Fire Cider Benefits & Easy Fire Cider Recipe (for Colds and Flu)
A popular home herbal remedy, fire cider (a vinager-based herbal remedy) was created by the wonderful herbalist Rosemary Gladstar. Many herbalists love this effective herbal remedy and in today’s post I’ll be talking about fire cider benefits and will show you an easy to make fire cider recipe.
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Fire Cider is a really potent herbal remedy blend that can treat many symptoms of the cold or flu. It is a spicy beverage with stimulating qualities that can decongest the lungs, soothe sore throats and also serve as a preventive measure to avoid upper respiratory infections.
Fire Cider is most definitely a must-have in your winter-season pantry for the cold and flu.
Fire Cider Benefits
This spicy, invigorating type of vinegar has great benefits for the winter season as it targets cold and flu.
- Can prevent colds
- Can prevent flu
- Decongests the lungs / tackles congested coughs
- Soothes sore throats
- Preventive measure to avoid upper respiratory infections
When to Take Fire Cider
- At the onset of a cold or flu
- To relieve a sore throat
- To decongest lungs
- To takle congested coughs
How to Take Fire Cider
You can take it by the spoonful or mix it with other liquid or semiliquid drinks (water, smoothies, etc). How about using it as a salad dressing? Fire Cider is very spicy so start with small amounts to get your stomach used to it.
Use 1 tablespoon daily as a tonic.
Up to 3 tablespoons daily when you have an infection.
Inspirational Fire Cider Recipe
Fire Cider allows for many ingredients as mentioned before so the before is an ‘inspirational’ recipe. Check the ingredients above in case you want to change the recipe below. Maybe you have something growing in your garden you’d like to add? Maybe there are berries around you that could be added to your own fire cider recipe?
Have a look at your farmer’s market and see what interesting ingredients you could add to your own fire cider recipe.
INGREDIENTS
- 1 red onion (large)
- 3 garlic cloves (chopped)
- 1/2 cup fresh ginger rhizome (grated)
- 1/4 cup fresh horseradish root (grated)
- 1/2 cup fresh turmeric rhizome (grated)
- 1/2cup fresh thyme aerial parts (chopped)
- 1/2 cup fresh oregano aerial parts (chopped)
- Some jalapeño peppers or cayenne peppers (careful how many you add!)
- 2 tsp fresh black pepper (ground)
- 2 and 1/2 cups apple cider vinegar
- 1/4 Honey or to taste
Place all the ingredients except the honey in a mason jar/flip top glass jar like this one.
Pour in the vinegar until it is 1/4 inch from the top of the jar (be sure to cover the herbs, at least by a few inches).
Store in a dark cupboard and let it sit for 2 to 4 weeks (shake the jar daily).
At around 3 weeks the Fire Cider will have a nice kick to it, but you can let it sit for a few more weeks before straining it.
When ready, strain or blend. If deciding to blend, you can use a mixer like this one and let it sit for an extra week without shaking it.
Place in the fridge and use within 6 months to 1 year and make sure to label it adding a date.
Core Herbs Used in Fire Cider
Ingredients may vary but there are core herbs that are part of the fire cider formula. These are:
- Onions
- Ginger
- Hot peppers or cayenne pepper
- Garlic
- Horseradish
Other fantastic additions to your Fire Cider recipe would include berries, cinnamon sticks, echinacea (aerial parts, root or seeds), astragalus root, dried elder, jalapeños and even lavender flower buds.
Fire Cider is a Great Herbal Remedy
If you’d like to have fun making Fire Cider recipes I recommend Rosemary Gladstar’s Fire Cider!: 101 Zesty Recipes for Health-Boosting Remedies Made with Apple Cider Vinegar!
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Patri xx
