Lets learn how to make Fire Cider!
Fire Cider- The healthy DIY Immune tonic that is so easy you should make it tomorrow!
It’s fall time, which is also when cold and flu season comes back around. It’s a great time to get your household Fire Cider going! This blog post has been something that I've wanted to share for so long now and on this Samhain, Halloween day, now is the time. Have you ever made or had Fire Cider?
Fire cider is a traditional herbal remedy that goes back many centuries and herbalists have been making it for decades. Rosemary Gladstar first coined the name fire cider as it is meant to "light your fires" in her recipe for this oxymel in the 1970s. There is no one recipe for fire cider, it's only limited to your imagination. The main idea is to use warming, herbs and spices with immune supportive, and antibacterial and antiviral properties.
As the name suggests, this is a blend of fiery roots and herbs including
onions, garlic, ginger, (and more) that is infused in apple cider vinegar.
After several weeks it is strained and bottled with honey to taste. You
then take this daily as an immune tonic or when you feel symptoms coming
on.
Free Fire Cider
A few years back a herbal company, that I won’t name, trademarked the term fire cider and started to sue small herbal businesses who were making and selling fire cider in their own communities.
The “Fire Cider 3”, Kathi Langelier of Herbal Revolution, Mary Blue of Farmacy Herbs and Nicole Telkes of Wildflower School of Botanical Medicine, along with Rosemary Gladstar fought back in court for several years and ended up winning the case! Fire Cider is indeed a generic term and everyone is free to use call this remedy by its rightful name: fire cider, no matter how you make it. And the basic recipe is free to all! You can read more about the Free Fire Cider story here.
Hardly a recipe, more of a method
The basic recipe is as follows. It's hardly a recipe though, more of a method. Just chop/shred everything- onion, horseradish, garlic, ginger, cayenne then let it macerate in apple cider vinegar for a few weeks, strain and add honey. You can use these just ingredients, a combination of whatever you have/can get easily, or any substitutions or additions you want. You can include medicinal herbs like adaptogens or bitters, culinary herbs thyme or rosemary, citrus, turmeric, jalapeno, pomegranate. --The possibillibilites are literally endless!!
To Enjoy
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