Elderberry, Sambucol

[EndlessWire]

We should add our own effort to staying safe, and not wait for the Ghoul Corps to tell us "too bad for you." Accordingly, elderberries and Sambucol seem like a promising start to our own research.

Has anyone taken either of these? What do you think?

[Big Blue Marble]

1. I am taking it.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11399518

There is research to show it support the immune system.

[Siwsan]

2. I use Sambucol - and garlic. Just not together. Oh, and turmeric, too.

Garlic is a great immune booster. I grow my own, so I take the smaller cloves, bruise them, and swallow them down like a pill. I also use garlic, a lot, in everyday cooking. Garlic and turmeric have both immune boosting and great anti-inflammatory benefits.

Sambucol is my big go-to when I'm going to take a flight. I have definitely noticed a decrease in 'air plane air' sickness, when I use it.

I also have some really nice elderberry jam.

[randr]

3. We make an elderberry tincture that I swear knocks out the flu in a heart beat

You know when you get the first indication of a flu. It is that irritating feeling at the back of your throat or nasal cavity.
At that moment I take a shot of tincture my wife makes out of numerous medicinal s, based on an elderberry syrup, and for the last two decades I have not had the flu or even a cold. Also, never have I gotten a flu shot.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. You seems to think you start to get flu remarkably often

"That irritating feeling at the back of your throat or nasal cavity" is not an indication of flu, just a cold. Unless you're a professional treating flu patients, you're not exposed to the flu that often. I haven't had flu for 3 decades, not because I take special precautions, but because it's something you don't catch that often. I get colds, of course, but they vary enormously. Don't imagine you are fighting the flu - it's colds.

[randr]

15. Not very often, maybe three times in last 10 years

Always after I am exposed to someone suffering.

[JudyM]

13. What other ingredients are in the tincture? Would she share the recipe? :)

[randr]

14. I'll ask her for the recipe and get back to you

My wife is an ER nurse and has been to many herbal conferences that address many issues.

[lame54]

4. Expensive

[HipChick]

8. It's all perspective...certainly not as expensive

as getting sick

[lame54]

11. Yes perspective...

Money that many do not have solves all problems

Stay home from work - don't worry about your mortgage

Take lots of vitamins - you can eat later

Coughing? Go see a doctor - co-payments aren't a thing

These are priviledged solutions
But don't question them or seek alternative advice

'Cause it's certainly not as expensive as getting sick

[JCMach1]

5. Nope

Waiting for the essential oil rumors to start in 3...2...1...


Dr.'s In Dubai prescribed those all the time. Never worked. Or, let me re-phrase mild temporary relief from a mild cough...

Several times had to go back to Dr. For 'real' meds.

[in2herbs]

7. Thanks for this thread cuz I notice people are not talking about what they can do right now to

help against the C-virus or any virus. Elderberry is almost my top choice for immune support and I keep some on hand in case I run out of my first choice which is liquid maritime pine bark. It's available only in AU and it's pricey, about $350 for a 500 ml bottle, but I take only 20 drops per day. Also, and this will set off a lot of DUers who are against alt-meds and have posted that using colloidal silver will turn them blue, but colloidal silver has been proven to be the only thing that fights/cures viral infections, including MERSA. CS can be purchased at most health food stores or you can buy a machine and make your own. I've had a machine for almost 20 years and make my own -- for pennies. Don't know if CS will work against the C-virus cuz organized medicine won't try it, so people will have to engage their own personal power and experiment. Or they can maybe die.

[HipChick]

9. Been making my own CS for a while..

I travel a lot, on planes a lot..never got sick...

[jpak]

10. I bought some as I heard it was sovereign against the coronavirus

50 mg gummies.

Gonna swill them down with quinine water.

Can't hurt if there is no vaccine or therapeutics out there....

[struggle4progress]

12. I heard that if I lit a string of 500 firecrackers in my living room, the noise and smoke

would drive out evil spirits from my house

I don't know if it worked: the noise was so awful I had to run outside, and then I couldn't go back inside until the smoke cleared, which took hours

Since then I've always put on some clothes before things people tell me to do

[kentuck]

16. Malaria pills - made from quinine..

I read somewhere this morning.