The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Herbal Medicine for Preppers: Elder

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey y'all, welcome to this week's show. Today we're going to talk about, well, one of the medicinal trees that, well, I guess most everybody knows about. It's very popular these days, has been especially since COVID, and it's Elder Sambucus. But before we do, speaking of trees, I just finished carving a beautiful set of spoons for a lady who does special order it's what I call the mother and toddler set it's a big serving spoon and a little spoon it's just like perfect for a kid you know the bowl of the spoon is rounded and there's no sharp edges on it and they it's kind of chunky you know they can hold in their hands and it's thick enough to chew on but it's really a very attractive chart perfect to have wild cherry and so i just wanted to remind you um check out judson carroll woodcraft for christmas gifts remember my work makes excellent christmas gifts got several sets on there for sale right now

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Starting point is 00:01:33 And if you do a paid subscription to any of my newsletters, Judson Carroll, Master Herbalist, or my Uncensored Catholic newsletter, I send you two free e-books. So it can be a subscription for you and one you can give us a gift or you can keep the books or give them away hey it's up to you so now let's talk about elder and elder is actually whether two trees or two plants I guess and one's more like a shrub, that are called elder in herbal medicine. And actually, both of these can qualify as a shrub, actually. Elder is not a very tall

Starting point is 00:02:12 tree, but it is technically a tree, although sometimes it's called a shrub. But even going back to ancient Greek medicine, they would differentiate between the elder from which we get elder berries and what's called the ground elder or dwarf elder and those it actually has some toxicity actually both plants have some toxicity but for the elder berries the tree we think of that toxicity is actually in the wood and bark it's actually not in the berries to any large extent. But if you've ever dealt with an elder, you might know that the branches, really the thin, thinner branches, are hollow. And so basically any kid's been tempted to make a blowgun out of them. But you can actually poison yourself using the blowgun. So you do need to know that but the the ground elder has a

Starting point is 00:03:05 greater deal of toxicity going back to um uh dioscorides in ancient greek medicine he talked about the elder we know today like you might get in any drug store you know to use as an antiviral it was very popular for making wine and elderberry wine is really one of the finest wines and has a great deal of medicinal value. He warned against the ground elder saying the berries are poisonous but that the leaves were useful in herbal medicine and the root as well. He said it had the same properties as the leaves of drying and expelling water but bad for the stomach leaves boiled purged phlegm and bile and they'd actually eat that sort of as a pot herb by the way like we might you know collard or mustard greens or kale or something and the stalks also as a boiled

Starting point is 00:03:58 vegetable not much used that way anymore so the roots boiled with wine and given with meat are good for dropsy or water retention. Edema, as we would call it now. The decoction taken as a drink helps those bitten by vipers. And I don't know if that's true or not. I mean, you got to look at this like 3,000 years old and, you know, take it with a grain of salt. As I often said, say, boiled with water for bathing, it softens the womb and opens the vagina and sets right any disorders around it. Again, I don't know if that's true or not. We don't use ground elder much in herbal medicine these days, but it was much used, probably even more than the elder that we think of in ancient medicine. It was also used to darken the hair, believe it or not.

Starting point is 00:04:50 And they've used the fruit, the berries. They said they were poisonous to eat. It's the ground elder again, but were good as a hair dye. New tender leaves smeared on with polenta. And they actually meant like cream of wheat because they didn't have corn as we know it. Lessens inflammation. Good for burns and dog bites smeared on with any kind of fat they he said bull or goats grease but I'm sure it's any kind of fat because it's more just like a medium you know heals hollow ulcers or sores that are

Starting point is 00:05:19 you know don't want to heal and are good for gout he talks about the various names different cultures the Romans and Egyptians and all caught it we don't even know that but moving up to about 1100 AD st. Hildegard von Bingen said one who has jaundice should enter a sauna bath and place the leaves of the tree on hot rocks and she doesn't differentiate between the two elders so she said the leaves of either he shall pour water over them and place a twig in pure wine so that it takes its flavor. While in the bath, he should drink this in moderation, and after he comes out of the bath, he should lie in bed so he sweats. If he does this often, he will be better.

Starting point is 00:05:59 Now, moving up to the 15th century, Gerard wrote of what he called common elder. And I do believe the common elder is the elder we would use today. He said, Galen attributeth the like faculty to elder that he doth Danewort. I'm not going to get into all that. But anyway, he said it had a purging quality and just means it was basically a good laxative. The leaves and tender crops of elder taken in some broth or pottage opened the belly, purging both thick phlegm and choleric humors. So we're talking congestion essentially and probably congestion of the intestines,

Starting point is 00:06:40 which was actually pretty common back then. Bad food, bad water, you know, the whole bit. The middle bark is of the same nature, but stronger, and purges said humors more violently. The seeds contained within the berry are good for such as have the drop seed, and for those who are too fat and would like to be leaner, or as he said, would feign be leaner. They take it in the morning in the quantity of a dram with wine for a certain space. So for a period of time he's not, but apparently he thought it would help you lose weight. I don't know. The leaves of elder boiled in water until they'd be very soft.

Starting point is 00:07:18 When taken with oil sweet almond laid, added thereto, or a little linseed oil, then taken forth and laid upon a cloth, applied to hemorrhoids or piles would help with the inflammation. And he said it was also good for swollen joints and such. And the elder berries are very anti-inflammatory. They're very good antioxidant qualities. He said the green leaves pounded with deer suet or bull's tallow. Good luck on getting bull's tallow these days. Us hunters would have some deer suet, but they tend

Starting point is 00:07:52 to be rather lean. I guess, I wonder if the English deer had a bit more fat to them. Well, anyway, deer fat is not very usable. So, hey, use it for your herbal medicine. I mean, you know, so hey use it for your herbal medicine I mean you know if deer has a gamey taste either the meat hasn't been used properly well what's my word the deal the meat hasn't been prepared handled there's a dress there we go properly in the field and you know it's gotten a little taint to it because you've been carrying your carcass around showing it off to your friends or it was too hot when you went out hunting but normally we do like to take most of the fat off of our deer meat because that's where the gamey taste tends to be some people though actually do have a taste for deer

Starting point is 00:08:35 fat I've actually known a few who did some people have a taste for coon fat which is really most people say get rid of all the fat on a raccoon. You know, people have different tastes. I guess it depends on what you grew up with. But anyway, he said, pounded with the fat of these various ruminants, was good to be laid on hot swellings and tumors, and doth assuage the pain of gout.

Starting point is 00:09:09 For, let's see, the inner green bark doth more forcibly purge and draweth forth choler, watery humors. It was pounded up and basically drunk with wine or whey. Yeah, a good way to use whey, I suppose. Of like operation are the fresh flowers mixed with some kind of meat or fried with eggs, in other words, eaten. And he thought that was a very good for the stomach and as a laxative. And yeah, steeped in vinegar, the flowers are, he said, were very good for the stomach and would help stir up the appetite.

Starting point is 00:09:42 and would help stir up the appetite. Seeds are somewhat gentler than that of other parts to move the belly. Again, we're using this as a laxative, and he recommended putting them in wine with some anise seed and probably just give it a better flavor. Anise is also good against cramping, so that would probably be a little more comfortable. The jelly of elder. This is, I guess, elderberry jelly.

Starting point is 00:10:11 However, had a binding and drying quality and could be used for diarrhea and such or discharges, congestion, you know, whatever. The pith of the bowels is without quality, so don't try to use the pith. In fact so don't try to use the pith in fact don't try to use the bowels at all b-o-u-g-h-s not b-o-w-l-s of course but now of dwarf dwarf elder this is the ground elder he said the roots boiled in wine and drunken are good against the dropsy, for they purge the downward watery humors. The leaves do consume and waste away hard swellings if they be applied poultice-wise or in a bath. He talks about using it to dye the hair black, just as the earlier authors had said. The young and tender leaf quencheth hot inflammations being applied with barley meal. It is with good success laid upon burning scaldings and upon the bindings of mad dogs with bulls, tallow, or goats.

Starting point is 00:11:18 Sue it. I think it comes directly from D.S. Corides. The seed, excellent to purge watery humors and good against the dropsy. Let's see, we'll get up to 1600s, Culpeper. Both elder and dwarf elder, the first shoots, let's see, he talks, he speaks, he wrote, he wrote of both elder and dwarf elder. He said, the first shoots of the common elder, that's the one we use for the berries, are boiled like asparagus, and the young leaves and stalks boiled in fat doth mightily carry forth phlegm and collar.

Starting point is 00:11:54 The middle or inward bark boiled and given in a drink worketh much more violently. In other words, big time laxative. The berries, either green or dry, expel the same humor and are often given with good success to help the dropsy or edema. The bark of the root boiled in wine or the juice thereof drank worketh the same effect but more powerfully in either the leaves or fruit. The juice of the root taken doth mightily procure vomiting so yeah if you have a reason to throw up if you take it's a poison otherwise avoid it um the decoction of

Starting point is 00:12:33 the root cureth the biting of an adder and of mad dogs i sincerely doubt it i'm not going to swear to that one by any means uh the decoction of the root taken, let's see, it mollifieth the hardness of the mother. Again, that's what D.S. Corrides was talking about. It has some softening effect on the female reproductive system. Let's just put it that way. The berries boiled in wine

Starting point is 00:12:58 performeth the same effect. And if you wash the hair of the head, it will cause it to be made black the juice of the green leaves applied to hot inflammation of the eyes assuageth them the juice of the leaves snuffed up the nostrils purchased the purges the tonicles of the brain i don't even know what a tonicle is uh but uh yeah maybe don't do that uh the juice of the berries boiled with honey and dropped into the ears help with the pains of them and yes elder is quite

Starting point is 00:13:30 good for earaches and such against that astringent anti-inflammatory property it also has some anti microbial properties and antiviral properties so yeah good for stuff such as that the cocks of the berries being drank in wine provoketh urine the distilled water of the flowers can be used to cleanse the skin from sunburn freckles and more few and the like take away the way the headache and especially that coming of a cold cause so if you got cold and you get a you thought it was good and again we use elder syrup or elder wine or whatever elderberry extraction extract for colds and viruses today the dwarf elder he says is more powerful than the common elder in opening and purging cholera phlegm and water in helping the gout piles and women's diseases,

Starting point is 00:14:29 coloreth the hair black, and helpeth the inflammation of the eyes and pains of the ears, and the biting of serpents and mad dogs, burning and scalding, wind, colic, and stone, the difficulty of urination, the cure of old sores and fistulous ulcers, either the leaves or bark of elders stripped upwards as you gather it causeth vomiting. So, more modern news, 1930s, still in the British tradition. Miss Greve said dwarf elder has a more drastic therapeutic action than common elder. However, both were considered to be expectorant, diuretic, diaphoretic, and purgative. Diaphoretic means and purgative. The leaves are probably more used in herbal practice than those of Cymbucus nigra and

Starting point is 00:15:15 are used as ingredients for both inflammation of the kidney and liver. The drug is said to be very efficacious against dropsy. Dwarfelder tea, which has been considered one of the best remedies for dropsy, is prepared from the dried roots cut up and ground in fine powder, and she mentions that the drug was much used by Father Nape, the great German herbalist, which we'll probably get to here in a minute. The root, which is white and fleshy, has a nauseous, bitter taste, and a decoction of it is a drastic purgative.

Starting point is 00:15:47 The leaves, bruised and lays on boils and skulls, have a healing effect, and boiled in wine and made into a poultice were employed in France to resolve swellings and relieve contusions. Apparently, she also said the leaves were used to repel mice and moles. That'd be worth a shot. I don't know. She does mention that in the United States, this is the 1930s, dwarf elder was a name used for an entirely different plant, Aurelia hispida. That is true. It was. It's not any longer, I don't believe.

Starting point is 00:16:24 Aurelia hisispida is now considered well one of the Aurelia so one of the spikenards and I think we got that pretty much cleared up but there's also one called prickly elder which is actually false prickly ash zantothm, which we've discussed before, and Poison Elder, which in the 1930s was actually another name for Poison Sumac. So, again, not an elder. And one more called the Box Elder, which is a shrub in the British Isles. So, if you're in England, maybe you'll encounter that one. We don't really get that one around here very much, unless someone planted it as an ornamental.

Starting point is 00:17:07 She does say that there are about a dozen species of elder in Great Britain, beginning with the common elder, and in various, you know, you can get darker berries or reddish berries. And there's actually a red-berried American elder called Sambuca rubens. There's also Sambuca mellocarpa anyway we're basically talking about the one that has berries that we use for wine and medicine and the one that is more of a small shrub ground elder in which we basically just use the leaves maybe the the bark, twigs, anyway. In the Irish tradition, Kehoe said, the leaves and tender tops and inner bark purge bilious conditions. A small amount of the seed

Starting point is 00:17:54 pounded and taken in wine will disperse all accumulations of water fluid. The green leaves are good against all sorts of inflammation. The flowers expel wind from the stomach, and the berries can be used in gargles for sore mouths and throats. Now, as of the berry, the regular elder, I'm just going to call it that, the one we use most, dwarf elder or ground elder, I'm just going to start calling it that just to differentiate. He says that the dwarf elder is very beneficial in causing watery evacuations. He says that the dwarf elder is very beneficial in causing watery evacuations.

Starting point is 00:18:35 And I should say again, elderberry wine was probably the second most common wine in England and the British Isles. Probably next to gooseberry because, you know, grapes don't grow real well in England and such. Some do okay, but they had more elderberry wine, and elderberry wine is one of the finest wines there is, absolutely equal to the best grape wine, so definitely look into that. Makes a wonderful jam and jelly, and it's absolutely one of my favorite berries, actually. But speaking of Father Nape, he said of Common Elder, In the good old times the elder bush stood nearest to the house, but now it is in many ways just placed and rooted up. It ought to stand near every house, as part of the household, as it were, or if cast aside it should be brought back to its post of honor. For every part of the elder tree, leaves, blossoms, berries, bark, and root are all efficacious

Starting point is 00:19:26 remedies. In the springtime, vigorous nature strives to throw off matters that have gathered together in the body during winter. Who does not know these states, the so-called spring diseases, such as eruptions, diarrhea, colic, and such like? Whoever wishes to purify juices and blood in spring by a course of medicine and to get rid of injurious manners in the easiest and most natural way, let him learn to take six or eight leaves of the elder tree and cut them up small like one cuts tobacco and let the tea boil for about ten minutes. Taken daily during the whole course, one cup of this tea fasting, an hour before breakfast. This most simple blood purifying tea cleanses the machine of the human body in an excellent manner, and with poor people it takes the place of pills and alpine herbs and such like which nowadays are found in

Starting point is 00:20:18 fine medicine chests and of which often have very strange effects. This course may be undertaken at any other time of the year. Even the withered leaves make a good purifying tea. And who has not made cakes of elderflower? This was very common in Germany where Father Naples, in early America, throughout Europe, anywhere in Asia, anywhere elder grows. You take the flowers and make fritters out of them. And he said, many people bake them just at the time the tree is shining and in its white spring adornment. And they say these flower cakes are a protection against fever.

Starting point is 00:20:58 I know a place which is often visited with the ague, fevers, malaria usually. And there in spring, you will see these elderflower cakes served on every table. I have never examined this minutely and critically. Let those people remain in their faith for such fare is good and wholesome. And it is. Those elderflower fritters or cakes are really tasty and really good for you as well. They do have the antiviral properties of elder. Elderflowers also purify it. It would be good if in every home dispensatory a box of dried elder flowers was kept. Winter is long and cases can occur in which such a dissolving and pseudorific lentil remedy may prove of excellent service and harm can never be done by it. From organisms in which dropsy has commenced, elder root prepared as tea

Starting point is 00:21:46 drives out the water so powerfully that it is scarcely excelled by any other medicament. Oh, the way Father Nape wrote, you know, this is like late 1800s, and he was a very good writer. How would I put it? Very not German in the way he wrote, even though he was German. He was a lot more flowery than we might think of. The berries which in autumn are often boiled and eaten as a porridge or marmalade were highly esteemed by our forefathers as a blood-purifying remedy. My departed mother undertook such an elderflower course every year for a fortnight to three weeks. This was the chief reason why our ancestors of 40 or 50 years ago had at least two elder trees planted before their houses.

Starting point is 00:22:33 As the higher classes nowadays travel, and often to distant lands, to make use of extensive grape cures, in other words, people with more money would go to where they could drink a lot of grape wine. So our parents and grandparents used to go to the elder tree, which is close at hand and which served them so cheaply and often much better than the expensive grapes. Some years ago, I was among the Austrian Alps and saw there to my great joy how the elder tree was still honored. Of that, said one old peasant to me, we do not let a single berry go to waste. How simple, how sensible! Even the birds, before they commence their autumnal travels, seek out everywhere the elder trees to purify their blood and strengthen their nature for

Starting point is 00:23:21 the long journey. What a pity that man, on account of art and affection, no longer feels or takes notice of these natural instincts in the sound mind. If the berries are boiled down with sugar or better still with honey, they will prove especially good in the wintertime for people who have but little exercise and are condemned to a sedentary mode of life. A spoonful of the above preserved in a glass of water makes the most splendid cooling refreshing drink, operates on the secretion of urine, and has

Starting point is 00:23:51 a good effect on the kidneys. Many country people dry the berries, but whether these dried berries are boiled as a porridge or stewed or eaten dry, in all forms they are an excellent remedy against violent diarrhea. Because the exceedingly good service rendered by the elder tree are no longer remembered this faithful and formerly so high esteemed household friend is in many ways rejected may the old friend be brought to honor once more and uh he talks of uh dwarf elder as well think I'm going to skip ahead to his mentor, Brother Aloysius, because he was a bit less flowery in his language and more the professional clinical herbalist that we might expect of today.

Starting point is 00:24:37 He said the regular elder flowers are undoubtedly the most well-known diaphoretic in use that means help break a fever and can be successfully employed on the onset of all kinds of chills. The inner rind of one-year-old shoots mixed with a half-quantity of licorice is an excellent remedy for dropsy. Of course, licorice has a great power upon the kidneys. The leaves drunk as tea are a depurative. The well-known elder syrup can be made from berries picked in autumn. I'm getting tongue-tied here. Let me sip something. There we go.

Starting point is 00:25:18 Elder flowers boiled in milk with a slice of white bread soaked into it, applied between linen cloths on burning eyes soon draws out all burning sore eyes are also soon healed by this remedy and a good laxative is from four to five teaspoons of elder berries elder leaves boiled in milk are beneficial for scurf that's usually like eczema psoriasis they're to puritive and laxative the dosage is one to two cups daily now of the dwarf elder he said the root is used medicinally and should be gathered in July. The decoction contains 1-2 tablespoons per 2 cups of water and is very beneficial in the treatment of dropsy.

Starting point is 00:25:57 A larger dose acts as a purgative. Gout and pedagora are soon cured by the application of elder root boiled for quite some time in wine dregs, the leftover must of wine. The flowers and leaves boiled to a paste are highly recommended for sciatica, rheumatism, and paralysis. This alone will cure these complaints. It can also be fruitfully used in the treatment of neuralgia. It can also be fruitfully used in the treatment of neuralgia. So, not used like that much in modern herbal medicine. That use, pretty much unknown in modern medicine.

Starting point is 00:26:38 Flowers and leaves boiled, recommended for sciatica, rheumatism, and paralysis. That's a pretty darn good tip there. I think we're gonna start just repeating a lot of the same uses over and over. I've got extensive notes here from Resources Southern Fields and Forests. I see where they make an ointment out of it same as the ancients did with bear fat or bulls fat or whatever they were using. King's American Dispensatory of 1898 says Sambucus is a stimulant to increase secretions. It uses a warm infusion. The flowers of elder are diaphoretic and gently stimulant.

Starting point is 00:27:23 So again, it helps with fever, diaphoretic, diuretic. Good for hepatic derangements of children, inflamed liver in children, which can be very serious. You don't want to take that seriously. Intergreen bark is cathartic. Again, powerful laxative. I'm just kind of skimming through here again, beaten with lard or cream good for scalds and burns and certain skin issues

Starting point is 00:27:52 specific indication uses in skin affectations where the tissue is full, flabby, and edema you have edema You have retained water And your tissue is swollen And it's not going down Let's see Good for indolent ulcers

Starting point is 00:28:15 Yeah, anyway We've covered all that Plants for future modern use says Medicinal use of elder The plant has medicinal qualities No further details are given But these are the medicinal properties for future modern use says medicinal use of elder the plant has medicinal qualities no further details are given but these are the medicinal properties of the closely related s and another sambucus the leaves are antiphlogistic colagogue diaphoretic diuretic expectorant and laxative

Starting point is 00:28:39 the fruit is also sometimes used but is less active than the leaves. The herb is commonly used in treatment of liver and kidney complaints when bruised and is laid on boileds and scalds and has a healing effect. They can be made into a poultice for treating swellings and contusions. Leaves harvested in the summer are dried for later use. The root is diaphoretic, mildly diuretic, and a drastic purgative. It should only be used with expert supervision because it can cause nausea and vertigo. Not a pleasant experience. Homeopathic remedy made from the berries and bark used for the treatment of dropsy. Rodale herb book mentions that delightful tea can be made from the blossoms and good for colds and fevers and all that. We'll wrap it up with the physician's desk reference for herbal medicine. You know, the book your doctor is going to refer to.

Starting point is 00:29:39 Flowers and berries of Sambucus nigra and Sambucus canadensis, those are shorten the duration and severity of flu and cold, to treat eczema and other skin disorders, and to reduce pain and inflammation. Indications and usages approved by Commission E are cough and bronchitis, fever, and cold. The drug is used for coughs and colds. It is a sweat-producing remedy for the treatment of feverish colds. In folk medicine, elderflowers are used internally as a pseudorific tea. That means calming can help you sleep. And for colds and for other feverish conditions. Elder is also used as an infusion, a gargle, a mouthwash,

Starting point is 00:30:21 and for respiratory disorders such as coughs, head colds, laryngitis, flu, and shortness of breath. Elder is used occasionally by nursing mothers to increase lactation. Externally herbal pillows are used for swelling and inflammation. Under precautions and adverse reactions, only fully ripe berries are used, as red berries can be mildly toxic. ripe berries are used as red berries can be mildly toxic. Leaves, shoots, barks, roots, and raw red berries contain cyanogenic glycosides that can cause dizziness, headache, convulsions, g-r-i-n that can cause dizziness headache convulsions gastrointestinal distress nausea vomiting diarrhea and tachycardia so pretty serious actually bark lectins may stimulate hyperplasia of the small intestine data suggests sambucus may be a source potential may be a source of potential harm to diabetic patients and caution should be advised.

Starting point is 00:31:29 We use elderberry syrup in wines and jams and extracts all the time. I would take those warnings with a grain of salt, but as I said, unripe berries, the bark, the wood itself, the sap of the tree do contain these toxins. So do be aware of that. Much stronger in the dwarf elder, but present in both species. Why would a prepper want to have elderberry trees on their property? One, excellent wine and food. Okay. I mean, really good. Also going to draw gain to your property, but you've heard about it for inflammations, for all kinds of stuff, diuretic. I mean, all the properties in modern times, there's been a lot of clinical research done on elder.

Starting point is 00:32:18 It inhibits viral replication, especially in colds and flus and your common you know rhinovirus and all that it inhibits the replication almost puts like a little coating around the virus that keeps it prevents it from replicating and can shorten the duration of a cold shorten the severity of a cold in COVID it was found to be perhaps a little less helpful, and some people said it was even contraindicated. Others swore by it. You know, you're going to have to do your own research on that. You know, COVID, hopefully it was a one-off. I mean, we keep getting variants that keep coming around and all kinds of stuff like that.

Starting point is 00:33:02 But for your traditional upper respiratory viruses elders to go to elders like the place to start elderberry garlic and onions you know mints and sage all the traditional remedies that's one of the top ones on our list so do look into elder list. So do look into elder, do your research into it, definitely have it as part of your landscaping food supply, your wild grocery store out there. But learning to use them additionally can be really a lifesaver. And at least, I mean, when it comes to inflammations and swollen joints and arthritis and all that, it's going to make your life a lot easier. So I consider it one of the essentials. All right, y'all.

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