Apple Cider Vinegar

The perfect daily tonic for your horse

• Natural antibiotic and anti-inflammatory
• Regulates blood pressure
• Fights infection, boosts the immune system
• Relieves arthritis, gout and joint pain
• Promotes digestion
• Improves metabolism
• Fights osteoporosis
• Maintains healthy skin
• Relieves sore throats, laryngitis
• Helps eliminate intestinal parasites
• Used externally, soothes sunburn, shingles and bites, and is an
  excellent fly repellent
• Also recommended for poultry – and humans!

Suggested daily usage:-
Approximately 25ml to 50ml per 100kg bodyweight. Use the lower rate
routinely, the higher when required. Assuming the average 16hh horse weighs approximately 500kg, the daily dose would be 125ml to 250ml, best divided between 2 feeds about 12 hours apart. Or it can be added to the drinking water (not in metal containers). Introduce it into the diet gradually over 3 or 4 days. A 5L can will last 20 to 40 days at these rates.

Aspall Cider Vinegar 5 Litres - £8.90 Food Quality - you can use it yourself!

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The following is taken from an article written by Alicia McWatters, Ph.D., C.N.C.

The Wonders of Apple Cider Vinegar

Ask your grandmothers and they will probably tell you how apple cider vinegar eases arthritis and "cures all that ails you". Cider vinegar's health enhancing properties also makes it the perfect daily tonic for your horse.

Scientists have found that apple cider vinegar contains cholesterol-reducing pectin and the perfect balance of 19 minerals, including potassium, phosphorus, chlorine, sodium, magnesium, calcium, sulfur, iron, fluorine and silicon. In fact, apple cider vinegar contains 93 different components that can help your body.

Cider vinegar has many healing abilities and is known to improve certain symptoms of illness and disease. It works not by curing any specific illness, but by boosting the health of the individual with its nutritional and healthful qualities.

It may be an effective remedy for kidney disease and helpful in alleviating joint pain. The malic acid content of apples dissolves calcium deposits.

Cider Vinegar acts to balance the acid-alkaline pH levels in the body and helps to oxygenate the blood. It has been helpful as an aid for digestion, helping to break down minerals, protein and fats. It also inhibits the growth of unfriendly bacteria in the
digestive tract.

Cider vinegar has detoxifying properties, strengthens the immune system and may improve viral, bacterial and fungal infections. It is used as an antibacterial and anti-inflammatory medicine and has a natural antibiotic effect.

Its benefits also include improving respiratory infections and may reduce symptoms, such as watery eyes and nasal discharge. In addition, Cider vinegar can be helpful in eliminating both internal and external parasite problems.

Apple cider vinegar has been used successfully for dry, itchy or infected skin problems. If applied topically to wounds and burns it will decrease the pain and promote healing. It also controls minor bleeding from cuts and abrasions.

Apple pectin, a water-soluble dietary fiber found in apples and cider vinegar, binds to toxins in the body and assists in their removal while it may also help relieve diarrhea and constipation. And lastly, it may lower cholesterol levels and improve heart health.