Apple cider vinegar has been used since early times to prevent and relieve a number of ailments.   In fact, around 400 B.C., Hippocrates used the vinegar along with honey to treat his patients, making it one of the worlds first medicines.

The process to make the vinegar involves extracting the liquid from crushed apples, adding sugar and yeast to stimulate the fermentation process and then a second fermentation process is when the acid-forming bacteria transforms the alcohol into vinegar.  The apple cider vinegar contains an abundance of vitamins and minerals including beta-carotene, pectin (good for reducing cholesterol and regulating blood pressure), potassium (helps to alkalize the body and stimulate cell growth), sodium, calcium, chlorine, phosphorous, magnesium, iron, and fluorine.  It is also an aid to detoxification of the bodily organs.

Fighting Athlete’s Foot

The element in the apple cider vinegar useful to fighting fungal and bacterial infections is malic acid.  It is because of this that apple cider vinegar may be one of the best natural remedies for athlete’s foot (tinea pedis) which is a form of ringworm that occurs on the feet.    It also relieves the itching associated with athlete’s foot and is considerably less expensive than prescription drugs or over the counter topical medications.

Will “The Real Apple Cider Vinegar” Please Stand Up

If you can see through your apple cider vinegar then you are missing all of the health benefits that come from using it.  The effective type is organic and unfiltered and has a brown cloudy web-like foam called “mother”.  The mother carries all the beneficial nutrients responsible for the many healing qualities of this age old remedy.  The apple cider vinegar you find at your neighborhood grocery store is more likely to be a sparkling clear vinegar that has undergone a steaming process to clean the brown tinge (mother) out and make it more appealing to the consumer. The product I promote here on this site is the BEST apple cider vinegar you can buy. If you are going to use this form of treatment for your athlete’s foot I highly recommend you get the best and don’t cut corners. It’s not worth it. Trust me I know. Athlete’s foot sucks and whatever treatment you are going to utilize you need to be serious about it. I would suggest utilizing a combination of treatments. That is why I have armed this site with all the products I can find to combat this incredibly painful and persistent problem.

How To Administer the Treatment for Athlete’s Foot

An effective way to administer the acidic product to treat feet infected with the athlete’s foot problem is to create a mix of 50/50 apple cider vinegar and warm water.  Soak the feet for 20 minutes and be sure to clean with an anti-bacterial soap before and after the soaking treatment.  It is important to thoroughly dry the feet after treatment to keep the fungal problem from spreading in a moist environment.  Depending on the severity of the condition this treatment can be administered  twice daily.

An alternative to soaking, especially for less severe cases,  is to apply the treatment using a washcloth or cotton ball soaked in the apple cider vinegar.  This might prove more effective for children who find it hard to sit for the period of time necessary to get a good soaking treatment.