Little Healer

Lúta smiled at the pup, she seemed so sweet and eager to learn. Lúta nodded. "Yes, we want to get at the inner bark of the elderberry. It can help with upper respirator infections. But it doesn't taste very good and you don't want to give someone too much or they'll puke." She felt it was important to explain some of the downfalls of using a tree bark in healing. Poor taste and too much leading to vomiting were pretty common. "You'll want to snip off one of the branches then use your teeth to peel back the outer bark, like this."

Lúta reached up and snipped off one of the higher branches, leaving the shorter ones for the pup. Thankfully elderberry was more a cross between a tree and a shrub than a full on tree and thus was shorter than might be expected. Once she had her branch she set it down between her paws and used her teeth to cut a slit in the bark. with that done she started using her teeth and claws to remove the outer bark, revealing the pale inner bark. "Do you want to give it a try now?"