Benefits

The berries and flowers of elderberry are packed with antioxidants and vitamins that may boost your  immune system. They can help dampen down inflammation, reduce the effects of stress, and help protect your heart health.

Some experts recommend elderberry to help prevent and ease cold and flu symptoms.

It’s also been used as a treatment for:

• constipation
• joint and muscle pain
• Infections that affect how you breathe
• headaches
• fever
• kidney problems
• epilepsy
• Minor skin conditions

Effectiveness

Elderberry gets a lot of support as a healing agent through word of mouth and old wives’ tales, but its success in medical tests is less conclusive. More research is needed.