Common name:

Elder tree

Family:

Caprifoliaceae

Parts used:

Flowers & Berries

Chemistry:

Flowers – flavonoids (rutin(strengthen broken capillaries/veins), quercitin(anti-histamine) and kaempferol), tannin, Triterpenes including ursolic and oleanolic acid, volatile oils, sterols. Fixed oil, containing free fatty acids; mainly linoleic, linolenic &palmitic acids, pectin

Berries – Anthocyanins (sambucin, sambucyanin), flavonoids, viburnic acid, tyrosin, Mg, Ca, vit C, iron, EO, tannins

Main actions:

Cooling Diaphoretic, Anti- inflammatory, Diuretic.

Other Actions:

Flowers – diaphoretic, anti-catarrhal, emollient- externally, alterative, anti-inflamatory, anti-spasmodic. Antidiabetic

Berries – Diaphoretic, anti-viral, immune enhancing, antioxidant, aperient, diuretic, alterative

Dosage:

2 – 6ml TID

Safety: