Elder Flowers Extract (Sambucus nigra) 1 fl oz: K
About 30-40 dropperfuls per bottle. 30-40 drops per dropperful. Gaia Herb Farm receives Annual Organic Certification. Oregon Tilth has certified Gaia Farms as an Organic Grower of more than 50 medicinal plants. Gaia Herbs Analytical Laboratory analyzes every batch of every product to ensure quality, product consistency, and activity with state of the art instruments. Gaia has become a leader in herbal product analysis, headed up by Dr. Xiping Wang, Chief Scientist and Natural products Chemist. Herbal extracts are a highly effective way to administer herbs. They are very concentrated, they work faster than teas and are four to eight times stronger than capsules. Extracts are easily digestible and quickly assimilated into the system. Used as an infusion, decoction, tincture, ointment and preserve. The 1997 Commission E on Phytotherapy and Herbal Substances of the German Federal Institute for Drugs recommends Elder flower for 'Colds.' 'Average daily dosage: 10 - 15 g drug; 1.5 - 3 g fluidextract (according to Erg. B. 6); 2.5 - 7.5 g tincture (according to Erg. B. 6); equivalent preparations. Mode of Administration: Whole herb and other galenical preparations for teas, 1 - 2 cups of tea sipped several times daily, as hot as possible. Actions: Diaphoretic; Increased bronchial secretion.' Elder soothes coughs and inflammation by increasing bronchial secretions. It also noticeably increases sweating. Both the flowers and the berries are diaphoretic, anti-catarrhal and anti-spasmodic. Flavonoid-rich Elder, berries and flowers, are cell-protective and antioxidant. Elder leaves, have been shown to be antiviral, inhibiting such as flu and herpes viruses. Elder syrup has been shown to lessen flu symptoms and speed recovery. Elder flowers have been shown to be anti-inflammatory. Grieve's classic 'A Modern Herbal': 'Elder Flowers and Elder Berries have long been used in the English countryside for making many home-made drinks and preserves that are almost as great favourites now as in the time of our great-grandmothers. The berries make an excellent home-made wine and winter cordial, which improves with age, and taken hot with sugar, just before going to bed, is an old-fashioned and well established cure for a cold.' King's 1898 Dispensatory: (of the closely related Sambucus canadensis) 'Sambucus canadensis is an indigenous shrub, growing in all parts of the United States... S. nigra is indigenous to Europe, growing in situations similar to those of the American variety. The two plants possess similar medicinal properties. The medicinal parts are the flowers, the berries, and the inner bark.' 'Sambucus is stimulant to all of the emunctories, increasing secretion.' '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, erysipelas, erysipelatous diseases, etc. In infusion,