What is Black Elderberry

Black elderberry is also known as big elderberry and fair elderberry, and its application scope is mainly in the pharmaceutical industry. Black elderberry has many functions and effects, such as promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, relieving pain, treating low back pain, and curing rubella. Black elderberry can be applied externally or taken orally. It needs to be used according to the patient's condition. Before use, it can be carried out according to the specific guidance of a reliable doctor.

The effects and benefits of elderberry

Stem (Elderberry): sweet, bitter, neutral. Dispel wind, clear away heat and dampness, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and relieve pain. It is used for rheumatism, muscle and bone pain, back pain, edema, urticaria, urticaria, fainting after childbirth, swelling and pain caused by falls, fractures, and bleeding from trauma.

Root or root bark (elderberry root): sweet, flat. It is used for rheumatoid arthritis, phlegm, edema, diarrhea, jaundice, bruises and burns.

Leaves (Elderleaf): Bitter, Cool. Promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, and relieve pain. Used for bruises, fractures, rheumatism, and pain in bones and tendons.

Flowers (elderflower): used to induce sweating and promote urination.

How and how much to use elderberry

Oral use: decoction, 15-30g; or made into pills or powder.

External application: mash and apply as appropriate; decoct in water for fumigation and washing; grind into powder and sprinkle; or boil into paste and apply.

Elderberry taboos

Pregnant women should avoid taking this medicine. "Pin Hui Jing Yao": "Taking too much will make you vomit."

Is elderberry poisonous?

Non-toxic.

Elderberry Recipe

1. Treat rheumatoid arthritis and gout.

120g fresh elderberry from the waist, 120g fresh tofu. Add water and rice wine as needed and stew. (Jiangxi Province "Handbook of Herbal Medicine")

15g expanded elderberry and 10g mulberry branch. Decoction in water. (Hebei Chinese Herbal Medicine)

2. Treat edema caused by nephritis. 9-15g of elderberry, decocted in water. (Commonly used Chinese herbal medicines in Shanghai)

3. Treat dampness on the feet. Take 60g of the whole plant of Sambucus nigra, decoct it in water and use it for fumigation and washing. (Hunan Pharmacopoeia)

4. Treat bruises and fractures.

One liang of elderberry for the waist, half a qian of good frankincense, one liang each of red peony root, Chuanxiong, Notopterygium wilfordii, and natural copper. Grind the above ingredients into powder, add 4 liang of yellow wax to the powder, stir, and when it is soft, make balls as big as longan. If a warrior has injured bones and tendons or suffered sprains and is in unbearable pain, take one pill of the medicine and soak it in a cup of good old ash-free wine. Wait until the medicine soaks away and sip it while it is hot. The pain will stop. (Continuation of the original story)