7 Epic Survivalist Uses Apple Cider Vinegar

Prepare to be impressed. After reading this you may want to have a couple bottles of vinegar around the house just to show how smart and versatile you are!

Vinegar Use #7: Remedies Other Minor Ailments.
Hippocrates used apple cider vinegar as a tonic to relieve dozens of everyday ailments. Here are a few ways to use vinegar for your health.
•Soothes dry throats and coughs. Hippocrates prescribed a mix of honey and vinegar to soothe coughs. Gargle with vinegar and enjoy the benefits of fermentation!
•Relieves aching muscles.  In The Vinegar Book, pictured right, Emily Thacker explains how vinegar helps relieve night time leg cramps, and soothes sprained muscles. Vinegar relieves muscle pain from exercise or heavy work. Pour apple-cider vinegar into the tub (about a cup into the tub).

Vinegar Use #6: Soothes Skin.
Apple cider vinegar is a natural antibacterial and helps a variety of skin conditions from eczema to aging brown spots and even warts. In The Vinegar Book, pictured right, Emily Thacker explains how vinegar helps skin rashes, athletes foot, relieves insect bites, and provides corn and callus relief to feet. She's found 308 uses for vinegar. We've listed a few of those 308 uses below:
•Bites and stings. Vinegar helps sooth insect bites or Jellyfish stings. Just pour apple cider vinegar directly on the afflicted area. Pour vinegar on sunburn to sooth skin as well. Women's Health magazine offers the following recipe to soothe skin: “Add eight ounces of apple cider vinegar to a bathtub filled with warm water, and soak in it for 15 minutes.”
•Eczema. Here is a home remedy on how to treat eczema with vinegar.
•Sunburn. Soak a washcloth in vinegar to immediately feel the soothing benefits of vinegar. It does the trick to heal the pain.
•Wart removal. The component of vinegar, salicylic acid, is what you use on warts to remove them!
•Wound healing. Hippocrates used apple cider vinegar specifically for cleansing and healing wounds. Vinegar can kill bacterial pathogens. Vinegar has a smack of acetic acid, which is a powerful antiseptic.

Vinegar Use #5: Aids in Medical Conditions.
As Americans mix a deadly cocktail of steroids, hormones, and antibiotics for their “health,” it's nice to know that for preppers there's a natural remedy in apple cider vinegar! Used both internally and externally, apple cider vinegar can support health for a variety of medical conditions:
•Lowers cholesterol and supports the liver. Vinegar with a natural sediment of pectin, helps reduce cholesterol levels to lower the risk of cardiovascular disease! So says Emily Thacker in her popular and best selling book on Amazon, The Vinegar Book, pictured a the top right of the page. Dr. Axe also says if you can take just a teaspoon a day you are effectively lowering your cholesterol. The reason being that apple cider vinegar when consumed supports bile production to break down cholesterol.
•Helps diabetics maintain sugar levels. Take two teaspoons of apple cider vinegar in a glass of water daily for diabetic health. Vinegar has acetic acid which slows the digestion of starch and lowers the rise glucose. Discover the many benefits of apple cider vinegar for people with diabetes, and how it slows the rise of sugar in the blood.
•Supports weight loss, makes you feel more full. Apple cider vinegar has an alkaline effect on your body. According to Dr. Axe, the acedic acid in apple cider vinegar increases metabolism to support weight loss, but the real benefit to preppers is that apple cider vinegar makes you feel more full.
The healing powers of Vinegar, by Cal Orey, pictured above, is a book that explains vinegar's curative powers. Vinegar can help prevent age-related diseases like cancer, heart disease, and bone loss, among many other things according to the author. Put dozens more home remedies to work, including healing your arthritis, toothaches, treating allergies, and other pesky ailments.

Vinegar Use #4: Is an Incredible Superfood.
Apple cider vinegar adds nutritive value to your diet. It's an incredible superfood, according to Dr. Josh Axe! He also recommends apple cider vinegar for detoxification and improved digestion, as well as for a quick burst of energy.
•Nutritious. Apple Cider Vinegar is highly nutritious. It's rich in enzymes and minerals, such as calcium (for strong bones)' potassium (to help prevent brittle teeth, hair loss, and runny noses); pectin (); and magnesium.
•Energizes. For a quick burst of energy, take apple cider vinegar. according to Dr. Axe, it increases your energy!

Vinegar Use # 3: Is a Digestive tonic and probiotic.
Vinegar was a favorite of Hippocrates for good reason. Apple cider vinegar has a natural sediment with pectin, trace minerals, beneficial bacteria and it's loaded probiotic enzymes — it's an ideal concoction for digestion!
Vinegar is a cure all for bloating, gas, heartburn and indigestion, along with a host of other ailments. Vinegar promotes digestion and Ph balance and supports a healthy immune system. It helps remove toxins in the body and eases urinary tract infections, helping your body to heal itself.
•Cholera and dysentery; Pioneers also used vinegar as a digestive aid as they battled cholera along the Oregon Trail. There is no evidence that it worked against cholera, but certainly they used it for such.
•Fights acid reflux. In supporting digestion, apple cider vinegar again comes to the rescue!  Dr. Axe suggests taking one or two tablespoons apple cider vinegar in 8-oz of water before you eat.

Vinegar Use #2: Preserves and pickles food.
The reason you use vinegar in pickling is because the ph is highly alkaline. It's so high, in fact, that bacteria just can't grow. Vinegar will keep your produce from turning brown, too. As a natural food preservative, vinegar:
•Keeps produce from browning. Kids sometimes won't eat cut apples that brown, but vinegar can do the trick to make this healthful snack look more appetizing. You can prevent cut apples, pears or even potatoes from darkening by placing your produce in a bowl of water with just two tablespoons of white vinegar until ready to use. That's just enough vinegar to work the magic and not affect the taste.
•Preserves olives and pimentos. Vinegar also helps olives and pimentos last indefinitely in your refrigerator.
•Pickles vegetables. Take a cucumber, add vinegar and soon you'll have a pickle! Now you know (just in case you thought pickles came from a zucchini).
•Pickles eggs. Preppers often want to preserve eggs and pickling is an easy way to do just that. Here's how to make a dozen pickled eggs…

Vinegar Use # 1: Helps Around The Kitchen.
Apple cider vinegar is an exceptional product in the kitchen (and not just because it adds a tart flavor to your foods). Here are some interesting uses of apple cider vinegar around the kitchen:
•Cleans in an environmentally and budget friendly way.  Vinegar is a safe bleach alternative for kitchen cleaning and has the benefit of being biodegradable. While vinegar is an acid and might not be suitable for all surfaces, it's certainly an inexpensive way to clean without chemicals. It works wonderfully to clean cutting boards and food preparation surfaces.
•Unclogs the kitchen sink. In combination with baking soda, vinegar will create an effervescent scrubbing action that simultaneously deodorizes your kitchen sink and help it unclog.
•Washes fruits and veggies. Food contamination can cause gut problems. As a vegetable wash, vinegar will make your produce safe for consumption. As well, it gives a lift to wilted vegetables when you soak in cold water and a spoonful of vinegar. This helps improve the color and taste as well.
•Helps scale fish! If you're fishing for time (and who isn't these days?), then this idea is for you. Just rub your fish with apple cider vinegar a few minutes before scaling and you'll make the process a whole lot easier. What a time saver it is!
•Acts as a meat tenderizer (and marinade). In addition to helping you with fish, vinegar marinates beef, venison, ham or poultry as a meat tenderizer. This is the reason commercial marinades contain vinegar. You can make your own marinade and save money.
•Enhances nutrients in soups. Apple cider vinegar brings out the nutrients of bone broth, so your soups are not only more delicious, they are more nutritious!

Wow, bet you didn’t realize just how useful vinegar is!

But this is just short list. It actually does far more than what is listed here! For more data about vinegar go to Happy Preppers and read the rest of the list. There are many little tips and tricks for vinegar use you never thought about!

Not bad for a smelly, vulgar tasting liquid, eh?


25 Comments

  1. Freddie Serna said:

    One ounce of apple cider vinegar a day helps to keep kidney stones from forming. I have first hand knowledge on this. It works. I drink a 16 ounce glass of fruit juice (cranberry mixture of your choosing) with one ounce of apple cider vinegar every morning. It is rather tart so I have it with ice.

  2. Vernon Lindbloom said:

    Promotes strong acid stomach which makes a good alkaline body. This is what the immune system needs to fight disease such as cancer.

  3. Jim Klawinski said:

    I’m going to incorporate more Apple cider vinegar in my life. Thanks for this important info

  4. Donald Maxwell said:

    Good for cockroach kill too. head lice kill bed bug kill many many more bug kill. for lice wash hair and clothing and sheet pillow case in and spay the bed down with it. Also spray around on carpet to kill out bug’s and kill bad smells. .

  5. Tony Santurio said:

    It was the answer for my shingles. My Dr. gave a prescription for it that would have cost me about $267.00 that I did not have. I went home did some research and I found that a mixture of Apple cider vinegar and cayenne pepper applied to the area over night, cleared it almost immediately, for much lass money. I have a problem with gerd, I drink 2 tablespoons of Apple cider vinegar and it not only clears my sinuses but it also calms down my gerd to almost nothing.

  6. Justin Weaver said:

    I raise pigeons and mix it in the water. They are look and act healthier when they are on it daily.

  7. Curt Henderson said:

    I hate this format. All the adds and the page keeps jumping up and down, its a pain in the$#%&!@* Sorry but I am not the only one that thinks this. Plus it runs up my data usage. So I am not going to use this format anymore.

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