Elderberry tincture recipe

Elderberry tincture to cleanse the body

Elderberry grows in wet places, on the banks of the forests, the rivers, in the gardens. Fruit is black with red berry juice. It flowers in May and June, and the fruit harvested in autumn. Contains tannins, valeric acid, sugars, pectins, essential oil, vitamins (B, C), potassium malate.

Elderberry Tincture

Recommended as a means of cleansing the body. Works diaphoretic, diuretic, cleans the blood, relieves fever. Helps in chronic constipation. Lets get rid of toxins.

Ingredients: 1 kg of ripe black elderberry | 1 liter of spirits | sugar syrup (1/2 liter of water by 0.25 kg of sugar)

Preparation: 1 kg of healthy, ripe elderberries quick rinse in a sieve, put a gander and pour 1 liter. Keep in a tightly closed gander for a month in a warm place.

After this time, decant and filter through a filter paper. Pour into the prepared previously syrup made ​​from 1/2 liters of water and 0.25 kg of sugar. Close jug and tincture stand for a week.

After a week, filter and pour into bottles. These in turn, tightly closed, should stand for half a year in a place dark and cool medium.

Dosage: drink 2 times a day between meals tablespoon.

Elderberry tincture of roots

This tincture detoxifies the body and helps digestion.

Ingredients: 1 and 1/2 kg of ripe black elderberry | 1 kg of sugar | 1/4 vanilla pod | 3 cloves | 10 cm piece of cinnamon | piece of ginger root | the juice of 1 lemon | 2 liters of water | 1/ 2 liters of dry white wine | liter of 80% vodka , made with spirit

Preparation: a pot put 1 and 1/2 kg of ripe black elderberry 1 kg of sugar, juice of 1 lemon, 10 cm piece of cinnamon, a piece of root ginger, 3 cloves, 1/4 vanilla pod.

Pour 2 liters of water and 1/ 2 liters of dry white wine. Mix well. Bet on the heat and bring to a boil, stirring frequently. Leave, covered, until cool.

Filter through a bag of cloth or a piece of cloth. Add 1 liter of 80% vodka, made with spirit. Pour into bottles and cork in tightly. For two months leave in a dark and cool place.

Dosage: drink 2 times a day between meals tablespoon.