The Healing Properties of Water

The benefits of water cannot be over-emphasized for hydrating the human body, since we consists of 80% water. It is a  survival necessity in our daily life, because  the more we move in purposeful activity; the more energy we generate and the more water evaporates from our body, so we constantly need to replenish natural water that feeds our body’s physiological needs.

In order to understand the properties of water and how it can heal our body, we need to understand the basic chemical structure of water. I am no chemist, but I will simplify the chemistry as best as I am able. Water comprises of molecules. In each molecule there is a chemical structure of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom, known as the symbol H²0. When the hydrogen atom stands alone, it contains one positive proton at its core and one negative electron revolving around it; whereas an oxygen atom contains 8 protons in the center, with eight negative electrons circling around it.

This one single hydrogen electron and 8 oxygen electrons becomes the key to ingredient to the chemistry of life; because it is where hydrogen and oxygen atoms combine to form  water, or split to become ions that attract other molecules, to create other forms of matter.

This is also why water is so solvent, because the single hydrogen atom converts into ions by losing its single electron, forming a single H+ ion; whereas the oxygen atom maintains its four paired electrons and attracts the hydrogen atom, because it remains the same with 4 pairs of electrons, making it a negative atom.

In an ideal environment, drinking water has a Ph of 7.5 that is neutral, meaning it is chemically balanced. Our internal body functions in the neutral zone and demands natural water for replacing the water lost. It means we need to drink plenty of fresh water, for maintaining a healthy body. Yet how many people actually drink plain tap water in the western culture? We are led to believe that bottled water is safer and drinking carbonated drinks can be healthy with all the wonderful additives.                      

This is not the case, as all manufactured fluids are acidic and that includes bottled water! You can test this yourself by using litmus paper and test all the drinks that you consume. This is what is creating the problems that we have today with an uptake of chronic conditions. There is too much consumption acid, which our body is unable to cope with. Think of what you drink each day – coffee, tea, fruit juice, canned soda drink like coke, lemonade, sprite, , alcohol, bottled water – yes bottled water is acidic. You are better taking with you filtered tap water, than buy bottled water and it is free!

f you are having chronic pains and discomforts in your daily performance, then you should think about drinking alkaline water. The alkaline water will help to heal the problems in your body. The reason  is that alkaline water it has strong negative ions in its chemical structure, which when drunk, is attracted to the loose positive hydrogen ions in your body (created from too much acidic in your system that your body is unable to neutralize).  

I can support this statement, because I have been drinking alkaline water for 2 years and it has cured the excruciating pain in my hand joints, especially my thumbs, from osteoarthritis in all my hand joints. It had reduced my ability to perform normal daily living functional tasks with any degree of comfort.

In three years, my function was so reduced, that I was on the waiting list for surgery to remove the carpal bones from both thumbs, for reducing the pain by 60%, after extensive rehabilitation after surgery.

Instead of this precedure, I started drinking alkaline water. Within a week, I was 70% pain- free and after 2 weeks, I was 95% pain-free, with only minimal discomfort in both thumb joints.  I could be 100% free of pain, if I chose not to consume any acidic drinks in my life again, but the quality of my life would go down. Maybe I might do without coffee in the future and also alcohol, but at moment I can modify I will allow in my body for my own comfort.

However, my quality of life deserves one cup of coffee in the morning and a glass of wine with dinner or pint of beer at the pub in the evening. The sacrifices I have made for this are no carbonated drinks at all. No coffee or tea out with other people. I bring my own water, tea of coffee made with my own water.

For that I am willing to accept a small degree of discomfort that will allow me to have an acceptable quality of life. However, the range of movement in both hands is normal and I can do everything in my life without extreme pain and with comfort. It is a small price to pay for comfort.