Elder flowers

Description

Sureau Fleurs de L'Herbier de France is diaphoretic, which means that it facilitates elimination by perspiration, at a rate of 225 mg per day. Popular knowledge attributes to elderberry helps to fight against aggressions, especially in periods when it is weakened: end of winter, convalescence. The elderberry grows on the edge of farms, where the frequent passage of animals enriches the land. Elderberries love the ruins on which they probably grow thanks to the seeds contained in the bird droppings. It is a very easy shrub, which is easily cut, pruned, very fragrant at the time of its flowering.

Indication

Sacred tree, it became for the same reason cursed tree, tree of Judas, when Catholicism invades Gaul, and sought to impose its convictions by making pagan traditions disappear. Because for the Celts, the elder facilitated the dialogue with the deceased, apparently by means of flutes cut in its branches, from which one can hollow out the heart (the marrow). Its Latin origin, sambucus, is quite confused: the Bible cites the sambuque, which was a musical instrument, resembling the harp, sabucus was the name of the elderberry in Latin. And since we made flutes with elderberries, his name became sambucus which also means flute player ...

Ingredients

Elderberry.