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 Water Therapy 

"I Will Throw Up"
Initially you will feel slight discomfort in gulping 1.5 liters. Some may feel that they will throw up. However, the bottle method is the best. (see below for flavoring water to avoid nauseating feelings).

"If you think that you can do a thing, 
or think you can't do a thing, 
you are right". Henry Ford
 

Swimming in the Ocean
Everything in life is a practice. When we start swimming in a swimming pool, we fear  drowning, even death! But daily practice will help us to keep our balance and master the art. Once we learn the art of swimming in a pool, then we can swim in a mighty ocean too. It is the same with water therapy. Do not let your notions and fear keep you from attempting this wonderful way of maintaining health.

Flavored water

"Can I use flavored water?"

The basic purpose is to cleanse the body hence pure water with no other additives is the best. However, if one does not like the taste of raw water, you can flavor it mildly.

How to flavor water?
Boil 1.5 liters of water with the following for 5 to ten minutes and allow to cool overnight. Next morning drink the flavored water. The following is the amount you need for 1.5 liters of water or 1.6 quarts of water.

Flavors to use

Boil water with 3 or 4 cumin seeds;
Boil water with ginger (half the size of peanut); 
One basil leaf;
One mint leaf;
Three or four fennel seeds;
Three or four fenugreek seeds;
A tiny bit of camphor (half the size of a mustard seed);
A pinch of turmeric powder; 
One or two coriander seeds;
One seed of cardamom (not one pod); 
A piece of orange peel (tiny bit is enough);
Keep alternating with different flavors and enjoy water therapy. You can choose seven flavors and have one for each day. Or you can change once every ten days.

In fact, adding flavors might bring some additional benefits. These flavorings have medicinal values apart from imparting taste to water. Ginger, cumin and mint rectify indigestion problems. Ginger cures nausea and vomiting. For heart ailments one could use basil or cumin seeds too. Basil is rich in anti-oxidant chemicals. Most of these flavors have many potent phyto-chemicals and so protect the body from many diseases. These natural chemicals have been proved anti-cancerous and anti-oxidant in many scientific studies. However the additions to the water should be in   very minimal amounts. Do not do water therapy like drinking a herbal tea.

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  "Healing" Water

While doing water therapy, instead of drinking water mechanically, if you drink water consciously for healing, there will be a greater impact.  Water is not an inert substance as is generally thought, it can absorb vibrations of sound, light, heat and other physical elements. Most surprising is that it can reflect human feelings because of its very subtle nature.         Water's healing powers have been known for many centuries. Drinking water from certain cold or hot springs is found to have healing powers. Rituals in  many religions use water as an important part of the ceremony. Water is distributed as an offering in many religious and spiritual traditions. Does water really have power? Recent study by a Japanese scientist  Dr. Masaru Emoto shows that water can reflect human feelings. This experiment can be reproduced by any one who can scrape out ice crystals from an ice cube and watch the crystal under a microscope before the crystal melts to water. He accidentally once watched snow crystals under his phase contrast microscope. He was fascinated by the beauty of water crystals. Purity of water influences the crystalline shape of water crystals.           In later experiments with water crystals, Dr. Masaru Emoto collected water from different sources and found that the beauty of the water crystals is based on the purity of water. See the pictures below which show how water reacts to impurities. The picture on the left is a beautiful water crystal from an unpolluted mountain source. Water from a polluted river gives the distorted crystal structure shown on the right   Crystal formed from Water with no impurities        Water with impurities
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Influence of sound on water Dr. Masaru Emoto also found that the crystals are influenced by sound. He placed glass vials filled with water between speakers and played different music like Mozart, Beethoven, Tibetan sutras, Japanese Folk Songs, Metal music etc., and observed the crystal structure. The two pictures below show the effect of soothing Mozart's music in contrast to metal music. Mozart Music     Rock Music
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  Water Therapy 

     "Usha Kaala Chikitsa" is the Sanskrit coinage for water therapy. According to this ancient system, 1.5 liters of water should be drunk without even brushing the teeth. It is very essential to note that no drinks (like tea, coffee, and milk) or any form of solid food should be taken within half an hour to one hour before and after drinking 1.5 liters of water. Using any form of alcoholic drink the previous night is strictly prohibited.

When should I brush my teeth while doing water therapy ?

     The previous night before going to bed, if you clean your teeth and gums (gums with hand) and next morning if your mouth is not smelling bad then you may rinse your mouth with water and gently brush with your hands and do water therapy almost immediately. 

   If your mouth has a foul smell and if you are not comfortable with the above approach, brush your teeth and then do water therapy after 5 minutes. 

Should it be drunk all at once? Why not split the water and drink throughout the day?
    To clean the body one has to take a shower. One cannot keep pouring little water throughout the day to clean the body. Similarly one cannot argue that water can do its cleaning action by drinking several cups of water throughout the day. To clean you have to shower the internal body with 1.5 liters of water in the morning. Drinking water throughout the day is for thirst. Water therapy is not for thirst but for flushing all the toxins out of body and to regain good health.

Should I measure and drink water?

    The stomach is a muscular sac that can hold about 1.5 liters (1.6 quarts) of fluid. The stomach can expand to hold up to 4 L (4.2 qts.) of food, more than 50 times its empty volume.

Dr Brian King of the UCL Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology says: “The mechanisms we have identified are important to the normal workings of the stomach - a hollow organ which actively relaxes to help accommodate the size of your meal. The human stomach has a ‘resting’ internal volume of 75 millilitres but, by relaxing its muscular wall, can expand to an internal volume of two litres or more - a 25-fold increase in the volume it can accept. This expansion is controlled by nerves inside the stomach wall and these nerves release molecules that stimulate the P2Y1 and P2Y11 receptor proteins embedded in muscle cells in the gut wall.

References:

1. Bevan, Dr. James. Handbook of Anatomy and Physiology. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978: 45. 

2. Johnson, George B. Holt Biology: Visualizing Life. Orlando: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1994: 769. ).

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