Health Improvements Using Vinegar
January 5th, 2009If you think trying to improve your health with vinegar is a new idea then you would be totally wrong, as it has been used in folk medicine for many years to promote health and well being in animals and humans alike. In fact it has been used in one form or another for more than ten thousand years and in this time has played an important role as a condiment, sanitizer, preservative, antiseptic, medicine and beauty aid.
Vinegar is made when any alcoholic liquid ferments. It is easy to see why you can improve your health with vinegar, as when naturally fermented it contains no fat, is low sodium and a rich source of trace elements, vitamins and minerals including sulfur, magnesium, iron, calcium, phosphorus plus enzymes which contribute to wellness.
When buying vinegar to improve your health read the labels and look for the words organic, pure, unfiltered or aged in wood. These varieties are more likely to be found in a health food shop rather than on the supermarket shelves, and come at a higher cost. But paying a higher cost ensures that you stay away from diluted, highly filtered, over processed and over heated brands. Everyone by now knows and loves the taste of the sweet dark, expensive balsamic vinegars.
Vinegar comes from many sources with different flavours and aromas even in today’s modern supermarket. Vinegar can also be made from potatoes, melons, honey, molasses, beets, sorghum, maple syrup, cactus, grapes and coconuts. A vinegar that has the highest nutritional value is apple cider vinegar and is readily available.
Even as far back as the Stone Age vinegar was used as a means of getting healthy, and Greek and Roman soldiers used it as a source of power and strength, as did Japanese Samurai warriors. It is excellent for digesting high protein meals and heavy foods and may explain why it is a favorite with “Fish and Chips” one of the favored foods in our diet, and the mint sauce accompaniment with Lamb.
Looking at other ways to improve your health with vinegar brings us to taking stock of a short list with more information in further articles to come: Effective fighter of bacterial and fungal infections Dandruff and flaky scalp rinse. Enzymes to help keep your gallbladder healthy Aides indigestion and liver stagnation Painful arthritis and osteoporosis even aides memory loss For the relief athlete’s foot when used in a footbath Ear infections in children Blood pressure regulator Dietary aide in losing weight
If you are a keen gardener, you can also improve your health with vinegar by using it as a preventative measure against backache especially as vinegar will kill those prolific nuisance weeds like Clover, Dandelion, Thistle and Ragweed thus easing the strain on your back by not having to wrestle with stubborn weeds. The multiple health benefits abound when you use vinegar to get rid of weeds because the chemicals found in many synthetic weed killers can be extremely dangerous to our pets, the wildlife in our gardens, and not to forget, to us and our children.
If you are interested in organic gardening then vinegar is considered biodegradable and therefore comes into this category. I have it on good authority that there is no need to worry Worried about the PH levels in your soil when using vinegar? Well there is no need, because although vinegar decreases PH levels it is an organic substance and it will restore to its original PH within two days.
Therefore you can improve your health with vinegar, keep your garden weed free and thriving, without the backache of pulling each weed by hand