Black elderberry is a deciduous perennial tree or shrub from a large family of honeysuckle. It "lives" in the deciduous forests of the European part of the Russian Federation, in the Caucasus and Ukraine. It often grows as a weed plant in gardens, courtyards and gardens - sometimes in groups, sometimes in isolation.
Medicinal raw materials are buds and flowers. They are prepared even before the corollas are sprinkled, cutting off the entire inflorescence with scissors or secateurs. They contain a certain glycoside sambunigrin, which breaks down glucose hydrocyanic acid and benzaldehyde, as well as essential oil, rutin, tannins.
Elderberry black - application
In Russia, samovars were polished in clusters to a shine, and berries were used for dyeing. The bark of young twigs served as a means to expel flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches and ... the treatment of alcoholism from the house.
Wood is suitable for widespread use in professional turning production.
Branches can be used to protect granaries from weevils.
The plant repels mice and rats well, so they try to plant elderberry around barns, sheds, cellars.
Flowers are used in veterinary medicine for rheumatism and colds in horses.
Fruits dye silk and wool through the mordant in a variety of colors.
Insecticide for bedbugs, blackcurrant mite, gooseberry moth, raticide.
The fruits are well cleaned copper utensils.
From the fruits, purple and red food coloring is used, which is used in the confectionery industry for juices and jelly.
Elderberry is bred as an ornamental plant in gardens and parks.
Black elderberry - an excellent honey plant.
In the Middle Ages, it was revered by people as a sacred tree.
Elderberry black - treatment
Elderberry black in folk medicine has received quite widespread use. Broth, juice, infusion, baths, poultices from its raw materials are used externally and internally:
- like sweatshops;
- as a restorative;
- as an antipyretic;
- as choleretic;
- as an expectorant;
- as a laxative;
- as anti-inflammatory;
- as a sedative;
- as a diuretic;
- with ascites (dropsy);
- with kidney disease;
- with diseases of the respiratory organs;
- with edema;
- with menopause, female diseases;
- with a headache;
- with acute respiratory infections and flu;
- with diabetes;
- with peptic ulcer;
- with rheumatism, gout, arthritis, polyarthritis;
- with neuralgia, sciatica, radiculitis;
- with hemorrhoids;
- with hepatitis;
- with oncological diseases;
- as antimalarial;
- with skin diseases;
- with chloasma, freckles;
- with inflammation in the oral cavity and throat;
- with blepharitis, conjunctivitis;
- with hydrophobia (rabies);
- with depressive conditions.
Infusion of flowers
1 tablespoon flowers are taken on 1 tbsp. boiling water, insist about 20 minutes. in any closed vessel, filter, drink hot as a diaphoretic at night or take 100 g 3-4 p / day a quarter of an hour before meals as an anti-inflammatory, astringent, expectorant.
Flask of Bark
Insist in 1/2 l. boiling water 5-7 g of bark or 4-6 g of powder from the bark (5-6 hours in a thermos), then carefully filtered. Take 4-6 p. / Day for ½ tbsp. with edema, renal disease.
Leaf infusion
Pour 1 table in the evening. l finely chopped dry leaves with two glasses of boiling water, so insist until the morning (you can even in a thermos), drink warm in the morning. Take as a diuretic for severe colds.
Fruit infusion
Table. 1 tablespoon of dried berries. boiling water, insist about 20 minutes, take somewhere in 50 ml after eating 2-4 r / day for diabetes.
Decoction of the roots
30 g of raw material fall asleep in 1 liter. boiling water, put on a small fire and boil for 4-5 minutes., Insist 40 minutes., Filter. It is used for kidney diseases, diabetes, and also as a diuretic for edema of various origins.
The healing properties of black elderberry will make your life full of joy, without any unnecessary diseases!