Water – Not Just For Bathing

I had reread Dr. Batmanghelidj’s (aka. Dr. Batman) book, Your Body’s Many Cries for Water, in preparation for the Wellness Corner radio program this past week. I thought I would share some information here as well since many who consider themselves wellness oriented and health-conscious didn’t realize all of the health benefits to be gained from drinking water. Some didn’t realize that when we talk about taking in water it means just that; plain, unadalterated water.

As many who routinely visit the chiropractor may know, water is a must for holding an adjustment as well has reducing the inflammation caused from subluxation. The reason for this is because the body carries the signals by utilizing water along the neural pathways.

When the body is under stress because of lack of sufficient water, ie – dehydration, the nerves do not have part of the necessary tools to carry messages from the origination point to the destination point. Also, the connective tissues need the water to be able to maintain, repair, and rebuild. If dehydration occurs, subluxations can occur as well.

To further aggravate the matter, inflammation causing pain follows which is both good and bad – good that your body is alerting you to the need for correction and bad in that your body has had to get to this point to draw your attention to the lack of water intake.

I’m not suggesting that subluxations only occur because of dehydration. But what I am saying based on the information that I’ve read is that many of the body’s signals are misinterpretted and result in what is commonly called disease.

This is a bold statement. Dr. Batman has personal experience to back this up.

He was a political prisoner for a time and had only water to give to those in the prison to utilize in treatment. He had multiple occasions where he had to treat other prisoners suffering from ulcers. After checking to make sure that perforation of the stomach had not occured, he had his patients drink glasses of water. In all of those cases, his patients made dramatic improvement.

Because the body uses water to not only aid in the actual digestion process but also to continually renew the stomach lining, a person in a dehydrated state would be putting themselves at risk of a possible ulcer because of a lack of water.

I, too, have personal experience with this paradigm shift in disease treatment. After reading this book for the first time, I found that those rare occasions when I did have an allergy flair slightly even after removing toxins from the home, if I drank an 8 ounce glass of water followed by a pinch of sea salt on the tongue would cause the congestion and drainage to dry up – literally. That is just one example.

Ok, so it’s obvious I find the technical information from this book fascinating. I tie this in with God’s design – which I also find totally fascinating…

Our body is 2/3 water, the earth is covered with 2/3 (or more) water, God used water to give life to his people – the Exodus through the dry water bed with the walls of water coming down to save the people from the Egypian pursuers as well as baptism first begun by John and carried through to our time, and cleansing – the flood cleansing the earth from the detestable sin of man.

We have been designed to need water for cleansing, purifying, and sustaining life. I will be sharing more from this book later, but for now, go fetch a tall glass of water and enjoy!