Remedy/Plants/Adoxaceae

Adoxaceae, commonly known as the moschatel family, is a small family of flowering plants in the order Dipsacales, now consisting of five genera and about 150–200 species.

Sambucus callicarpa
The seeds of Sambucus callicarpa are poisonous and may cause vomiting or diarrhea.

Sambucus mexicana
In August 1983, a group of 25 people in Monterey County, California, became suddenly ill by ingesting elderberry juice pressed from fresh, uncooked Sambucus mexicana berries, leaves, and stems.

The blue or Mexican elderberry, Sambucus mexicana, is now generally treated as one or two subspecies of ''Sambucus nigra subsp. canadensis and Sambucus nigra subsp. caerulea''.

Sambucus nigra
The density of cyanogenic glycosides is higher in tea made from flowers (or leaves) than from the berries.

Sambucus palmensis
The various species of Sambucus are commonly called elder or elderberry.

Although the cooked berries (pulp and skin) of most species of Sambucus are edible, the uncooked berries and other parts of plants from this genus are poisonous. Leaves, twigs, branches, seeds, roots, flowers, and berries of Sambucus plants produce cyanogenic glycosides, which have toxic properties. Ingesting a sufficient quantity of cyanogenic glycosides from berry juice, flower tea, or beverages made from fresh leaves, branches, and fruit has been shown to cause adverse events, including nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, diarrhea, and weakness. The density of cyanogenic glycosides is higher in tea made from flowers (or leaves) than from the berries.

Sambucus peruviana
The leaves, flowers and fruits have medicinal properties; analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, sudorific.

Viburnum lentago
As suggested by the alternative name sweet viburnum, the fruit is (unlike that of many viburnums) edible.