It’s cold and flu season where I am, and I am in the middle of helping teach a class of forty two adults, many of whom have little germ factories, I mean, kids! This is in a highly populated building and I also have shopping and errands to do. I also have narrow airways and wimpy sinuses. Needless to say, I need something to help keep me well!
Enter Fire Cider.
This is a potent concoction consisting of apple cider vinegar that has had all kinds of good things soaking in it – like garlic, onions, ginger, turmeric root, horseradish, chili peppers, citrus, as well as various other herbs and spices depending on need and taste. It steeps for about a month in a glass jar and then you take it by the tablespoonful. You can mix it with raw honey, water, or both. I use water currently and can deal with it just fine. In fact, it’s tasty – I used a smoked chili in my mix so it has a lovely flavor.
If you don’t like heat, you can make this with weaker peppers, or fewer of them. The onion and garlic really don’t make it that much hotter. Some might not be able to handle the horseradish, but if that’s you, you can leave it out. However, as for me…
Anyway. The whole point of Fire Cider is to harness all the good properties of these different roots and herbs in a way that doesn’t have you downing a bottle of supplement pills every day.
So far I have not been taking the full Fire Cider, but rather a concoction I made to use while the main batch is steeping – it contains ginger, black pepper, turmeric root, smoked dried chiles, onion, garlic, lemon from my boss’s tree (including peel since he doesn’t use pesticides), and organic apple cider vinegar. It has many of the good properties of the main batch but probably isn’t as potent.
However, even this lesser batch has had the following clearly noticeable effects:
Improved energy (I use it sometimes instead of coffee)
Better digestion (there’s that ACV)
Improved mood
Better circulation (my legs don’t swell as much now)
And, this is the best part, I HAVEN’T GOTTEN SICK. This is despite working very closely (like within inches) of people with various colds and strains of the flu. In fact, when I start feeling run down, I just take extra and it seems to help. Of course, during the wort days I did augment with extra garlic. Still, I’m very pleased and am looking forward to starting the big batch at the end of the month!
For anyone who wants good info about how to make this, and more detail on the therapeutic properties, check out these two links:
The Organic Prepper Fire Cider making article, with video (includes “instant” version)
Mountain Rose Herbs Fire Cider article and recipe
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