Health Benefits of Elderberry vs. Elderflower
Herbs with Rosalee
Rosalee de la Forêt
4.9 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
The elder shrub is two medicines in one! The health benefits of elderberry and elderflower are distinct from one another. Learn how you can get the best health benefits of elderberry and elderflower and receive easy-to-make recipes for elderflower tea, elderberry syrup, and elderberry tea.
After listening, you’ll know:
► When to call on elderflower and/or elderberry, depending on your particular situation
► How to brew a potent elderflower tea
► How to make your own elderberry syrup (and save lots of money at the same time!)
With cold and flu season right around the corner (at least here in the Northern Hemisphere), this is a great time to revisit all the wonderful gifts of the elder shrub!
Show snippet:
“Elderberries modulate inflammation and can be a great addition to your diet as food as medicine. They are also often used as medicine, especially as a preventive remedy at the onset of a cold or flu.” (Timestamp: 09:01)
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| 0:00.0 | Some of my favorite herbal medicines come from one plant. Elder flowers and elder berries offer us distinct herbal remedies. In other words, there's a time you'd want to choose one over the other. This podcast episode is one of my earliest YouTube videos that never made it to the |
| 0:22.4 | official podcast. Enjoy this kind of sort of replay and please forgive any references to it being a |
| 0:28.5 | video. Welcome to the Herbs with Rosalie Podcast, a show exploring how herbs heal as medicine, |
| 0:36.0 | as food, and through nature connection. I'm your host, |
| 0:39.5 | Rosalie de la Foray. I'm an herbalist teacher and the best-selling author of the book's |
| 0:44.3 | Alchemy of Herbs and Wild Remedies. I created this podcast to share trusted herbal wisdom |
| 0:50.0 | so that you can get the best results when relying on herbs for your health. I love offering up practical knowledge to help you dive deeper into the world of medicinal |
| 0:59.6 | plants and seasonal living. My goal is that you'll walk away from each episode feeling |
| 1:05.5 | inspired to start working with herbs in your everyday life. Each episode of the podcast is available on my |
| 1:12.7 | Herbs with Rosalie YouTube channel, as well as your favorite podcast app. Transcripts and recipes for |
| 1:19.4 | each episode can be found at herbs with rosalie podcast.com. To get the latest news, as well as fun bonuses, |
| 1:27.3 | be sure to sign up for my weekly herbal newsletter. |
| 1:29.3 | Okay, grab your cup of tea. Let's dive in. |
| 1:33.3 | Elder berries and elder flowers come from the same plant. |
| 1:38.3 | But when it comes to herbal medicine, they have some different gifts and uses. |
| 1:42.3 | In this video, I'll show you the differences between |
| 1:45.0 | the two and how you can get the best results from both. Okay, let's dive in. To best explain |
| 1:52.4 | the differences between elder berries and elder flowers, let's back up and take a look at them |
| 1:57.6 | both separately. In fact, let's just take a big step back and first look at the elder shrub. |
| 2:03.6 | Elder shrubs grow in temperate climates, and there's several different species that are used similarly. |
| 2:09.6 | There are blue and black elders like Sambucas Nigra and Sambucas Canadensis. |
| 2:14.6 | And there's my local species, which is common in western North America, |
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