Elderberries

Like many others here, I avoid immune-boosting herbs and stick to immune-modulating herbs instead. Taking elderberry (in the form of a concentrated medicinal syrup) seems to cause some auto-inflammatory symptoms for me.

In my garden I have a giant, productive elderberry bush, laden with ripe elderberries. I'm trying to figure out what to do with them. I don't plan to make them into medicinal syrup, but some people eat them baked into muffins or pancakes, or dry them and use them as one might use dried cranberries. Does anyone have any sense of how many elderberries one would have to consume to equal a dose of the concentrated syrup?

The birds and squirrels will be happy to eat them for me, but I'd like to use a few, if anyone has some ideas.

yeah - some people are more sensitive to them than others - but defo strong nausea causing action s well known until cooked / boiled for around 30mins - not toxic as such - just makes you nauseas/ vomit.

i make an elderberry syrup/jelly with them - can dig up the recipe if you would like it - it was based on something buhner wrote - - but basically boil them with some sugar to make it as strong a syrup as possible - then add alcohol to around 20% to make sure its is preserved indefinitely.

use as a cold remedy / or any sign of sore throat etc

one year i also made a few gallons of desert wine using them - was port like and really rather wonderful