It’s the elderberry time of year again. Just in time for cold and flu season! You’ve loved our do-it-yourself Elderberry Tonic Kits which feature elderberries and other immune-boosting herbs along with instructions to be able to make an Infusion (tea), a Tincture, or a Syrup for yourself. Well, we’re also adding a new addition to our herbal offerings: Elderberry Glycerites! It’s the sugar-free edition of Elderberry Syrup.
With diabetes in our family, Elderberry Syrup w raw honey is out, especially with the dosage needed when one is sick. So we’ve always just used Elderberry tincture–which works great, but well, isn’t terribly tasty. So now we can have our cake and eat it too! 🍰
The honeyed version of elderberry syrup is better if your blood sugar can handle it since raw honey has soooo many health benefits in itself. I encourage you in that direction, but for those who need or want sugar-free option, glycerin is the way to go. It is sweet to the taste and a perfect medium for making a medicinally powerful, yet tastebud-pleasing Elderberry Syrup.
Our glycerite is made with organic elderberries, organic and food grade glycerin and organic sweet orange essential oil. The EO is added to make up for some of the healthful properties of the missing honey. And yes, essential oils in glycerin are fully dissolved and so are safe for internal use, plus it gives the syrup just the right hint of orange taste.
As a preventative + tonic, you may take a teaspoon 3x per day. If you feel an illness coming on, increase to a tsp every 2 hours. During the worst of illness, take every hour. Just a little heads up: it’s SUPER sweet, so I try to sip off the spoonful. A couple smaller sips for me seem to go down easier than one big teaspoonful. However, some of our grandchildren don’t seem to mind a whole spoonful at once.
Now that the Market season is finished for this year, You’ll be able to pick up both our DIY Tonic Mix and/or a jar of Elderberry Glycerite at Early Bird Market in downtown Bville, and at Farm Hippie in Pawhuska, and also at The FARMacy in downtown Pryor. If you’d like to order directly from us just send us an email at JsCrossing@proton.me.
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