Making Your Own Elderberry Syrup

Disclaimer.  I am not a licensed health practitioner.  This is just another post on an item you might wish to have available if needed so that a physician can treat you and your family as best as possible.  No medication, including those available over the counter, should be taken without consulting a physician.  Information shared here is for educational and entertainment purposes only.  It is not medical advice nor a substitute for licensed medical care.  A qualified, licensed physician or other medical provider should be consulted before beginning any herbal or conventional treatment.

Is there a prepper anywhere who hasn't heard of using elderberry in some form as a treatment for influenza?  Not likely.  Everybody knows about taking elderberry for colds and the flu.  But this blog wouldn't be complete without a recipe for some elderberry syrup.  If I never mentioned it, people would wonder if I had something against it, which I don't.  But it's something that everyone knows.  Like the sky is blue.  No news here.

Anyway, here's the recipe:

Elderberry Syrup
2 cups water

1 cup dried elderberries or 2 cups fresh elderberries

1 cup raw honey*

Simmer water and elderberries in a medium saucepan over medium-low heat for 30 minutes.  Remove pan from heat and mash the elderberries.  Strain the mixture using a fine strainer, cheesecloth, or even a coffee filter.  Discard the pulp.

 

When the temperature of the berry juice drops below 100 degrees, stir in the honey.  Store in a canning jar in the refrigerator.  For influenza, take one tablespoon four times per day.

*Note.  As this syrup contains honey, do not give it to infants under the age of twelve months.

 

But I wondered, is elderberry used for anything else?  Does it do more than reduce the duration and severity of colds and influenza?  One study said elderberry works for bronchitis also.  Might have guessed that.

Elderberry is reported to be effective against cancer and in lowering cholesterol, however, there just hasn't been enough clinical research.  It's been investigated as a treatment for H. pylori.
 

Links to related posts:

The Medicinal Uses of Elder

For further reading:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11399518
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15080016
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3056848/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4848651/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22972323
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3899428/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19682714/
https://www.herbwisdom.com/herb-elderberry.html

 2 december 2019