USED FOR ALMOST EVERYTHING: APPLE CIDER VINEGAR

 

Apple cider vinegar (ACV) is another remedy that has more uses than I can list here - do some research! It’s amazing stuff.

Always buy raw, unpasteurised ACV (Apple Cider Vinegar) that contains the ‘mother’. You can tell it’s the good stuff by looking through the bottle - it will have the cloudy sediment which is the ‘mother’ floating around the bottom of the bottle. If the ACV you’re looking at is all clear and clean looking (as most of those that you find in the supermarket are), it’s pasteurized and won’t have the same health giving effects.

Of course you can use ACV on salads and in dressings, but it can also be used in other ways.

You can take it in water on a daily basis. The recommendation is 2 tablespoons daily added to water and sipped throughout the day (although some people take more). When I first started taking ACV I personally found this too much for me every day as it seemed to upset my belly, so I started with only half a teaspoon to a teaspoon a day and then gradually increased it. I now take two tablespoons in water every morning with no problems.

Taken in water it helps with weight loss. It also helps with tummy upsets and can be useful if you think you might have eaten something that’s going to give you a dose of food poisoning! It can help to stop diarrhea in it’s tracks also.

Add it to your pets water also, to keep them healthy - they’ll love you for it.

ACV can be used externally on skin complaints and as I described earlier, I used it in my poultice with slippery elm and lavender oil with amazing success for my spider bite!

As I already said, do some more learning on this one - it’s amazing the results some people get with this. Experiment for yourself and see how you go with it.

A great way to take ACV is to mix it not only with water, but add some liquid stevia and vanilla essence to sweeten.