Sambucus nigra. Kader Kochi.

Synonyms
European Elder, Blue elderberry.

Constituents

Deciduous tree. Height 6 meters. Flowers are white. Leaves have strong smell. Bark, flower, and berry contain cyanogenic glycosides.

Therapeutics

This is medicine for coryza, and fever.

It is diaphoretic in chill.

It is remedy for dry cold, hoarseness, unproductive cough, and bronchitis.

It is remedy for weakness of respiratory muscles.  

It is a prophylactic and curative remedy for dry infective rhinitis, and dry cough.

It is remedy for chronic thyroiditis, pancreatitis, and oophoritis.

It is remedy for hyperplasia (Thuja, Cinnamomum, Sanguinaria, Curcuma, Alfalfa, Trifolium pratense, Chelidonium, Taraxacum, Podophyllum, Colchicum, Thymus, Scutellaria, Valariana, Arsenic album).

Its antidote is sulphur.

It had been used as fly repellent.

Dose

3 to 6 drops.

Dilution.