{"id":20320,"date":"2025-09-17T14:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T18:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/?p=20320"},"modified":"2025-09-17T14:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T18:06:10","slug":"the-anti-bacterial-vinegar-of-the-four-thieves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/the-anti-bacterial-vinegar-of-the-four-thieves\/","title":{"rendered":"The (Anti-bacterial) Vinegar of the Four Thieves"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post\">\n<p><em>Inspired by Better Basics for the Home, by Annie B. Bond (Three Rivers Press, 1999).\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.care2.com\/\">http:\/\/www.care2.com\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>During the time of the\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/herbs-oils.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black<\/a>\u00a0Plague a family of perfumers robbed the dead. As perfumers they knew well the antiseptic\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/aromatherapy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Essential Oils<\/a>, and they infused them in vinegar and rubbed them on their bodies; by doing so they protected themselves from certain death. The doctors of the time used the same\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/herbs-oils.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Herbs<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/aromatherapy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Essential Oils<\/a>\u00a0to to protect themselves while tending so many who were contagious. They wore big cloaks over their heads that reached down well below their shoulders. Attached to the cloak over the nose and mouth was a 10\u201d long canoe-like shaped beak full of antiseptic\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/herbs-oils.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Herbs<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/aromatherapy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Essential Oils<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can make natural antibacterial products like those that they used at home instead of buying commercial disinfectants that we are now finding out may cause drug resistance. Here is the famous Vinegar of The Four Thieves recipe; it is sometimes called Grave Robber\u2019s Blend. Use it wherever you would normally use disinfectants.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-teaser\"><b><a title=\"Permanent Link: The (Anti-bacterial) Vinegar of the Four Thieves\" href=\"\/alternative-therapies\/herbs-for-health\/herbal-recipes\/the-anti-bacterial-vinegar-of-the-four-thieves\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read the rest of this post here<\/a>\u00a0(356 words, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)<\/b><\/div>\n<p><em>If you enjoyed this post, make sure you\u00a0<a href=\"\/feed\/\">subscribe to my RSS feed<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by Better Basics for the Home, by Annie B. Bond (Three Rivers Press, 1999).\u00a0http:\/\/www.care2.com\/ During the time of the\u00a0Black\u00a0Plague a family of perfumers robbed the dead. As perfumers they knew well the antiseptic\u00a0Essential Oils, and they infused them in vinegar and rubbed them on their bodies; by doing so they protected themselves from certain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-herbs-for-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}