APPLECIDER VINEGAR ( ACV )- BENEFITS
For centuries, the benefits from cider vinegar to fight infection, promote digestion, fighting osteoporosis, have been well known.
Every home with dogs should have Apple Cider Vinegar. It has multiple uses for dogs: alleviating allergies, arthritis, establishing correct pH balance of the system.
One of the first goals on the way to great health is to restore the body's pH to the alkaline range. As nearly all chronic illness takes place in a body that has become acidic due to the gradual depletion of its mineral reserves, it is logical to check on the body's acid/alkaline balance and work towards maintaining it in the alkaline range. The state of the body's acid/alkaline balance can be easily measured by testing the urine using pH strips.
Added to the drinking water, ACV has shown to maintain the acid/alkaline balance of the digestive tract. To find your dog's pH level, get some pH strips at your local drugstore, first thing in the morning test your dog's urine. If the strip reads from 6.5 - 7.0, then your dog's system is what it should be. If the pH is higher, then the system is too alkaline, ACV can help to establish a correct balance.
Use a few drops in your dog's ears after cleaning to avoid ear infections. ACV can be used in the prevention of muscle weakness, arthritis, calluses on elbows and hocks and joints, pimples, and sore joints. It has also been shown to be useful in the prevention of bladder and kidney stones, bladder and kidney infections.
A dog with a correct pH balance is less likely to be bothered by fleas, black flies, ticks, and other external parasites. Less chance of ringworm, staph infections, streptococcus, mange. If you are already experiencing these problems, dilute ACV with equal amounts of warm water and sponge onto your dog's coat.
You can also mix it up and add to a spray bottle and spray the coat. The ACV balances the pH of the skin and makes it less desirable to bacteria, bugs and infection. Not only that, but their coat is very soft and shiny. Bee and wasp stings, as well as itchy mosquito bites can be soothed by applying undiluted apple cider vinegar to the affected area.
INTERNAL BENEFITS:
EXTERNAL BENEFITS:
Rich in enzymes & potassium
Naturally support a healthy immune system
Helps control weight
Promotes digestion & ph Balance
Helps remove body sludge toxins
Helps maintain healthy skin
Helps promote youthful, healthy body
Soothes irritated skin
Relieves muscle pain from exercise
INTERNAL BENEFITS:
ACV is rich in enzymes and potassium. ACV is a natural antibiotic germ fighter, Fights E Coli and other bacterias. Apple Cider Vinegar is a good remedy for food poisoning and helpful in digestive upsets. ACV helps control and normalize weight, helps to improve digestion. ACV helps relieve arthritis stiffness. ACV removes body sludge and toxins.
EXTERNAL BENEFITS:
ACV helps to maintain healthy skin, promote youthful, healthy bodies. Soothes pain of sunburn, the itch from bug bites, and the sting from plants. ACV helps prevent dandruff, itching scalp, baldness, dry skin. ACV soothes tight aching joints, sore muscles.
Apple Cider Vinegar is proving very beneficial to people or animals with arthritis because it breaks down calcium deposits in the joints while remineralizing the bones. It has shown to be equally beneficial to dogs with hip dysplasia.
ACV is also effective for urinary tract infections and it lowers high blood pressure. In animals, it is helpful in skin and coat problems. It is helpful in replacing potassium depletion. Use one teaspoonful in the dog or cat’s drinking water daily as a healthy tonic. Two teaspoonfuls in a pint of water, for yourself. Drink a daily tonic of apple cider vinegar to help you keep the right pH balance in the urinary tract since the proper acidity creates an inhospitable environment for bacteria and yeasts that cause these infections.
Cranberry juice is also a well known home remedy for urinary tract infections. It prevents bacteria from attaching to the walls of the urinary tract.
Apples contain Vitamin C and flavonoids. Vitamin C helps with wound healing and in reducing the severity of colds and flu symptoms.
A new University of California-Davis Medical Center study shows that daily consumption of 12 ounces of apple cider or apple juice can reduce the risk of heart disease. And the benefits don’t stop there. A recent Cornell University study found that the antioxidants in apples also inhibit the growth of certain types of cancer cells.
ACV has been found to protect arteries from harmful buildup of plaque. Many heart attacks are caused by high fats and cholesterol in your blood. The fiber in ACV helps to absorb fats and cholesterol by expelling them from the body as waste materials. ACV is used to promote the health of veins and capillaries, it is also useful in assisting in the health of the heart. The potassium found in apple cider vinegar is also beneficial to the heart.
The dietary fiber in ACV is also helpful in controlling glucose levels in the blood.
Minerals like manganese, calcium, magnesium, silicon and iron develop bone mass and make them stronger. . Rich source of amino acids, vitamins and minerals.
Boosting the immune system and acting as a natural antiseptic and anti-biotic. Apple cider has acetic acid, plus ion-futynic lactic and propionic acids. It is the richest source of amino acids known.
Apple cider cannot cure cancer, buy it is a valuable to have around to help fight free radicals in the body. Beta-carotene, found in apple cider vinegar, is a powerful antioxidant, which helps to neutralize the free radicals formed in the body through oxidation. To prevent these free radicals, and to keep them in check, we need antioxidants to rid our body of these potentially dangerous compounds. Left alone free radicals have the run of our bodies, they damaging cells, which leads to degeneration. The pectin in apple cider vinegar adds fiber to the diet, a high fiber diet to help prevent cancer, especially colon cancer. Fiber binds with certain cancer causing compounds in the colon, and speeds up their elimination from the system.
Vitamins
Vitamin C
Vitamin E
Vitamin A
Vitamin B1
Vitamin B2
Vitamin B6
Provitamin beta-carotene
Vitamin P
Minerals and trace elements
Potassium
Calcium
Magnesium
Phosphorous
Chlorine
Sodium
Sulfur (the mineral - not the sulfa which some people are allergic to)
copper
iron
silicon
fluorine
