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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 24 Vinegar application in medicine Author: Ya-Li Wang, Hong Hou-sheng, ZHANG Qing-wen, Li Bo, Zhou Haiyan [Keywords:] brewed vinegar; anti-inflammatory anti-bacterial; alleviate cardiovascular disease; anti-tumor; concocted traditional Chinese medicine Vinegar is based on the quality of grain alcohol and other crops as raw materials by acetic acid bacteria fermented seasoning made of an ancient Jiapin, 3000 For many years it has been in people’s daily life play an important role, but for thousands of years food Vinegar has been used as a condiment and widely used. Vinegar contains a variety of organic acids and rich in amino acids, vitamins and minerals. To solid-state fermentation of vinegar, for example [1], vinegar contains 4% ~ 10% of the total acid, pH value of 2.8 ~ 3.9, which mainly composed of acetic acid and other organic acids, in addition to acetic acid but also from lactic acid, malic acid, succinic acid , gluconic acid, citric acid, pyruvic acid, α -ketoglutaric acid, tartaric acid, formic acid, propionic acid, butyric acid and so on. Among them, the volatile acetic acid-based total acid content of about 70% ~ 80%. Volatile acid content rather than less, mainly lactic acid, its non-volatile acid content of about 72% of the total. Vinegar also contains more than 2% of the protein and 8 kinds of essential amino acids the human body and other beneficial ingredients. Domestic and foreign researchers studied the composition and function of brewed vinegar was found apart from being a food flavoring vinegar function, also has to promote body health and ward off disease, a variety of functions, the article mainly from the vinegar anti-inflammatory anti-bacterial, anti-tumor and prevention of cardiovascular vinegar brewing in terms of disease, health care treatment of functional and brewed vinegar in the application prospect in medicine are described. An anti-inflammatory anti-bacterial effect brewing vinegar Since ancient times, v