I have never even so much as seen an actual Elderberry in the wild or in a store, so I have never personally eaten one.
My mom, who is big on alternative health, educated me about Sambucs a number of years ago.
I thought it was delicious, and it made me not sick any more rather quickly. This stuff works, I swear by it. Maybe it saved my life this time, I don’t know, because this sickness I have was on its way into my chest the night i got my box of medicine, and the next day it was no longer.
Dunno if it would have killed me, probably not, but who knows.
What I did when it got a bit warmer around here was go outside in the backyard with the shepherds, and take my shirt off, and let magnificent warm sun blast my upper body. Vitamin D, baby! WOOOO! I did that 3 times in a row before the weather turned to crap again.
I’m feeling pretty darn good this morning. ‘Bout 85% better, but I can still taste some cold in the back of my throat, so vaporizer is running, and I just took some more Sambucus.
When I was younger I often spent two weeks at Christmas on the Yucatan Peninsula touring the ruins. At the time, I believed that I was treating myself of SAD with a 'sunshine therapy.'
Turns out I probably was because of a Vitimin D deficiency....now that I take daily doses of vitamin D, no SAD problems. So.....many benefits of taking vitamin D.
BTW, lack of vitamin D is why people turned 'White'.