Apple Cider Vinegar

Apple Cider Vinegar
by Djehuty Ma'at-Ra





We get a lot of inquiries here at Dherbs.com about apple cider vinegar due to confusion based on regular white distilled vinegar. People simply trust our health advice and suggestions and we pride ourselves in disseminating facts and truth, especially in regards to human health and wellbeing.

Of all the various kinds of vinegars in existence and use, the BEST by far is apple cider vinegar! And the best brand of apple cider vinegar is Bragg's (available at most health food stores, i.e. Whole Foods Market, Nature Mart [Los Angeles, CA], Sevananda [Atlanta, GA], Natural Grocers [Northern California], Erewhon [Los Angeles, CA], New Frontiers [Sedona, AZ], et al.

Whereas white distilled vinegar is 100% acidic (and thus dangerous inside the human body), apple cider vinegar has a much higher pH level than regular white distilled vinegar and other kinds of vinegars, i.e. brown rice vinegar, plum vinegar, etc.

Apple cider vinegar has a pH of 4.5. It was even used by the father of Western medicine, Hippocrates, who used the vinegar for healing and cleansing purposes.

What I like most about apple cider vinegar is that it is a great natural source of potassium (apples are rich in potassium). Potassium deficiency can be corrected with apple cider vinegar. This vinegar does so much!

A teaspoon of it in a glass of room temperature water every morning will help prevent joints from aching. It's a great tonic in preventing and healing Arthritis and tendonitis.

Apple cider vinegar helps the body eliminate harmful toxic waste (due to its malic acid content), helps remedy sore throat and laryngitis, strengthens the heart, help prevent muscle soreness and aching joints, improves digestion, helps dissolves calculi (kidney, bladder, and gall stones), helps dissolve mucus accumulation in the body, aids the body in fasting due to its nutritional value and content (potassium, copper, iron, fluorine, phosphorus, sodium, magnesium, etc.); helps keep arteries soften, and a plethora of other beneficial actions that greatly benefit the body.

When I make henna for my hair maintenance, instead of using regular distilled vinegar, I use apple cider vinegar. Apple cider vinegar is beneficial to hair because of its healthy acidic level. Apple cider vinegar can also be used for irritating scalp conditions:

"The high acidity (organic malic acid) plus powerful enzymes (life chemicals) in ACV kill the bottle bacillus, a germ responsible for many scalp and hair conditions. The problems caused by bottle bacillus include itching scalp, dandruff, thinning hair and often baldness. Every hair has its own oil can. Bottle bacilli clogs the openings. Scales and small dry crusts are formed. Itching and dandruff result. The oil-starved hairs either fall out or break off, causing thinning of the hair and often baldness. Apple cider vinegar not only kills bottle bacillus, but stimulates the oil cans to healthier, balanced activity. Pour two tablespoons ACV in cup. Moisten cotton with water, then soak in the ACV. Part the hair in sections, and apply directly to scalp. Leave on for at least 15 minutes, up to two or three hours, before shampooing… this helps to restore the proper acid/alkaline balance to scalp. For acute cases, this should be done daily or before every shampoo. For a healthy, after shampoo rinse (also for body) add 1/3 cup apple cider vinegar to quart of rinse water." - Paul C. Bragg

If you must use vinegar for food preparation, by all means opt for apple cider vinegar. Don't trip on the dark color and dark, cobweb mother floating in apple cider vinegar (usually seen at the bottom of the bottle unless shaken up whereby it rises to the top). This is the mark of apple cider vinegar. The mother develops due to the natural fermentation process, usually done in wooden barrels.

Commercial vinegars are distilled so as to remove the mother that results from the natural fermentation process. It is done all for eye appeal, but eye appeal does not determine nutritional value and content.

Well, I hope this article helps you in understanding the difference between apple cider vinegar and regular distilled vinegar (most of which are not even made from corn anymore but are made from 100% man-made synthetic chemicals).

If you're in doubt about apple cider vinegar, doubt no more. It's the best vinegar on the market.

Rice vinegar and plum vinegar are also better sources of vinegar than regular white distilled vinegar. But again, apple cider vinegar is the BEST!

Thank you for reading!

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