Elderberry flower oil helps with digestive system ailments, colds and joint pains. It can also be used for massage. Try our elderberry flower oil recipe.
Elderberry flower oilcan be made both cold - using fresh umbels, and hot - from dried flowers. For the preparation of elderberry flower oil, cold-pressed vegetable oils are best suited: hemp oil, rapeseed oil, linseed oil, pumpkin oil, black seed oil, grape seed oil or olive oil). Why? Because they contain many fat-soluble vitamins and fatty acids that the human body does not produce. They have a good effect on blood circulation, skin, immune system and metabolism.
How to make elderberry flower oil?
Pour the elderberry flowers into a clear glass bottle and pour the oil over them. Close the bottle with a linen cloth so that the air can circulate freely. Put it in a sunny place for three weeks, stirring the contents occasionally. Then pour through a strainer into dark bottles. Store in glaciers.
Elderflower oil extract
Dried flowers are poured with oil (proportions 250 g of flowers to 500 ml of oil) and heat for three hours over low heat. Pour the oil through the dark glass bottle cloth.
What properties does elderberry have?
ImportantFresh elderberry flowers are not suitable for preparing oil extracts - the high water content causes the mixture to go rancid quickly. Fatty elderberry extracts should be stored in the refrigerator so that bacteria cannot reach them. Use an opened bottle of oil within 2 weeks.
elderberry flower oil: application
Externally, elderberry flower oil can be used to massage muscles and joints, for colds massage, to moisturize and lubricate dry, chapped skin and to soothe insect and insect bites. To alleviate abdominal pain, inflammation of the intestines or gastric mucosa, you can eat 1 teaspoon of elderberry oil before or during a meal.
Based on the book by Ellen Heidböhmer "Black without for he alth and beauty"