Earl Mindell - Dr. Earl Mindells Amazing Apple Cider Vinegar

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The Miraculous Virtues of Vinegar

It Didnt Just Fall Off the Applecart

Vim and Vinegar from Head to Toe

The Cleaning Power of Sour

Cooking with Vinegar

My Comprehensive Plan

The Miraculous Virtues of Vinegar

You may already use vinegar to dress your salad, wash your windows, or clean out your coffeepot, but youre about to discover a great many more uses for those bottles of pungent liquid that sit on your pantry shelf.

In the pages of this book, youll find out about vinegars 10,000-year history as both food and medicine. Youll learn about the different varieties of vinegar made from grains and fruit by cultures around the globe, and about the tastes, healing properties, and brewing methods of vinegars worldwide. If youre a do-it-yourselfer, youll be pleased to know that Ive even included detailed instructions for brewing your own apple cider vinegar. Brewing your own can be challenging, but its the very best way to be sure your vinegar is chock-full of nutrients and healing power.

Vinegarespecially apple cider vinegarhas some astounding health-protective properties, whether you swallow it or use it topically. Ill tell you about vinegars uses as a time-honored, trusted home remedy for every ill from acne to yeast infections. Each splash of apple cider vinegar delivers key vitamins, including the antioxidant beta-carotene. Its also bursting with healthful acids, enzymes, a valuable form of dietary fiber called pectin, and over a dozen minerals.

Did you know that vinegar is also a useful cosmetic aid? Once youve learned about all the ways vinegar can beautify your skin and hair, you may want to clear a lot of those bottles, jars, and tubes of expensive chemical-laden beauty products out of your life, and replace them with a bottle of the golden elixir made from natures bountiful apple trees. You can use it to treat unsightly blemishes and itchy insect bites, and it will even help to beautify and freshen your pets!

Homemade vinegar preparations have more household uses than any toxic store-bought chemical. Vinegar is a highly effective and completely nontoxic cleanser, disinfectant, odor eliminator, stain remover, and fabric softener. Ill give you specific recipes for all of these uses and more.

You can use vinegar in every course of a meal, from appetizer to dessert. Ill share with you a few of my favorite recipes that include vinegar, as well as directions for bottling your own delectable and beautiful herb and floral vinegars. Holiday gift giving will be a little easierjust follow the instructions for making these vinegars, tie a ribbon around the neck of the bottle, and presto! Youll be pleasing the eyes and palates of the recipients, as well as supporting their good health.

Once youve read this book, youll feel good about adding vinegar to your life no matter how or when you do so. As miraculous as these healing and household benefits may be, however, keep in mind that vinegar is only one part of a healthy lifestyle. At the end of this book Ill share with you, in a condensed form, my tips for embracing that beneficial way of living.

Yours in good health,
Dr. Earl Mindell

It Didnt Just Fall Off the Applecart

As far back as 5000 B.C.E., vinegar was made by the Babylonians, who did this by fermenting the fruit of the date palm. Ancient Egyptian urns dating back to 3000 B.C.E., when analyzed by modern scientists, have been found to contain vinegar residues; early Greek and Roman artwork featured vessels of vinegar. In 400 B.C.E., Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, prescribed vinegar for a variety of ills.

During Biblical times, vinegar was used to dress wounds and sores, speeding their healing. Vinegar is mentioned no less than eight times in the Bible, with four references in the Old Testament and four in the New Testament. During the time of Jesus Christ, vinegar was valued both as a condiment and a medicine. Ruth 2:14 states, Boaz said unto her, At mealtime comest thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip the morsel in the vinegar. In the Holy Land, two stone jugs were kept in the jails next to the wall where prisoners were bound for flogging. One contained soothing, healing oil, and the other contained antiseptic vinegar.