Make Your Own Elderberry Tea!!
Forget About Supermarket Packaged Tea!
You can use either our organic certified elderberries or our elderberry flowers to make a sensational and ultra healthy cup of tea. We love putting a tablespoon or two of our elderberries into one of our musling tea bags and the steeping for several minutes and then adding some stevia and honey sweetener. Elderberries are amazing for colds and flu.
How does elderberry fight the flu? Compounds in elderberry bind with viruses before they can penetrate the walls of cells, thereby inhibiting their ability to spread. Since elderberry is nontoxic when cooked, it is safe even for children. The hot tea from the flowers and/or juice from the berries promotes sweating, preferable adding on lemon juice and honey and is soothing for the upper respiratory infections, also considered to be anti-rheumatic, laxative and detoxifying.
Some of the active components in elderberry flowers and the elderberry fruit are sambucin, sambunigrin and potassium nitrate, along with sugars. Elderberry tea can be made by combining about 3 tsp. or dried flowers or dried elderberries in 1 cup of boiled water. This mixture will need to steep for about 10 to 15 minutes. Once cool, you can drink 1 cup up to three times a day for treatment for various ailments.
How to make Elder Flower Tea: To serve, add 1-2 teaspoons elderberry flowers to the bottom of a teacup and pour boiling water over to fill cup (or you can use a tea ball strainer). Allow to steep for 5 minutes. Strain. Add honey, sugar and/or lemon, if desired. Good for a cold or flu.
