WHY DISTILLED WATER?
by Dr. John R. Christopher
"All the drugs in the Pharmacopoeia
cannot do as much for the life forces in your body as you can do for yourself
with the simplest and greatest of all nature's remedies-water." This
statement was made by Frederick M. Rositer M.D.
The principle of using water in healing and
renewing the body has been well known from early history. It has been used and
recommended by doctors from the times before Hippocrates and ever since. John Wesley,
the famous evangelist and founder of the Methodist Church, wrote a book early
in the 18th Century, treating among other things, the virtues of water as a
healing remedy. Prusnitz, Father Knupp,
Dr. Winternitz, Dr. Kellogg and many many more intellectuals advised the use of water in
healings. Today we have many advocates of water therapy such as Alen E. Banik, O.D.; Paul C.
Bragg, N.D.; N.W. Walker, Doctor of Science; Yogi Ramacharaka,
etc. etc.
For the internal use of the body-the most
perfectly designed form of animation on this earth--we should use only the
purest liquid we can find. Pure fruit and vegetable juices, as a liquid food,
is a pure liquid and very beneficial. We need now to think of a non-nutritional
liquid for cleansing the circulatory system of the body, and that liquid is
pure water.
I like the way Dr. N.W.
Once the liquid,
whatever it happens to be, reaches the liver it is completely divested and
cleared of everything whatever that was a component part of the liquid, except
only the hydrogen and oxygen which, together, form the water molecule.
Water containing nothing
but hydrogen and oxygen is pure water, and this is the only kind of water which
the blood and lymph can use in their work. Both the blood and the lymph require
pure water to assist them in their functions.
Distilled water is the
purest water you can have. Whatever mineral and chemical elements were present
in the water when it first reaches the liver, are segregated by the anatomizing
processes in the liver and either passed on into the blood stream or are filed
away as reserve material. The liver has no selective ability to determine
whether the item which comes to it is "alive" or inactive, whether it
is constructive or detrimental.
Natural water, by which
we will classify all waters that come from springs, wells, rivers and lakes,
and from the faucet, is replete with mineral elements which it has collected
from being in contact with earth, soil and rocks. Dust thou art, to dust shalt thou return, was not spoken of the soul.
All the minerals in the human
body--and the body is composed of minerals--are the same as the minerals of
which the earth is composed. Man's body was created from the dust of the Earth.
But there is a vast difference between the minerals in the human body and those
in the earth, not in kind or quality, but in the vitality of those which
compose the human anatomy, vitality or life--which is lacking in the earth
minerals.
The tiny microscopic
cells of the body are each a collection of mineral atoms, of live, vital atoms.
The kind, quality and variety of the mineral elements vary with each group of
cells, in accordance with the functions and activities called for in the cell's
allotted tasks.
Your cells need
food they can swallow--without choking to death!
These cells must be furnished
the mineral nourishment they need, in order to accomplish their work. Minerals
which a cell or a group of cells cannot use, will only
interfere with the cells' function. Minerals which are larger than in colloidal
particles would, figuratively speaking, choke the cells to death!
The minerals in Natural
Waters are gross and lifeless, a kind and quality which are incompatible with
the cells' needs. The cells therefore reject them. In due course this rejection
leaves a surprising accumulation of discarded minerals which is nothing more or
less than debris.
Distilled water
leaches out only unusable lime, etc.
Distilled water has
something inherent in it in the nature of a magnet, so to speak, whereby it can
pick up these rejected and discarded minerals and, with the assistance of the
blood and the lymph, transport them to the kidneys for elimination from the
system. This cleaning-up function is not constant.
It is this kind of
mineral elimination that is erroneously referred to as leaching. The expression
that distilled water leaches minerals from the body is entirely inaccurate. It
does not leach out body minerals, it collects and removes minerals which have
been rejected by the cells of the body and are therefore nothing more nor less than debris, obstructing the normal functions of
the system.
As a matter of fact, try
drinking nothing but distilled water for two or three weeks. Have a urinalysis
made before you start and see if you will not be astonished at the mineral
sediments in the urine after a mere three weeks! There is no substitute for
experience.
The accumulation of
minerals in the body, from drinking natural waters, and the elimination of
rejected minerals as a result of drinking distilled water is conclusive
evidence of the use and value of distilled water for drinking and for food
preparation purposes.
What Minerals
Does The Body Need?
It is not intended that
we should furnish the body with the minerals it must have for regeneration and
replenishment, by means of the natural waters. The minerals which the cells of
the body will use for constructive purposes must come from the raw food we eat.
The only live food, food replete with enzymes, which is intended for the
nourishment of man is obtained from fresh raw
vegetables, fruits, herbs, nuts and seeds.
We have just received
information from a man who practices what he preaches. Dr. N.W. Walker is now
well over the hundred and ten year mark, still writing and tilling his own
garden.
I have met Paul C. Bragg
and want to say that here was another great man (although now deceased) that
did a lot for mankind, in teaching the use of distilled water for better
health. As a teenager, Paul Bragg had tuberculosis and his doctors had told him
there was no cure, that he was "not going to make
it."
The little Swiss nurse
was angry with the doctors and after they left she told him he could be cured
in
He became well and, as
he put it, "strong as a young stallion." He studied two years in
From one of Paul Bragg's
books "The Shocking Truth about Water" (Burbank, CA 91303, Health
Science, 1970), I would like to pass on to you the following:
Take my own life, for
instance. I was born on a farm in
When we boiled this
water, incrustations of these inorganic minerals formed in large slabs inside
the kettles, and in time produced holes in the bottoms. Kettle after kettle had
to be thrown away and replaced by another, with the same thing happening to the
new one in time.
The hard water made dish
washing, laundering and cleaning difficult. The soaps used for these purposes
simply would not make suds.
But the greatest damage
done by this hard water was to the humans who drank it.
My grandfather was a man
in his mid-sixties. He was a big, strong six-footer, about 200 pounds of solid
muscle. He was an expert horseman, a finished hunter and a hardworking farmer.
I can remember when he
had his first stroke. There was a large family of Braggs, and we were all
seated at the dinner table. Suddenly there was a crash of dishes, and my
grandfather slumped over the table. When the country doctor arrived, he stated
sadly that grandfather had lost all control of his left side due to brain
damage.
From now on this poor
old man needed constant attention. With a completely paralyzed left side, he
could not walk without the aid of someone to steady him. He had absolutely no
control of his eliminative system. This, helpless, sick man went into rages of
anger. There was great difficulty getting food into his body because he had
lost the ability to chew it. Only very soft bland food could be fed him.
This fine man we knew
and loved was, as far as real living was concerned, dead. You have no idea what
a great burden he was on my parents and family. The poor, helpless man dragged
on this way for three years and then the second and final stroke came and he
was actually dead.
His body went to the
It was many years before
my questions were answered. In the meantime, I witnessed what the hard water
was doing to my family and our relatives and friends.
Here we were living on a
big, fine farm, with an abundance of foods of all kinds. We had a good,
comfortable home. It was a beautiful farm on a majestic river. But there was
suffering among the adults. These pains were bulked into one word, and that was
"misery." Each day I would hear my mother ask different people,
"How is your misery today?" And the sufferer would give a doleful
answer to my mother's questions.
Allen E. Banik, O.D., with Carlson Wade in the book "Your Water
and Your Health" (Keats Publishing Co., Connecticut 06840, 1974) gives us
a listing of the ten basic kinds of water;
Hard Water. This is
saturated with calcium, iron, magnesium, and many other inorganic minerals. All
water in lakes, rivers, on the ground, in deep wells, is classified as hard
water. (Many city systems take water from rivers or lakes, or reservoirs
supplied with mountain water; they erroneously call their supplies "soft
water" but it is soft only in comparison with water which is harder.)
Boiled Water. Boiling helps remove some of the germs,
but concentrates the inorganic minerals. Other germs are carried into a fertile
element for rapid and lusty propagation of germs and viruses already in the
body.
Raw Water. This has not been boiled. Raw water may be
hard (as calcium hardened water) or soft as rain water. It contains millions of
germs and viruses. In every densely inhabited drop.
Some of these viruses and bacteria may adversely affect the thyroid gland, the
liver and other vital body organs.
Rain Water. This has been condensed from the clouds.
The first drop is distilled water. But when it falls as rain, it picks up
germs, dust, smoke, minerals, strontium 90, lead and many other atmospheric
chemicals. By the time rain water reaches the earth it is so saturated with
dust and pollutants it may be yellowish in color. Water is supposed to act as
an atmosphere purifier. If we had no air pollution, we would have far less
pollution in our drinking water.
Snow Water. This is frozen rain. Freezing does not
eliminate any germs. All snowflakes have hardened mineral deposits. Melt the
cleanest snow and you will find it saturated with dirt, inorganic minerals,
germs and viruses.
Filtered Water. This water has passed through a fine
strainer, called a filter. Some calcium and other solid substances are kept in
the filter; there is no filter made which can prevent germs from passing
through its fine meshes. Each pore of the finest filter is large enough for a
million viruses to seep through in a few moments. A home
filter usually only picks up suspended solids and is effective for the
time, maybe only for hours, until it is filled up. Then it is ineffective even
for removing suspended solids, and at the same time becomes a breeding ground
for bacteria.
Soft Water. This water is soft in comparison with
water which is harder. It may contain many trace minerals and chemicals,
viruses and bacteria. It is not to be confused with "softened water."
Soft water may be classified as water which is harder than distilled water.
Reverse Osmosis. This is
a system of water purification which allows pre-filtered water to be forced
through a semi-permeable membrane to separate impurities from our drinking
water. However, this membrane allows only certain molecules to pass through
providing the water pressure is exactly constant. The matter of water pressure
is a problem still to be solved. Furthermore, the membrane also allows some
iron and nitrate molecules to pass through. Another problem
to be solved.
But it now seems
promising that we can look forward to tremendous strides in this system of
water purification. Gulf Oil, Culligan and Eastman
Kodak are sponsoring vast research in this area. High purity water between 90
and 97 percent of the dissolved mineral (and organic solutions), and over 99
percent of the suspended and colloidal particles are rejected by, the special
membrane which has been developed for this process by these companies in their
research. The product water, from this new research, is ultra-clear, low in
dissolved solids, practically free from hardness components and essentially
sterile as produced. This makes a close second to distilled water.
De-ionized Water. A process of exchanging
"hard" ions for "soft." The total ions are still
present. The end result is the same. But the water has the appearance of being
distilled. (Nature recognizes transformation but not extinction!) Since water
leaving the sodium-cation exchanger has little
hardness, it contains sodium salts.
Distilled Water. This is water that has first been turned
into steam so that all of its impurities are left behind. Then through
condensation, it is turned back into pure water. It is the only pure water. The only water free from all contamination. Distilled water
may well be considered the only pure water on earth.
Writing in Food,
Yearbook of the U.S., Department of Agriculture, 1959, Dr. Oaf Michelsen of the National Institute of Health, tells us:
Next to oxygen, water is
the most important factor for survival of man and animals. A person can do
without food for five weeks or more, but without water he can survive for only
a few days. The longer an individual goes without water, the greater the number
and severity of symptoms he shows.
Weakness, lassitude,
thirst and dryness of the mouth are the first signs of dehydration. Loss of
weight and mental confusion set in later. The individual becomes uncooperative
and sullen. The cheeks become pale and the lips are dry and bluish. The skin
loses its elasticity. The eyeballs have a sunken appearance. The volume of
urine decreases, and its specific gravity rises. At the end, the respiration
ceases, even though the pulse and general circulation may be well maintained.
The volume of blood is maintained at the expense of the water within the body
cells. The central nervous system undergoes the same dehydration as the cells
in the remainder of the body and is the first area to show functional changes.
How Water Acts as
the "Lubrication" of Your Body
Rose's Foundation of
Nutrition (5th Edition, pps. 118-120) explains that
water is an essential constituent of living protoplasm. No cell functions when
it is absolutely dry, and most cells must be constantly bathed in fluid in
order to do their work.
Furthermore, human cells
depend on having their food transported to them over a fluid route--the
blood--a demand which alone requires about 10 pounds of water to be in
circulation constantly. Waste-bearing water (urine) is necessary to flush away
the end products of metabolism. And without water to moisten the surface of the
lungs there can be no intake of oxygen or expulsion of carbon dioxide.
Dr. W. B. Cannon, the
famous physiologist, author of "Wisdom of the Body," explains it in a
nutshell:
Water is the vehicle for
food materials absorbed from the digestive canal; it is the medium in which
chemical changes take place that underlie most of our obvious activities; it is
essential in the regulation of body temperature and it plays an important part
in mechanical services such as lubrication of joint surfaces.
In addition to this,
water aids in the digestive process, in the waste elimination in the
circulation, temperature regulation and to protect your body as a lubricant
against friction, etc.
Water is so valuable to
the entire system of the human body that it is wise to use only the Best. Use
pure steam distilled water for health and well being.
I personally did not
know anything about distilled water until just a few years ago. My knowledge of
it came in a rather odd way. I had been sitting in a wheelchair (and
occasionally up on crutches) for approximately nine months-with both arthritis
and also from an accident I had been in a few years before when I had received
a concussion on my skull. Build-up of a calcification condition from the former
fractured area had put pressure on the brain area causing a paralyzed condition
on the right side of my body. I had lost my health-food store (the original
"The Herb Shop") in
Here was a ridiculous
situations "health" doctor opening a health-food store in a wheel
chair. The business started to grow slowly and one day as I sat there, a young
fellow came in to do business with me and as he left he dropped a copy of
"The Choice Is Clear", by Dr. Banik, saying, "I'll bet this will help you!" As
I read the booklet through, I was completely sold on distilled water, so called
up a company and had some delivered to me. I started using it faithfully and
was out of the wheelchair in a very short time. Over the years I had helped
patients leave their wheelchairs and had used the same procedure on myself that
had cured them. It worked for them but not for me, until I combined my procedure
with "pure" water.
In order to keep up my
rigid schedule of traveling to well over a hundred cities a year, and to
various countries, I see to it that I have steam distilled water available
wherever I go. For this I am indeed grateful, to be able to travel continually
without the use of a wheelchair, crutches, or canes.
Some of us have to learn
the hard way-I hope you are much brighter than I was, to suffer as long as I
did before seeing the light.
Used by
permission. Dr. Christopher Newsletter: Volume 1 Number 10
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