Apple cider vinegar gets its nutrients from fermented crushed apples.
Apple cider vinegar has been a folk remedy since biblical times. In 400 B.C., Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, prescribed apple cider vinegar to his patients. Even today, it is touted as a cure for everything from bed wetting and warts to baldness and heart disease. In fact, apple cider vinegar is made from a mixture of fermented crushed apples. It is rich in acetic acid, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and amino acids, and these ingredients are responsible for its healing properties.
Instructions
1. To relieve the pain and sting of mild sunburn, fill a tub with lukewarm water. Add 2 cups of apple cider vinegar. Soak for about an hour. After bathing, dab a cotton ball soaked in undiluted apple cider vinegar over any areas of your body that are still burning, then swab with cooling aloe vera gel. Leave on overnight.
2. Relieve food poisoning with a mix of 2 tsp. of apple cider vinegar in 1 cup of lukewarm water. Repeat often throughout the day. The University of Maryland Medical Center recommends this traditional remedy for its possible antimicrobial effects, although it has not been scientifically studied.
