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The Miracle of Apple Cider Vinegar

I was doing some research on apple cider vinegar and came across this wonderful article about the benefits of apple cider vinegar and its many simple and helpful uses. Thanks Yumi!

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10 Green DIY Home, Health and Beauty Tips: The Miracle of Apple Cider Vinegar
by Yumi Sakugawa

Apple cider vinegar is my favorite new DIY household product. Just as how baking soda has a huge range of uses from personal self-care to household cleaning (see this fabulous post by Olivia here), apple cider vinegar can do pretty much anything–for your skin, your hair, your house, and even your pets.applephoto.jpg

I learned about apple cider vinegar when I was researching ways to get rid of the fleas that had unfortunately begun cropping up in my apartment from my roommates’ two cats. Apple cider vinegar, apparently, when rubbed on the pet and added to the pet’s water, can greatly help repel the fleas from the animal.

Why should we all start using more apple cider vinegar? First of all, apple cider vinegar is a completely natural product: apple juice is fermented to hard apple cider, which is fermented a second time to apple cider vinegar. In integrating this natural product into our homes, we instantly decrease the consumption of unnatural chemicals in our daily lives.

Here are many other benefits of apple cider vinegar that can be applied to your lifestyle. Read the list below.

BEAUTY:

Hair: It is widely known that apple cider vinegar can be used as a rinse for your hair after shampooing to add healthy body and shine. Recyle an old shampoo bottle and fill it with 1/2 a table spoon of apple cider vinegar and a cup of cold water. Pour through your hair after shampooing several times a week.

Face: Did you know that apple cider vinegar can help regulate the pH of your skin? Dilute apple cider vinegar with two parts water, and spread the concoction over your face with a cotton ball as a toner. You can do this at night after washing, and in the morning before you apply your moisturizer. You can also dab apple cider vinegar directly onto age spots and leave them on overnight to lighten their color.

Hands and Feet: Are your hands and feet feeling tired and swollen after a long day? Treat yourself to a personal spa massage by rubbing apple cider vinegar onto them.

Sunburn: Suffering from a bad sunburn? Add a cup of apple cider vinegar to your bath and soak for 10 minutes.

Teeth: Did you know that apple cider vinegar can help remove stains from teeth? Rub teeth directly with apple cider vinegar and rinse out.

Aftershave: Fill a bottle with equal parts apple cider vinegar and water and shake to blend.

HEALTH:

Weight-Loss: For daily weight and pH balance maintenance, add 2 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar to 16 oz of water. Sip this concoction throughout the day.

Detox: Add 2 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar to a 1 or 2 liter filtered water bottle. Drink this throughout the day to cleanse your body and kidneys all day long.

HOME AND PETS

Cleaning: Mix 1/2 cup of apple cider vinegar with 1 cup water. You can use this concoction to clean microwaves, bathroom tiles, kitchen surfaces, windows, glasses and mirrors. This mixture also works as a disinfectant.

Flea Reduction: Rub apple cider vinegar onto your pet’s skin. Add a little bit of apple cider vinegar to their water. Spray apple cider vinegar, diluted 50% with water, onto your pets and onto your furniture to repel the presence of fleas.


Source: Intent.com / Yumi’s Blog

Oct 27, 2009

Amazing Water Therapy

When you go to sleep for eight hours, your 100 Trillion cells are screaming for water, when you wake up. If you go have a cup of coffee (the caffeine tightens the tissue reducing circulation) and a donut ( which absorbs any available water and takes it out through the intestines) your 100 Trillion cells are still screaming for water.

Since you ignored your opportunity to hydrate the cells, they start dying at an abnormal rate. This large number of dehydrated, dead cells clog your circulatory system, kidneys and liver. Any food you eat during the day absorbs any available water.

Plus, it takes time to replace the dead cells, so your body is cluttered with dead cell toxins and replacement of new cells cannot be done at the normal rate, so you bloat up with toxins and your body over time is deprived of many of the cells that are needed for optimum function.

You can imagine what happens as this process takes place over time. You become diseased from the toxin accumulation and age sooner from the lost cells. So, it behooves any one who wishes to stay on the air to be a firm user of this wonderful technique.

PROCEDURE

– Early morning, after you get up from bed, (without even brushing your teeth) drink 1.50 liters of water i.e., 5 to 6 glasses. You may wash your face after.

– Here it is very essential to note that nothing else, neither drinks nor solid food of any sort should be taken within 1 hour before and after drinking these 1.5 liters of water.

– If required, boiled and filtered water may be used for this purpose.

– It can be difficult to drink 1.5 liters of water at one time, but you will get used to it gradually. Sometimes a large straw is helpful.

– Initially, while practicing you may drink four glasses first and to balance two glasses after a gap of two minutes.

– You may find the necessity to urinate 2 to 3 times within an hour, but it will become normal after quite some time.

(Personally, I continue to drink water throughout the day, at least 1 glass every 2 hrs.)

WHAT CAN BE TREATED WITH WATER THERAPY

– Blood Pressure/Hyper Tension

– Anemia (Blood Shortage/Iron Defficiency)

– Rheumatism (Pain in joints/muscles)

– General Paralysis

– Obesity

– Arthritis

– Sinusitis

– Tachycardia

– Giddiness

– Cough

– Leukemia

– Asthma

– Bronchitis

– Pulmonary Tuberculosis

– Meningitis

– Kidney Stones

– Urogenital Diseases

– Hyper Acidity

– Dysentery

– Gastroenteritis

– Uterus Cancer

– Rectal Piodapse

– Constipation

– Hostorthobics

– Diabetes

– Eye Diseases

– Ophthalmic Hemorrhage & Opthalmia (Reddish eye)

– Irregular Menstruation

– Breast Cancer

– Laryngitis

– Headache

RESEARCH & EXPERIENCE

The following dis-eases observed to be cured with this therapy within the indicated days as below:

– Constipation – 1 day

– Acidity – 2 days

– Diabetes – 7 days

– Cancer – 4 weeks

– Pulmonary TB – 3 months

– BP & Hypertension – 4 weeks

**Note: It is advised that persons suffering from Arthritis or Rheumatism should practice this therapy thrice a day, i.e. morning, midday and night, 1 hour before meals for one week; and twice a day subsequently until the disease disappears.

HOW DOES PURE WATER ACT?

Consuming ordinary drinking water by the right method purifies human body. It renders the colon more effective by forming new fresh blood, known in medical terms as “Haematopaises”

That the mucousal folds of the colon and intestines are activated by this method, is an undisputed fact, just as the theory that new fresh blood is produced by the mucousal fold.

If the colon is cleansed then the nutrients of the food taken several times a day will be absorbed and by the action of the mucousal folds they are turned into fresh blood. The blood is all important in curing ailments and restoring health and for this to occur water should be consumed in a regular pattern.

EAT FRESH FRUITS

We all think eating fruits means simply buying fruit, cutting it and just popping it into our mouths.
You will benefit much more, if you know how and when to eat fruit.

Fruits should be taken on an empty stomach and not as dessert after the meal as is often done.
If you eat fruit like that, it will also serve a major role to detoxify your system, supplying you with a great deal of energy for weight loss and other life activities.

*Let us say you eat two slices of bread … and then a slice of fruit.

As fruit digests faster than bread, the slice of fruit digests quickly and is ready to go straight through the stomach into the intestines, but its passage is blocked by the bread which takes longer to digest.
In the meantime the whole meal ferments and turns to acid.
Consequently, when the fruit comes into contact with the food in the stomach and digestive juices, the entire mass of food begins to spoil!

So it is better to eat your fruits in an empty stomach or before your meals.
You have heard people complaining:

– every time I eat watermelon I burp

– when I eat durian my stomach bloats up

– when I eat banana I feel like running to the toilet

– maybe I should’ve not had that apple

The fruit mixes with the putrefying other food and produces gas and hence you will bloat! Actually, all this will not arise, if you eat the fruit on an empty stomach.

Graying hair, balding, nervous outbursts, dark circles under the eyes – all these will not happen if you eat fruit on an empty stomach.

It is incorrectly presumed that some fruits, like orange and lemon are acidic and will enhance acidity in the stomach. Research however shows that all fruits become alkaline in our body.

FRUIT JUICE

Drink only fresh fruit juice, NOT from the cans.

Don’t drink juice that has been heated up.

Don’t eat cooked fruits because you don’t get the nutrients at all. You only get the taste.
So stop making durian porridge if you want nutrients. Cooking fruit destroys all the vitamins.

Eating the pulp or whole fruit is far better than drinking the juice as the fiber is good for you.

If you should drink the juice, drink it mouthful by mouthful slowly, because you must let it mix with your saliva before swallowing it.

FRUIT FAST

A 3 day “fruit fast” is a very simple and effective way to cleanse and detoxify your body.
Just eat fruits and drink fruit juice throughout the 3 days and you will be surprised when your friends tell you how radiant you look!
During the “fruit fast” you can eat different fruits at different times, although occasionally mixed fruit salad would also be permissible and more interesting.

If you have mastered the correct way of eating fruits, you have the secret of beauty, longevity, health, energy, happiness and normal weight.


by By Dr.Mahmoud Hussain – IBN SINA COMPANY

10 BENEFITS OF ORGANIC COCONUT OIL

Used in tropical cultures as a nutritious diet staple for many centuries, organic coconut oil can help:

1. Keep You Healthy and Slim You can help boost and regulate your metabolism to keep your weight under control with this wonder oil.

2. Support Your Immune System Organic coconut oil is jam-packed with lauric acid, the immune supporting nutrient.

3. Promote Heart Health Packed full of healthy fats that are good for your heart, organic coconut oil is a great addition to your daily diet.

4. Give You Instant Energy Organic coconut oil can help you feel less fatigued and require less sleep by stimulating your metabolism. It can also enhance athletic performance.

5. Support Healthy Thyroid Function Organic coconut oil helps to stimulate the activity and proper functioning of this important gland which provides energy, supports the health of your skin and metabolism, and keeps your moods in balance.

6. Help Keep Your Skin Youthful, Smooth & Healthy Looking Using organic virgin coconut oil as a lotion will help improve your skin, hair, and nails due to its moisturizing and smoothing effects that also promote elasticity.

7. Increase Cell Regeneration When your metabolic rate increases, your cell regeneration speeds up, too. This means that your body will more quickly replace old cells with newer, healthier cells.

8. Promote Anti-Viral, Anti-Fungal, and Anti-Bacterial Activity Teeming with lauric acid, organic coconut oil possesses abundant natural agents that may reduce fungus, bacteria and the viruses that cause influenza, herpes, and other illnesses.

9. Improve Insulin Secretion This helps to better utilize glucose to balance insulin output which can help relieve the symptoms and reduce the health risks associated with diabetes.

10. Protect Your Body from Disease Organic coconut oil may help protect your body from cell damaging free radicals.

Source: Global Healing Center

Molasses Cures

Thanks to the wonderful feedback we have received over the past eight years, blackstrap molasses appears to be making headlines as one of the best home remedies around! We have emails from our readers about blackstrap molasses curing cancerous tumors, fibroid tumors, anxiety, constipation, edema, heart palpitations, anemia, arthritic pain, joint pain, and acne, just to name a few. It has also been reported that molasses turns gray hair back to its original color and is a wonderful skin softener!

TRADITIONAL RECIPE:
1 Tablespoon of Blackstrap Molasses, first thing in the morning.

EARTH CLINIC’S ICED MOLASSES RECIPE:
1 TBLS Blackstrap Molasses
Hot Water
3/4 cup Milk or Soymilk
Ice

Add molasses to a glass and add just enough hot water to cover the molasses. Stir until dissolved. Add ice and then top off with either Milk or Soymilk. Avoiding milk?’Try vanilla or chocolate soymilk. Even yummier is to blend the whole concoction.

WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MOLASSES AND BLACKSTRAP MOLASSES?
Regular ole molasses is the first or second boiling of cane sugar syrup while blackstrap is the third boiling of the syrup. Iron levels appear to increase 5% in the 3rd boiling (see Nutritional Chart).

Folk Remedies and Holistic Cures – EARTHCLINIC.COM