Water Therapy and Its Benefits

What is Water Therapy?

Water is essential to life. A person may survive in forty days without food but only three days if without water. Water therapy is a natural way of fighting against illnesses by keeping ourselves hydrated. It is also known as hydrotheraphy. 

There is a lot of people who really wonder how it should be done. Others may find it difficult to do and found themselves easily get vomited after drinking a lot of it. In the US, the recommended daily intake (RDI) is 3.7 liters.

These are the simple things to do in order for us to  benefit from the water we drink:

1. Practice drinking a lot of water as you wake up in the morning. As suggested you should consume at least 1.5 liters of water or 5 to 6 glasses. It may be difficult at first but you can start with 4 glasses.


2. Drink 2 to 3 glasses of water 2 hours before meals and every 2 hours after meals. Do not drink more than 1/4 glass of water right after meals. Drinking plenty of it may lead you to a bloated stomach and may cause indigestion. A simple analogy: we could hardly grab a small fish in a large bowl with full of water unless the water is removed first. Thus, our stomach cannot squeeze and digest food easily if it has a lot of water.


3. Drink water before bedtime. This will help your body store those nutrient and minerals we need to stay healthy and strong. But, too much is bad. Drinking a lot water before sleep may cause uneasy and frequent urination and hampers our regular sleep.

 The following are the benefits of water therapy ^[1] 

1. Helps detoxify your body through sweat and urine
2. Helps you get glowing and healthy skin
3. Helps maintain body temperature
4. Help expelling waste products from the body
5. Water therapy helps to control anemia, rheumatism, general paralysis, obesity, arthritis, sinusitis, tachycardia, giddiness, cough, leukemia, bronchitis, meningitis, hyper acidity, dysentery, gastroenteritis, uterus cancer, rectal piodapse, eye-disease, ophthalmic hemorrhage, irregular menstruation, laryngitis, headache and many other diseases
6. Helps control constipation in 1 day, acidity in 2 days, diabetes in 7 days, cancer in 4 weeks, pulmonary TB in 3 months,gastric in 10 days and BP & hypertension in 4 weeks

Reference:
[1] www.indiaparenting.com, "The Benefits of Water Therapy"