Quick guide: using black elderberry

Shrubs such as black elderberry, which are quite popular and often found among elderberries (of which there are more than ten species), are quite useful and medicinal. Consider its instructions for use and the main medicinal properties.

Elderberry fruits and flowers have the following medicinal properties:

  • diuretic;
  • well absorbed in chronic pancreatitis;
  • gastric and lactogenic properties.

The use of black elderberry for female diseases is quite widely used, because it is this type of elderberry that contains carotenoids and mucus. In this case, not only the fruits are useful for taking, but also flowers, and the root and leaves can be brewed as an infusion and decoction.

For colds, black elderberry is a diaphoretic, antipyretic and expectorant agent, which is quite useful when used during a period of weakened immunity. With diabetes mellitus, it is often advised to patients, since its decoction of the roots has a truly miraculous therapy (essential oils, phytosterols, choline).

Also, the use of black elderberry on skin diseases is in great demand and popularity, since it has amazing healing qualities in flowers, with the help of their decoction, burns, inflammation, diaper rash and abscesses can be treated.

There are practically no contraindications for black elderberry, the main thing is not to abuse it, not to use it during pregnancy and lactation, and also not to use it for colitis and Crohn's disease. In general, the use of this type of elderberry is an effective and popular remedy, especially in traditional medicine and in modern medicine.