Elder. Useful properties of fruits and flowers of the bush

Hippocrates also recommended the treatment of edema with a decoction of the roots of black elderberry. In the Middle Ages, this tree was considered not only healing, but sacred, 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, salibucine, carotene, rutin, choline, sambunigrin. This makes it possible to use it primarily in diseases of the respiratory system, as a diaphoretic for colds, as a diuretic. The elderberry has red beneficial properties similar to those described above, but the spectrum of its effects is already, and the berries have an unpleasant taste. In cooking they are not used. There is a black elderly everywhere. Most often it grows among bushes, on abandoned logging areas. Well established on rich, fresh soils.

The elderberry is black. Useful properties for external use

For burns, furuncles, wounds, use lotions or moist dressings from a decoction of bush flowers. From the infusions of elderberry leaves it is recommended to make baths with hemorrhoids. It is quite effective to treat neuralgia, myositis and joint pain with its flowers in the form of poultices.
In people, the elderberry bark treats the face. To do this, scrape off the gray top coating from two-year shoots, bark is removed to wood, scalded with boiling water and applied several times (until the inflammation decreases) to the affected areas.

Elder. Useful properties in kidney and liver diseases

Flowers of the bush are used as a diuretic, as well as inflammatory remedy for acute and chronic cystitis. They also help with violations in the liver. For internal reception, infusion of flowers is prepared as follows. Place 5 g of raw material in a preheated dish on a water bath, pour a glass of water and continue to languish for a quarter of an hour. Filtered infusion is brought with boiled water to the original volume. You can store it only 48 hours, no more. To drink it is necessary, warming up, on a quarter of glass shortly before meal. In the people for the treatment of kidneys, edema, diabetes, too, was used elder. 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 (a spoon on a glass of liquid) and was taken as an analgesic and a laxative for chronic constipation.

Elder. Useful properties for colds, coughs, sore throats

With wheezing in the chest, the absence of sputum can be taken napar from the flowers of the bush. You need to pour 20 grams of raw material with a liter of boiling water. You have to drink 3 glasses of infusion a day. At the same time, it is impossible to disturb bed rest. This same remedy can also be used as a blood cleanser. To rinse your throat with angina, you need to boil a spoonful of elderberry flowers on a weak fire for 10 minutes in 0.5 liters of water. Decoction must be infused and filtered, slightly warmed before use.

Elder. Useful properties in cooking

The fruit of the bush is an excellent means of prevention against various diseases. However, they are not eaten raw. You can dry berries, and in the winter bake cakes with them, cook vareniki, give weak patients. Also from blackberry fruits make jam, jam, marmalade, jam, jelly. A canned compote or juice from berries can then be added to a variety of beverages.