicine.

Infusion of flowers elderberries are taken for colds to reduce body temperature and relieve inflammation of the respiratory tract. With tracheitis and bronchitis, the infusion has an expectorant effect. It is used for abnormalities in the functioning of the bladder and kidneys as a diuretic and anti-inflammatory agent.

In gynecology, the infusion is used for douching in inflammatory diseases.

Decoction of flowers used externally for rinsing with tonsillitis, inflammation of the oral mucosa; inside - with influenza and acute respiratory infections, rheumatism, liver and kidney diseases, edema, bronchial asthma, spasms of the gastrointestinal tract.

Elderberry flowers are part of laxatives, hypoglycemic, antirheumatic and choleretic preparations, used to treat psoriasis.

flower extract is part of the complex preparations Sinupret and Novo-Passit. Sinupret (tablets, syrup, drops) is used to treat acute and chronic diseases of the paranasal sinuses. Novo-Passit (syrup and tablets) - a sedative.

Application in traditional medicine

Traditional medicine, along with flowers, uses other parts of elderberry:

• A decoction of the bark is used for inflammatory processes in the respiratory tract, hemorrhoids, constipation, liver disease, anemia, obesity, and edema. Outwardly, a decoction is used to treat burns, furunculosis, diaper rash, chronic skin diseases (eczema, psoriasis). Wet wounds are sprinkled with dry bark powder.
• The use of fresh berries is useful for rheumatism and neuralgia. Kissels are prepared from dried fruits, which are taken as a laxative and diuretic; they contribute to increased bile secretion. The use of berries is recommended for mastopathy, prostate adenoma, colds. Fruits are able to remove toxic substances from the body.
• Leaves are used externally as applications for joint pain, diaper rash, boils. Boiled in milk, they are used to treat hemorrhoids. Inside, a decoction of elderberry leaves is taken to treat gout, rheumatism, and diabetes.
• A decoction of the roots of the plant is prescribed for the treatment of diabetes and kidney disease. For skin rashes, gout, rheumatoid arthritis, take baths with a decoction of elderberry root.

Harm and contraindications

Black elderberry belongs to moderately poisonous plants: when using a large number of drugs from any part of it, poisoning occurs, accompanied by diarrhea, vomiting, inflammation of the mucous membrane of the stomach and intestines.

Contraindications to the use of medicines from elderberry:

• Children's age up to 12 years.
• Pregnancy and lactation.
• Diabetes insipidus.
• Ulcerative colitis and enterocolitis.
• Chronic diseases of the stomach.
• Individual intolerance.

An unacceptable impurity in the preparation of black elderberry flowers are red elderberry and elderberry herbaceous flowers. If there is no certainty that the harvested raw materials are collected from black elderberry, it is better to refrain from treatment.

Photo of black elderberry

Application in other industries

Elderberries are used in cooking for the preparation of jelly, syrups, jams. Fruit juice and young inflorescences are added to wine to improve its aroma.

Ripe fruits are a source of red and purple food coloring.

Elderberry is grown in parks for their decorative design. Planted near barns, it repels rats and mice. Elderberry branches serve as protection against barn beetles.

A decoction of the flowers is used to treat colds and rheumatic diseases in horses and cattle.

The juice of the fruit is used to dye fabrics.

cultivation

Black elderberry is a sun-loving plant that grows well in moist, fertile soils. Easily propagated by seeds or cuttings, it can be planted in spring and autumn. Young plants are recommended to be watered abundantly and fed with fertilizers. Elderberry is practically not affected by pests and diseases, so its cultivation in the backyard is not difficult.

The attitude towards black elder among different peoples is completely opposite. In Europe, the plant was considered sacred, it was planted in front of the house to protect against evil spirits.

In Slavic culture, elderberry is a dangerous tree, “planted by the devil”, so there were many beliefs and prohibitions: it was impossible to sleep under a tree, as you would definitely get sick; you can’t break branches - it will twist your arms and legs; neither a house nor a barn can be built on the site of an elder dug out - people and livestock will get sick and die.

Because of the properties attributed to the elderberry, it was widely used in conspiracies and magical rites. Water was poured under the elderberry bush, in which the sick were bathed: it was believed that in this way the tree takes away all diseases.

The healers of the Russian tsars recognized the medicinal properties of elderberry and used it not only as a medicine, but also as a basis for making jam and marmalade.

Black and red elderberry are perennial shrubs with small fragrant yellowish flowers. They bloom from May to June, forming small dark purple and red berries. Most often, plants can be found in parks, forests, they grow along river banks. Many people grow them as additional decorations on their land.

Elderberry medicinal properties and contraindications

The plant is of great value, has many medicinal properties. So, for the purpose of healing, recipes are used that use inflorescences, berries, leaves, bark, even roots.

Only now, before proceeding with treatment, you should familiarize yourself with the beneficial properties and contraindications of berries.

Medicinal properties

Useful properties of elderberry (black, red) have been known for a long time. For example, flowers with fruits have a pronounced diaphoretic, diuretic, astringent, disinfectant effect. Designed for the preparation of various infusions that work well for colds. With problems with the liver, they are drunk for a good discharge of bile.

Also, berry infusions are taken to eliminate edema in diseased kidneys (diuretic). Kissel is recommended to drink when constipation is tormented. If there is inflammation of the throat or oral cavity, rinses can be carried out, external compresses can be applied.

The above-mentioned folk remedies are used in the treatment of rheumatism, gout, inflammation of the joints. They effectively relieve inflammation in furunculosis, skin lesions caused by diaper rash, after burns, and alleviate the condition of hemorrhoids.

Contraindications

This plant, in addition to its medicinal properties, is characterized by low toxicity. Therefore, before using it, you should definitely consult with a specialist, find out what contraindications are specific for your situation, in order to protect your body.

Black elderberry contraindications:

the presence of ulcerative colitis or any abnormalities in the work of the gastrointestinal tract;
pregnant women, during lactation;
people with impaired pituitary or hypothalamic function (diabetes insipidus);
children under 12 years old.

types of elderberry

At the moment, scientists have discovered many useful types of elderberry, but the most common can be called: black, red, grassy.

• For red (ordinary) a sharp, heavy aroma is inherent, and it scares off obsessive flies and their other brethren. Therefore, it can often be observed near the toilet, compost heaps. In addition, the red species is excellent at fighting mouse invasion, rodents do not tolerate it.
• Herbaceous - wild shrub. Medicinal properties have roots, inflorescences and fruits. So, a berry decoction is recommended for use in neuralgia (relieving pain), as a laxative. Roots with leaves have the ability to quickly heal abrasions and other skin damage.
• Black - the most common in the Crimea, the Caucasus, the southern territories of Russia. Unlike red, it can be bought at any pharmacy.

Black elderberry and red elderberry include a rich set of medicinal properties and contraindications, so we remind you once again about the need for prior consultation with a specialist!

Black

Phytotherapy with the help of folk recipes has been helping to successfully fight cancer for many years, as evidenced by the reviews of the healed. Treatment with beneficial herbal extracts is effective and not as harmful when compared with chemotherapy.

Black elderberry healing properties for cancer:

Poisonous substances present in the composition of infusions, decoctions, are not capable of provoking powerful side reactions. Along with cyanides (salts of hydrocyanic acid), the plant contains a large amount of vitamins, natural stimulants that help to alleviate a person's condition during intoxication.

Means based on this product have a directed destructive effect on oncological formation, while not affecting healthy tissues.
The toxic components of the plant have a toxicity of class 1-2, while as antitumor drugs - class 6.

Red

Elderberry red is still not thoroughly studied. It contains useful tannins, glucose, fructose, rutin glycoside, flavonoids, vitamins, essential oil, fatty oil, organic acids, triterpenoids.

Leaves and unripe red berries include sambunigrin (a poisonous glycoside) that can break down into hydrocyanic acid, benzaldehyde.

In medical institutions, the use of the red type is not practiced. Its medicinal properties have found application only in folk medicine, which is also familiar with some of its contraindications.

The plant is successfully used in the treatment of many diseases:

• bronchial asthma;
• colds;
• bronchitis;
• migraines;
• osteochondrosis;
• psoriasis;
• ulcer;
• ascites;
• menopause.

Folk decoctions of red elderberry flowers have laxative, expectorant, diaphoretic, diuretic, antipyretic, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory effects.

The use of black elderberry in folk medicine

As for the berries of black elderberry and their medicinal properties, they are recognized by official medicine, while in folk recipes the whole plant is used (bark, leaves, inflorescences).

Syrup

Fruit syrup, which begins to be harvested from the beginning of August, is prepared by pouring layers of berries with sugar. After a couple of months, the liquid is drained and then stored in a cold, dark place.

This useful syrup cleanses the blood very well, is indispensable for those who suffer from frequent sore throats, it improves immunity, restores vision. It is also used as an auxiliary alternative treatment for certain blood diseases, mastopathy, nodular goiter, it is recommended for use after irradiation, it normalizes hemoglobin levels.

However, despite the description of many medicinal properties, black elderberry syrup has contraindications - diabetes mellitus. In this case, it is better to prepare infusions from the fruits by steaming them with boiling water.

Jam

Jam from the berries of the plant is a very tasty, fragrant dish, and also has great health benefits. Easy to prepare. This recipe is suitable for various fillings for rolls, pies or just for tea.

Medicinal properties of black elderberry:

• increased tone;
• cleaning of blood vessels and blood;
• help in the functioning of the pancreas;
• improvement in varicose veins;
• excellent antipyretic;
• longevity elixir.

Wine

There is a simple recipe to make delicious and healing wine from black elderberry. Juice is squeezed out of ripened fruits, placed in a glass bottle. 200 ml of honey is poured into 1.5 liters of juice. Hermetically sealed with a stopper, where a hole for the hose is cut. One end of the hose is thrust into the bottle, and the other into a container of water. For the duration of fermentation, the juice is placed in a dark place, at the end of the process it is bottled, stored for another two months, also away from light and heat.

Drink about 50 ml of wine before meals.

Elder black planting and care

Planting and caring for black elderberry is practically no different from planting and caring for any other representative of medicinal plants. The shrub loves sunny places. It is recommended to plant it in spring or autumn. Of the soils, it prefers moist loam, fertile, podzolic.

In the spring, a standard preventive pruning is carried out on the plant, it is advisable to treat it with pesticides and diseases. The first watering is carried out. The second spraying is done after flowering.

Throughout the summer, it is very important to maintain optimal moisture in the near-stem circles, mulch them, and remove shoots in time.

After harvesting the fruits, fertilizers are applied under the shrub and the last watering is carried out. To avoid sunburn in winter, the branches are whitewashed with lime. Warming of tree trunks with dry grass with leaves will help from frost.

Application, recipes and medicinal properties of elderberry.

For the purpose of treatment elderberry is used berries (fruits), leaves, bark.

PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES. BLACK ELDER. Important! elderberry stalk contains cyanide and may be toxic! Flowers harvested during flowering plants, bark- summer, and fruit harvested in autumn.

PREPARING ELDERBERRY. flowers cut with a knife, put in baskets and quickly dried under a canopy and in the attic, or laid out in a single layer on paper or cloth. When sprigs of elderberry inflorescences start to break - drying will be completed. Store raw materials in tightly closed glass jars for 3 years. blank fruits carried out at the time of full maturation. It is necessary to dry them in an open place and dry them in dryers at t no more than 65 ° C. Store this raw material in linen bags in a ventilated room, with drying - periodically, so as not to become moldy.

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FOLK RECIPES. ELDER, ELDER TREATMENT

INDICATIONS FOR USE OF ELDERBERRY.

A decoction of the whole plant (flowers and leaves, root) is used as a means of regulating metabolism.

Fresh berries and a decoction of flowers are used for . From black elderberry (berries) brew jelly and jam. Jam and kissel cook better sugarless, on honey or vegetable molasses. If poured apples elder flowers they retain their fragrance for a long time.

Infusion from dried elderberries(ratio - 1:10) improves bile secretion, increased diuresis, which helps the movement of intestinal contents.

Infusion or tea or elderflower appointed at , , , , how anti-inflammatory- at mouthwash, and kidneys, gout and rheumatism.

Young leaves of elderberry, boiled in honey, are used as a laxative for CHRONIC CONSTIPATION, and drink a decoction from the roots for DIABETES.

The leaves of the plant, boiled in milk, were applied to , nodes and . prepare an infusion of black elderberry flowers: one spoon st. crushed dry raw materials pour a glass of boiling water and leave for twenty minutes, then strain and take two tablespoons of Art. hot 5 - 6 times a day for twenty minutes. before eating.

Also prepared and used flower infusion at tracheitis , chronic diseases respiratory tract with a dry cough.

ELDER, TREATMENT WITH ELDER, when gargling use elderflower infusion. Can be used internally for 2 tbsp. spoons a quarter of an hour before meals.

Laryngitis – and golden mustache. boiled water

Siberian elder for colds. dried flowers brew a tablespoon with boiling water (one glass), insist 1/3 hour, decant. Infusion take ¼ cup (preferably with honey) three to four times a day fifteen minutes before meals with cold.

RECIPE OF THE COLLECTION WITH ELDERBERRY FOR A COLD (ARVI). elderberry flowers- two parts, Linden blossom- two parts, peony flowers- one part, root - one part, willow bark- three parts, chamomile flowers- one part. A couple of tablespoons of chopped collection is brewed with half a liter of boiling water, leave for fifteen minutes, decant. Drink warm infusion throughout the day.

COLLECTIVE COLD FOR COLDS. elderberry flowers- one part, tricolor grass- two parts, fruit one part one part Linden blossom- two parts. Crushed collection tablespoon insist in cold water (1 cup) in tech. two hours, boil for five minutes, after cooling - decant. The resulting broth in a warm form several times during the day - with, chronic , tracheobronchitis.

HERB DECOAT FOR COUGH. elderberry flowers, sundew grass, leaf, tricolor violet grass(in equal parts). Four teaspoons of chopped tea collection insist on a glass of water at room temperature for a couple of hours, boil for seven minutes, after cooling - decant. Drink the resulting broth in one day in several doses with , coughing, bronchial asthma, bronchiectasis.

HERBAL COLLECTION FOR COUGH. Elder flowers, celandine grass, cinquefoil goose grass, shandra grass, pine buds(all equally). Methods of preparation and use, as in the recipe above.

MORE HERBAL COLLECTION FOR COUGH. elderberry flowers- one part, fruit - two parts, - one part, - one part, anise fruit- two parts. Methods of application and cooking - the same as indicated above.

ELDER IN THE TREATMENT OF PNEUMONIA. 4 large elderflower umbrella pour half a liter vodka and insist 14 days. Take a table spoon in 60 minutes. before meals three times a day. Do not skip appointments. For one course of treatment, 0.5 bottles of infusion will be required.

FOLK MEDICINE FOR THE COLD (ARVI) RECOMMENDS:

FOR COLD DISEASES (ARVI, ARI) to maximize sweating, MEDICINAL PLANTS are used: use a decoction of elder flowers: a tablespoon flowers boil for twenty minutes. in the volume of a glass of water, decanted, bring the volume to the original - with boiling water. Take hot, two tablespoons 5-6 times a day 1/4 hour before meals.

ELDER FOR DIABETES.Polezen black elderberry roots decoction: spoon st. crushed dry raw materials are boiled in one tbsp. water in a water bath for 30 minutes, then ten minutes, cool, drain and bring to the original volume with boiling water. Take a third of Art. three times a day.

Buzina. R recommend the following decoction of elderberry flowers: a tablespoon of dry raw materials is boiled in one tbsp. water for fifteen minutes, cool forty-five minutes, decanted, squeezing and bringing the volume to the original with boiling water. Take one third - up to half a glass in a warm form two to three times a day before meals. Do the same and apply decoction for articular rheumatism.

RECIPE FOR THE TREATMENT OF LARYNGITIS WITH BLACK ELDER. Laryngitis – the process of inflammation of the laryngeal mucosa. He is treated as follows. Needed under Art. spoon dial black elderberry flowers, coltsfoot leaves and golden mustache. Mix the resulting mixture, take a tablespoon of the mixture and add st. hot boiled water. Leave for one third of an hour. Then pass through a strainer or gauze, and use when rinsing. Apply until cured five times a day, change the solution to fresh every day.
PRECAUTIONS FOR USE OF ELDERBERRY= Attention! Do not apply preparations from elderberry during pregnancy and suffering from chronic gastrointestinal disease!

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