Healing Herbal Tea : Elder

As we come into the ‘cold and flu’ season,  I’m going to share several herbal teas with you that can help boost your immune system, clear congestion, tame a cold, and fight a flu. When it comes to this topic, there’s no better place to start than with Elder herbal tea! This amazing herb has a respectable history of being used to deal with everything from allergies to coughs, flu to respiratory health. It’s an essential organic herb to have in stock during the Fall, Winter, and Spring!

The Healing Properties Of Elder Herbal Tea

Elder herbal tea helps clear out the entire respiratory system making it easier for your lungs to clear themselves while making it easier for you to breathe. Its long history of use for sore throats and coughs also makes it a great addition to any seasonal sickness preparedness chest. Elderberry and Elder Flower herbal tea gets mucous out of the way so that your body can get to work doing its job.

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Elder Tea Recipes

Adding a bit of freshly squeezed lemon juice to freshly brewed Elderberry herbal tea is a great way to do some serious damage to a cold, cough, or flu. Adding organic raw local honey will supercharge it even more! Mixing in

Many blends for coughs, colds, flu, sore throats, and allergies contain Elderberries or flowers and there’s a good reason for it. This powerful yet gentle herb knows how to clean house and support your body in getting better, fast! When mixed with nutritive teas like dandelion root, nettle leaf, or raspberry leaf, Elder herbal tea becomes even more powerful in helping our bodies heal from common seasonal illnesses.

If you have any other favorites for Elder, share them in the comments section below!