This Cold Remedy Sold Out in 2020. It Grows Free Outside. Be Ready Next Time.

📖 The Nature’s Lost Vault Book Is Now Available. Learn more: https://naturelostvault.com/book.html In the winter of 2020, the shelves emptied and the price doubled. People stood in line and paid around twenty dollars a bottle for a dark syrup that had become impossible to find. Almost nobody realized the same thing was growing wild and free along the road they drove to get there. This is the story of elderberry, the American elder, the roadside shrub botanists call Sambucus. For centuries it was the backbone of home herbal medicine, the plant old European healers called the medicine chest of the common people. This video traces how a common wild plant became the best-selling herbal supplement in America, why elderberry syrup sold out in the 2020 panic, and what the science actually says about elderberry for colds and flu. We walk through the folk history, the traditional elderberry syrup recipe your great-grandmother would recognize, and the modern research: the randomized influenza trials, the meta-analysis on upper respiratory infections, and the lab work on the berry's deep purple anthocyanins. We are honest about the limits of that evidence, and about why a plant that grows free still gets sold back to you by the bottle. Then we get practical: how to identify American elder in the wild, when the berries ripen, the one red-berried look-alike to avoid, and why raw elderberries must always be cooked first. If you care about foraging, wild food, forgotten remedies, medicinal plants, natural cold and flu support, and self-reliance, this is a plant worth knowing. It was never rare. Most of us simply forgot how to see it. Subscribe to Nature's Lost Vault to keep rediscovering the wild plants hiding in plain sight. The next vault opens soon. Sources - Zakay-Rones, Z., N. Varsano, M. Zlotnik, et al. "Inhibition of Several Strains of Influenza Virus in Vitro and Reduction of Symptoms by an Elderberry Extract (Sambucus nigra L.) During an Outbreak of Influenza B Panama." Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 1, no. 4 (1995): 361-369. doi:10.1089/acm.1995.1.361 - Zakay-Rones, Z., E. Thom, T. Wollan, and J. Wadstein. "Randomized Study of the Efficacy and Safety of Oral Elderberry Extract in the Treatment of Influenza A and B Virus Infections." Journal of International Medical Research 32, no. 2 (2004): 132-140. doi:10.1177/147323000403200205 - Tiralongo, E., S. S. Wee, and R. A. Lea. "Elderberry Supplementation Reduces Cold Duration and Symptoms in Air-Travellers: A Randomized, Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial." Nutrients 8, no. 4 (2016): 182. doi:10.3390/nu8040182 - Hawkins, J., et al. "Black Elderberry (Sambucus nigra) Supplementation Effectively Treats Upper Respiratory Symptoms: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trials." Complementary Therapies in Medicine 42 (2019): 361-365. doi:10.1016/j.ctim.2018.12.004 - Roschek, B., Jr., R. C. Fink, M. D. McMichael, D. Li, and R. S. Alberte. "Elderberry Flavonoids Bind to and Prevent H1N1 Infection in Vitro." Phytochemistry 70, no. 10 (2009): 1255-1261. doi:10.1016/j.phytochem.2009.06.003 - Krawitz, C., et al. "Inhibitory Activity of a Standardized Elderberry Liquid Extract Against Clinically Relevant Human Respiratory Bacterial Pathogens and Influenza A and B Viruses." BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 11 (2011): 16. doi:10.1186/1472-6882-11-16 - Barak, V., S. Birkenfeld, T. Halperin, and I. Kalickman. "The Effect of Herbal Remedies on the Production of Human Inflammatory and Anti-Inflammatory Cytokines." Israel Medical Association Journal 4, no. 11 Suppl (2002): 919-922. - Vlachojannis, J. E., M. Cameron, and S. Chrubasik. "A Systematic Review on the Sambuci Fructus Effect and Efficacy Profiles." Phytotherapy Research 24, no. 1 (2010): 1-8. doi:10.1002/ptr.2729 #foraging #HerbalMedicine #WildFood #SelfReliance