Seemingly miraculous cure for morning sickness

Ok, I was reading the student midwife thread and I decided that everyone needs to look into this possible help for morning sickness.

In the throes of horrible morning sickness extending into the 7th month of my last pregnancy, my wise midwife suggested an old folk remedy -- adding about 1 tsp of apple cider vinegar to every 8 oz of water, and sipping throughout the day and night. The effects were miraculous!!! Even my midwife was astonished -- no one had ever really followed through with this before in her practice.

SO I had to figure out what was going on.

My first thought was that the vineger "cut" the constant mucus I was swallowing, making my tummy calmer. Then I thought about the rage in holistic medicine about balancing the pH of our bodies. These could both be factors.

But when researching the practice of people adding vinegar to their water I realized that morning sickness may be caused by the fact that in our modern diet we drink too much water and eat sterile food!

Remember in Little House on the Prairie when Laura and Pa were surpised by the ginger water sent by Ma? It contained ginger and vinegar, and was extremely refreshing. Laura says there that drinking plain water when one is very thirsty would make one sick, but with ginger water one can drink all one wants.

OK. People began putting vinegar in their drinking water in the 1800's because it was more convenient than waiting for beverages to ferment. Or because they didn't have any whey on hand, which was also added to drinking water. So the precurser to vinegar water was beverages containing naturally occuring enzymes and yeasts that were the result of fermentation. We're not talking alcohol here. We're talking kombucha, real honest to goodness fermented ginger ale, and much more. Every indiginous culture has drank fermented beverages which are sometimes carbonated and always very soothing to the belly and improve digestion.

In the early 1900's the beverage industry exploded with lab-created carbonic beverages -- SODA POP. We like carbonation!

The problem with today's diet is that it is sterile and full of processed foods "cooked" in a laboratory. And then we wash it all down with a lot of sterilized, often chlorinated water. No wonder so much of the population suffers from digestive issues!

Even if a women eat only whole foods, she is very likely getting little in the way of enzymes and good bacteria/probiotics unless she eats lots of yogurt and supplements with pro-biotics.

Do you know a woman with bad morning sickness? At least suggest vinegar water, at most suggest she begin making fermented beverages and femented veggies, and switch to organic raw milk which is the best natural source of b6 and contains lots of enzymes. Delicious fermented beverages such as Kombucha are now available in the health food stores.

I'm pregnant again and will be treating my morning sickness this way. We make our own kombucha and it is delicious.

So far I've gotten a lot of info from the Weston Price Foundation and a the great (cook)book Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon. I will not site studies here because both the foundation (there is a website) and the book do so with great detail. I hope this info can help a woman who is suffering the way I once suffered.