Elderflower
Sambucus canadensis
Adoxaceae (Moschatel Family)
Medicinal Minute with Ginger Webb
A note from Ginger:
We could talk about the virtues of elder for days! Most often exalted for their antiviral and diaphoretic properties, elderflowers and elderberries are mainstays of many beginning herbalists’ apothecaries. Elderberry syrup has practically become a remedy found in most households. Elderflower is more delicate than the berries, but also more gentle and can be more safely given to young children.
Ginger Webb, Community Herbalist, Botanist, Teacher & Mentor
Ginger Webb has been practicing herbalism for nearly 30 years, as a community herbalist, clinical herbalist, herbal medicine maker, wild plant lover, botanist, and teacher. She has trained scores of people to be herbalists through her programs at Sacred Journey School of Herbalism.
Her mission is to keep alive the craft of herbalism through modeling the age-old wisdom of being in right relationship with the plants, and she teaches her students to be stewards of the Earth and the plants first, and to make medicine only when the plants wholeheartedly provide consent.
