Healing properties of the apple cider vinegar

Apple cider vinegar lowers blood pressure, helps with throat pain, digestion problem, it can improve blood circulation and helps with weight loss.

Salads couldn't be imagined without vinegar and the best vinegar is apple cider vinegar, which is at the same time extraordinary remedy. Experts consider that apple cider vinegar should become part of the everyday diet.

To show it's remedy characteristics, it should be taken everyday. Dissolve 2 teaspoons of vinegar in warm water (you can boil water) and also you can add 2 teaspoons of honey.

For itching of the skin is recommended to rub diluted vinegar over itching spots, which is also good for healthy skin. These acid baths give softness and moisture to the skin.

In sportsman`s diet apple cider vinegar and its mixture with honey should take special place. This is recommended because apple cider vinegar is rich with potassium which affects on muscles and nerves and also on biochemical processes on a cellular level. Therefore, if you feel weakness, sleepiness, spasms and pain in muscles that is because you miss potassium. Apple cider vinegar therapy will prove you that soon.

Depending on the health problems, vinegar can be applied in different ways:

- Against chronicle tiredness you should mix 3 teaspoons apple cider vinegar with a cup of honey. All of that pour into a jar and every night before sleep take 2 teaspoons of that mixture.

- Against high blood pressure you should drink a glass of water mixed with 2 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar 3 times a day.

- Against headache you should mix 2 teaspoons of honey and 2 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar and drink that once a day.

- Against sinus pain you should drink one tablespoon mixed in a glass of water 7 times a day.

- For gargle you should pour one teaspoon of apple cider vinegar in the glass of water and gargle every two hours

- For joint pains you should cover pain spots with linen fabric which is well soaked with apple cider vinegar. Then you have to put dry cotton patch. Beside that you should take a glass of water in which is diluted 10 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar with every meal.

- For burns you should put apple cider vinegar on the burned spot several times a day. That will prevent appearing of a blister and ease the pain.

- For eczema you should put on apple cider vinegar four times a day and three times during the night. Eczema followed with itch will soon disappear.

- For varicose veins you should rub the skin over varicose veins with pure apple cider vinegar every morning and evening. Beside that you should drink a glass of water mixed with 2 teaspoons with apple cider vinegar twice a day. This therapy lasts two months.

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How to make homemade apple cider vinegar

As its name says apple cider vinegar is made out of apples. Amount of apples that you use depends on how much space and time you have. If you have bigger dishes and place where you can keep them, or if you spend a lot of vinegar, then you can make vinegar from more apples.

If you ask me, i would make vinegar from 10kg (22.05 pounds) of apples.

The biggest problem is to find organic apples. If you don't have your own apples or don't know anyone who does, it will be difficult to find real organic apples. All apples are treated, more or less, with some kind of chemicals. Surely, for vinegar you will not need the biggest and the most beautiful ones. Choose the cheapest and less beautiful, just watch not to be dried or rotten.

First, you have to wash and clean them. Throw out the seeds. Now you have to grind them in blender or some other way. Put the grinded apples in the barrel or a jar (depends on how much apples you use). Now you have to squeeze apples to let their juice, you can do it with hands or with the bottom of a glass bottle.

When you squeeze the apples, pour water over them. Before that you have to dissolve sugar in water (for 10kg (22.05 pounds) of apples you need about 400g of sugar and at least 4l of water)

If apples are sour or unripe you should put more sugar (900g for 10kg (22.05 pounds) of apples). Actually how much water you will use depends on how juicy apples are. If you put more water you will have more vinegar, but vinegar will be milder - that should not be your goal. The water is added because it is important that apples are not without juice. They must be in the water or in their own juice, they should not be dry.

If there is no liquid there will not be vinegar and beside that if the blend is too dry there are better chances to get spoiled. Keep in mind not to fill dish entirely because blend could get out. Leave at least 1/4 of the dish empty.

Dish with apples cover with gauze. Do not keep the dish sealed because you don't need alcohol only vinegar.

Sugar is an important ingredient for fermentation. It is also important for bacteria growth, which in the end will give vinegar from apples and sugar.

Apple fermentation takes about ten days in a warm place (you can put them on the balcony on the sun). At the start when it starts to ferment, apples will swim on the surface. A sign that the fermentation is completed is when apples sank at the bottom (under one condition - if you pour enough water, as I said at the start). Take ten days, roughly, it depends of warmth. If it is hotter the fermentation will end soon.

When it ends ferment you should filter vineger out of apples in the bigger glass bottle. Filtered vinegar should keep in cold and dark place like a basement or storage room.

On every ten days you should filter vinegar through gauze into another bottle, to get cleaner vinegar. This is the process for what you should have nerves and patience, because it needs to be repeated several times. The more times you filter your vinegar it will be cleaner. Also, it is normal that on the surface of the vinegar forms mold and you should throw that when you filter vinegar.

Vinegar is ready for use first time you filter him, but as a wine if it stays longer it will get better, it will taste and smell better. Since I made vinegar for years, currently I use vinegar which is two years old.
It`s great!

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