Sureau noir | Fleur entière séchée (Sambucus nigra)

What is elderberry?

Elderberry was once nicknamed "the country people's pharmacy." Very popular in Europe, its berries and flowers are used in several fields, including herbalism, fine cuisine, and alternative medicine. Our elderflowers are carefully hand-picked and dried in the shade to preserve their quality and natural virtues.

How to use elderflowers?

1. As an herbal tea: You can infuse them alone for a pure taste or create your own blend by adding your favorite loose herbs.
   
   
2. In cooking: They have a thousand and one uses, let your creativity flow! Enhance your jams, jellies, compotes, pies, and desserts. In addition to making excellent cocktail syrups and lemonades.
   The flowers are also prized in the food industry to flavor sparkling wines, premium tonics, teas, syrups, and various beverages.
   
   
3. In herbalism: In modern herbalism, the flowers are the main part used. According to the monographs of the German Commission E, an organization recognized for researching and writing a therapeutic guide to phytotherapy, elderberry helps with coughs, bronchitis, fever, and colds.
   The infusion of dried flowers would also act as a tonic, expectorant, and diuretic.
   It can also be used externally, as a poultice to reduce inflammation and relieve pain, as well as in an ointment to soothe burns and scalds.