Are there Side Effects of Water Therapy?
Yes if you feel thirsty there is no harm in drinking more water. All these years your body was thirsty for water. Usually the amount your body receives might be sufficient, but there is no law that you should or not drink drink water after you do water therapy.
Drinking water in the morning is mostly sufficient for the whole day. You do not feel drinking water throughout the day unless the body demands. If you want to drink more water throughout the day , there is no harm, may be not required.
Yes, it is normal to urinate 2 to 3 times within an hour after doing this water therapy. However it is observed that as days go by the system gets used to retain water and use it throughout the day. So bear with the inconvenience you first observe.
For some individuals there would be increase in hunger. That’s good. It probably indicates that body needs nutrients and energy and so it demands more food.
This is probably the detoxification that occurs in the muscles and joints. Usually the symptoms go away if one eat vitamin E rich foods. The best is to use raw wheat germ oil, one table spoon a day, mixed with salads, or rice or with other food. Wheat germ oil , flax seed oil, almonds, avocado, nuts , seeds supplies required vitamin E.
This question is raised by many. In-fact we are only helping the kidney not to strain itself from water shortage. We relieve the water stress of the body through water therapy. We know people who have been doing water therapy throughout their life and were healthy without any health problems.
Since water obtained in many places is polluted, it would best be to use filtered water (free from chemical pollutants). We would say reverse osmosis water. Spring water can also be used if you are confident that it collected from a spring and is not contaminated with any toxic substances. Water can be boiled and sterilized too.
NO. Water while drinking should not be cold nor warm, but at room temperature. In winters if required water can be just made to luke warm conditions. Those who are constipated can also use luke warm water , but do not make it as a practice.
After a nights sleep, so many hormones and metabolites are secreted and broken down. They should be removed in the morning from the body to avoid undesirable effects. Hence water therapy in the morning is very beneficial. Also in the empty stomach, maximum water is absorbed and part of the water used for flushing the colon and rectum if any junk found. When water enters the body in the morning, it helps kidneys to flush out the toxic metabolite form the body. Therefore water cleans the whole digestive system and the interior body. This might help in the better absorption of nutrients by the intestines and thereby improving general health.
Alcohol is an inhibitor of anti-diuretic hormone. This hormone helps kidneys in retaining body water. So if alcohol is consumed in the previous night , the kidneys cannot hold the needed water. More than that by experience we have found doing water therapy after having alcohol previous night, might increase blood pressure. We do not know the exact mechanism by which this happens but the clue is that alcohol might also intervene with kidneys function of maintaining blood pressure. Its amazing that ancient physicians knew these and recommend not to drink alcoholic beverages the night before doing water therapy.
The water that we drink goes to the stomach and then to the intestines where 95% of it is absorbed and rest 5% will be absorbed by the stools in the rectum. There is only four exits for water to get out of body. In minor quantities based on exercise, it goes out as sweat and through the lungs. The next route is through the anus where water is absorbed by the stools. The major route of water excretion is through the urinary system as urine.
Yes. But you will not stop it. You would have experienced healthy being doing water therapy so that you would continue doing it. In fact its good to do as a life long practice because it will help you prevent form all illness like colds, flu. Other diseases like diabetes, hypertension, cancers etc will not develop if you do water therapy with some care in your diet and your mind too.
Al most any one can do water therapy even very sick people too. Kids require less water and so they can drink according to their age. After 15 years of age they can drink 1.2 liters and after 20 years of age, 1.5 liters of water. For younger kids based on their age one tea-cup to few tea-cups of water could be given first thing in the morning. If you have kidney failure or heart problems and doctors have toldto restrict water, then you cannot do it for time till it is resolved.
In fact drinking water during meals is considered not good for digestion. But drinking water an hour before and after meals is good to improve digestion.
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