Suppression
Water
Category: Food
Type
Voluntary
Introduction and description
It seems almost trite to wheel out that old chestnut 'water is the key to life', but it is. We are made largely of water, all our cells operate using water, our nervous system, all our organs, our lymph system and hence immune system, our brain [which is bathed in liquid], our reproductive system [babies swim in fluid until they are born]. Our entire circulatory system is water based; even thought it delivers oxygen and nutrients to cells, blood is water based.
Expelling waste and toxic substances
In order to expel waste and toxins, parasites and viruses, bacteria and fungi, the body uses water. Anything harmful to the body is washed out. It is expelled from the nose using nasal mucous, from our urinary system via the liver and kidneys using 'wee' [or 'wee wee' if you expel a lot - sorry my joke], via the intestines using 'poo' [which to be 'healthy' is usually quite soggy and soft with water], via the eyes with tears, via our skin using sweat. We sweat out quite a lot of toxins and bacteria, which is why sweat sometimes smells. It is actually a good sign - we have released harmful things. To use anti-perspirants is madness.
We even release harmful substances via our ears in the form of ear wax, which although waxy still contains water. If it doesn't have enough water content, it becomes hard and blocks up the ear.
Thus one of the most helpful things you can do to help the body is to ensure you are never short of water, as without it, it cannot do the flushing job effectively.
The supply
Water is one of the those substances we tend to take for granted. We have even become a little blase about water supplies, assuming that somehow, because we have all the trappings of modernity surrounding us that our drinking water is 'safe'. Now that the West, and large parts of the East, have access to filtered, clean water and in ready suppy through a tap, [or in a bottle] we have forgotten how bad things can be without a ready clean supply.
- Bacteria - Numerous bacterial infections can result from an impure water supply, typhoid, meningitis and encephalitis for example.
- Parasites - Numerous parasitic infections can be caught via an impure water supply
- Toxins - And a polluted water supply full of toxins like pesticides or heavy metals can also result in severe illness. In the West this is our biggest area of concern - the pollution of our sources of supply. Reservoirs can become polluted from run-off, bad faming practise can result in underground aquifers becoming polluted and industry ... well industry has a lot to answer for.
- Viral infection - viruses like the norovirus frequently turn up in drinking water supplies
Overall, our drinking water supplies are anything but safe. I have provided a small sample of the papers on PubMed for you to have a look at. There are literally thousands of papers describing tests done on drinking water, which people in the West and East have assumed to be safe, but are anything but. Our drinking water is still riddled with bacteria, parasites, toxins, and even viruses. We are a very very long way from having clean safe water in the East or West and it is possible that the source of many of the illnesses on this site are caused by a contaminated supply of drinking water.
The West's keenness for vaccination programmes in so called developing countries, would be far better replaced by a keenness to give those people access to clean, pure accessible water. And we might do well to put our own house in order as well.
Lack of water
The medical term from suffering from a lack of water is dehydration and it can cause headaches, blurred vision, hallucinations, and all sorts of nervous problems [because our cells like batteries need water to operate and some of those cells are nerve cells]. Without enough water we can suffer from constipation, insomnia, tiredness, hypotension, hypertension [both are possible], nausea, coma and death.
If we get diarrhoea, we can end up being dehydrated. If we suffer fom a fever or hyperthermia we can get dehydrated.
Many pharmaceuticals can cause dehydration. This LIST will show you just how many. Two apparently ordinary 'medicines' which can cause dehydration are paracetemol and aspirin. But you will be able to see from the list that there are literally thousands that can do this.
We tend to forget that there are artificially produced foods on the market that can also cause dehydration. The cereals made with bran, for example, can cause dehydration because the bran bulks up by absorbing water. Most 'natural' foods containing fibre, also contain a high level of water, and are 'balanced', but many manufactured foods are not and need a higher intake of water to counteract their effects.
Too much water
Water intoxication, also known as water poisoning or dilutional hyponatremia, is a potentially fatal disturbance in brain functions that results when the normal balance of electrolytes in the body is pushed outside safe limits by overhydration i.e. over-consumption of water on its own or in other drinks. Thus it is not too much water that causes the problem, but the loss of essential minerals.
Having said this, accidentally consuming too much water is exceptionally rare. Water is considered the least toxic chemical compound, as such if you overdose, all that happens is that you have to wee a lot, which is inconvenient, but not life threatening.
Method
The following advice came from a Nutritionist and is easy and simple to follow.
A half an hour to 45 minutes before each meal - breakfast, lunch and dinner - drink at least half a pint of water. If your fluid intake has been low up to that point increase the quantity.
Just water, nothing added to it. Not flavoured water or fizzy water. Just water.
Tap water is fine, as long as you know the supply is safe.
Bottled water is fine as long as it has not been tampered with to include minerals or other things the manufacturer thinks you need and you don't. All you need is water, so what you should be looking for is water and not anything else.
Also keep a glass of pure water near you whilst you work or watch TV or read. If you feel tempted to have a coffee or a fizzy drink, have the water instead. Little sips on a regular basis.
Nothing wrong with tea and nothing wrong with coffee, but these are both essentially foods and when your body encounters a food, it processes it as a food, which means the flushing action becomes less effective. Think of your body like a sewer. The best way of flushing out the grunge in a sewer is water in quantity, not pea soup!
Finally have a glass of water by your bed. If you wake up in the night, drink the water - don't force it down, enough to help the flushing process, which works very effectively at night.
Water, incidentally, gives you the best dreams of all.
How it works
Water is healing, it works therefore by keeping our bodies well.
Unless of course it is contaminated, in which case it 'works', in the sense of giving the person hallucinations, near death and death experiences, by whatever disease or illness it produces.
References and further reading
Videos
TED - How to make filty water drinkable - Too much of the world lacks access to clean drinking water. Engineer Michael Pritchard did something about it — inventing the portable Lifesaver filter, which can make the most revolting water drinkable in seconds. An amazing demo from TEDGlobal 2009.
Related observations
Healing observations
- Aluminium poisoning and ginger 017801
- Aluminum in the diet and Alzheimer's disease: from current epidemiology to possible disease-modifying treatment 017802
- Antibacterial activity of natural spices on multiple drug resistant Escherichia coli isolated from drinking water, Bangladesh 021227
- Arsenic and drinking water, chelation therapy 017785
- Bach, Dr Edward - The benefits of sunshine 011145
- Bach, Dr Edward - The healing power of food 011144
- Bioaugmentation process of secondary effluents for reduction of pathogens, heavy metals and antibiotics 023160
- Cicero Newell - Indian Stories – Indians are nearer being the children of God 023817
- Dr Duke's list of chemicals and activity for the Shallot 017969
- Effectively simultaneous naked-eye detection of Cu(II), Pb(II), Al(III) and Fe(III) using cyanidin extracted from red cabbage as chelating agent 017795
- Grapefruit biomass as a chelating agent in contaminated water 016841
- Hallucinations from hyperglycemia: magnetic resonance imaging 012993
- Metagenomic testing as a means of identifying the pathogens causing IBS and diarrhoea 026758
- Phytoremediation of urban wastewater by model wetlands with ornamental hydrophytes 027987
- Primitive Physic: or An Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases - John Wesley 08 024646
- Solar water disinfection (SODIS): a review from bench-top to roof-top 021225
- Still, Andrew Taylor - The reason for disease 011211
- Taking the waters 006677
- The effect of substrates on the removal of low-level vanadium, chromium and cadmium from polluted river water by ecological floating beds 027988
- The WASH programme 008352
- To Heaven and Back Methadone & Ibogaine by Jasen 017440
- Using limes and synthetic psoralens to enhance solar disinfection of water (SODIS): a laboratory evaluation with norovirus, Escherichia coli, and MS2 021224
- Water and ulcers 008351
Hallucination
- Acute fluoride poisoning from a public water system 013016
- Arsenic, water and burning treated wood 006906
- Contamination of Haiti's drinking water 008323
- Depression, magnesium and calcium 005695
- Fluoride induced hyperthyroidism 013015
- Hallucinations from hyperglycemia: magnetic resonance imaging 012993
- Srebrenica hallucinations 006969
Wisdom, Inspiration, Divine love & Bliss
- Aluminum-induced entropy in biological systems: implications for neurological disease 015269
- Liu Bolin - Disappearing into heaven 015246
- Taoism - The body as a castle and city 016663
- TED - Tyrone Hayes & Penelope Jagessar Chaffer: The toxic baby 016740
- To Heaven and Back Methadone & Ibogaine by Jasen 017440
Out of time
In time
- To Heaven and Back Methadone & Ibogaine by Jasen 017440
- Vignoli, Tito - On hypnagogia and lucid dreaming 015164
Dying
Other observations
- Aluminum bioavailability from basic sodium aluminum phosphate, an approved food additive emulsifying agent, incorporated in cheese 029311
- Contamination of American drinking water and cancer 008346
- Contamination of American drinking water and pancreatic cancer 008348
- Contamination of American drinking water in hospitals 008345
- Contamination of American drinking water with arsenic 008327
- Contamination of American drinking water with bacteria 008347
- Contamination of Bangladesh's drinking water [massive contamination] 008325
- Contamination of Chad's drinking water 008342
- Contamination of Chile's drinking water with arsenic and cancer levels 008350
- Contamination of Chinese drinking water 1 008330
- Contamination of Chinese drinking water 2 008329
- Contamination of Croation drinking water [Manchester and Sheffield] by a paper mill 008337
- Contamination of Danish drinking water by pesticides 008338
- Contamination of Dutch drinking water [in Amsterdam] 008335
- Contamination of English drinking water 008336
- Contamination of Finland's drinking water 008331
- Contamination of French drinking water 008341
- Contamination of Greek drinking water and cancer 008339
- Contamination of Indian drinking water by disinfectants 008324
- Contamination of Irish drinking water 008332
- Contamination of Korea's drinking water 008343
- Contamination of Nigerian drinking water 008328
- Contamination of Spanish drinking water 008340
- Contamination of Swedish drinking water 008333
- Contamination of Swiss drinking water with parasites 008334
- Contamination of Thailand's, Hungarian and Bangladesh's drinking water with arsenic 008349
- Contamination of Turkish drinking water 008326
- Contamination of Vietnam's drinking water by arsenic 008344
- Outbreak of acute fluoride poisoning caused by a fluoride overfeed, Mississippi 013017