Bulk Herbs: Elder flowers - cut

Excerpts from The ABC Herbal

The great herbalist, Edward Shook, says the following about the combination of elder flowers and peppermint in his Advanced Treatise in Herbology.

“For the treatment of colds, influenza, and fevers of all kinds, there is no remedy known to man that is so safe, sure and speedy as elder flowers, an all-around alterative, blood purifier, and general systemic cleanser. They are without a superior.

Because elder flowers are emetic and somewhat nauseating to some people, the ideal synergist to blend with them in the treatment of colds, fevers, and so fort is peppermint. Peppermint is a stimulant, nervine, calmative, and antiemetic, and the combination is world-famed as the greatest fever remedy ever known to man.”

Considering that right after the last World War, upwards of six million people died of influenza and that millions have died since, is it not a very great privilege and blessing to be in possession of the knowledge of such a remedy? Herbalist, Henry Box of Plymouth, England, says,

“For colds, influenza, fevers, inflammation of the brain, pneumonia (inflammation of the lungs), stomach, bowels or any part, this is a certain cure, I have never known it to fail, even when given up and at the point of death. It will not only save at the eleventh hour, but at the last minute of that hour. It is so harmless that you cannot use it amiss, and so effectual that you cannot give it in vain.”

Both elder flower and elderberries contain substances which ease inflammation and pain.

Excerpts from Practical Herbalism

The flowers were used by our forefathers in bronchial and pulmonary affections, and in scarlet fever, measles and other eruptive diseases. Of those, Priest & Priest tell us that they are:

“a mild diffusive and relaxing diaphoretic with alterative properties, indicated for children subject to frequent febrile reactions. Relaxing to the eliminative organs, soothing to the nervous system and gently laxative.” Preparations of Elder berries and flowers are indicated for: “Colds and flu with dry, hot skin; chronic nasal catarrh or sinusitis, dry coryza, spasmodic croup; weakening night sweats; skin eruptions from metabolic disturbance; eczema, and dermatitis.”

“In warm infusion, Elder flowers are diaphoretic and gently stimulant; in cold infusion they are diuretic, alterative, and cooling and may be used in all diseases requiring such action, as in hepatic derangements of children, and erysipelas. The expressed juice of the berries evaporated to the consistence of a syrup is a valuable aperient and alterative; one ounce of it will purge. An infusion of the young leaf-buds is likewise purgative, and sometimes acts with violence. The flowers and expressed juice of the berries have been beneficially employed in scrofula, cutaneous diseases, syphilis, and rheumatism.”

Elder flowers are a time tested safe remedy. Measure and doses are not critical. They may be used liberally in quantities sufficient “to get the job done.”

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Volume Discounts on Bulk Herbs Only

• 5 lbs. - 9 3/4 lbs. = 5% off
• 10 lbs. - 24 3/4 lbs. = 10% off
• 25 lbs. - 39 3/4 lbs. = 20% off
• 40 lbs. - 59 3/4 lbs. = 30% off
• 60 lbs. + = 40% off
• Bulk Herbs may be mixed and matched

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