Mother of Vinegar and Kombucha are Different. may look very similar. Both are extremely healthy. Mother of vinegar and kombucha have the same bacteria different yeasts. Mother of vinegar uses predominately an anaerobic (without oxygen) yeasts and kombucha yeasts are aerobic (with oxygen) yeasts, One yeasts grows by fission one by budding. Mother of vinegar takes months, kombucha 1-2 weeks. Mother of vinegar usually over 4% acetic acid with a pH 2.5, Kombucha acetic acid 2% and a pH 3.0 less leaching better tasting. Different acids and nutrients are formed. Kombucha while being acid pH 3.0 is an alkaline-forming food and will (according to Dr Barefoot) balance one's pH. You can test the results yourself using pH strips. Usually within 30-60 days. According to German researcher (Guenther Frank) alcohol over 20% [or Colloidal Silver) will kill the yeasts and bacteria yet kombucha still produces some amazing health benefits therefore the health benefits are often attributed to the acids that are produced.
Helps a lot of people especially with fatigue and mobility. Ed Kasper LAc. Santa Cruz, CA -----Original Message----- From: Dennis Gulenchin [mailto:dgulenc...@mts.net] Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 9:52 PM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: CS>Probiotic Question Ed, Is there not a way of creating your own mushroom from the mother of apple cider vinegar? I remember reading about this procedure some time ago but not sure which list it was on. Dennis Ed Kasper wrote: two of the best non-commercial sites Dom's Kefir site http://users.sa.chariot.net.au/~dna/kefirpage.html and the Weston A Price Foundation http://www.westonaprice.org/index.html Besides the sour kraut and typical fermented foods there's Caspian Sea Yogurt - which requires no cooking and is smooth and drinkable. Kefir again no cooking just straining which is a powerhouse and even my 3 and 8 year olds will ask for it! There's also Kombucha Tea (recommended by Dr Robert Barefoot/ Calcium Factor) KT is a longer ferment typically 6-8 days and produces a sparkling apple cider-like tea. How to make kombucha Tea at my site http://www.happyherbalist.com/pictures.htm. The best thing is that once you get started its really easily, and cheap to make your own. And there's a lot of help at the newsgroups. You may even ask for gift - as some of the members do gladly give starters away. Ed Kasper LAc. Licensed Acupuncturist & Herbalist Acupuncture is a jab well done From Ruth Strackbein ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: debbiegerar...@comcast.net Reply-To: silver-list@eskimo.com To: silver-list@eskimo.com (Unknown) Subject: CS>Probiotic Question Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 03:48:00 +0000 Could someone be so kind to advise me on a good source of pro-biotic...their seems to be so much bad press on some of them I don't know who to trust...thank in advance debbie
