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The Hindu-Yogi System of Practical Water Cure2100
nerves, respond to these abnormal conditions, and give out warning signs. If
you will check off the symptoms of the trouble arising from a deficient water
supply, you will have a list of a majority of the more common diseases. The
troubles arising from constipation, alone, will make quite a long list—and
yet, constipation is due almost if not entirely to a lack of fluids, in one form
or another, as we shall see as we proceed with this book.
Man’s body is a great water-system, with pipes, large and small running
in all directions, designed for the passage of fluids from one part of the
body to another—fluids of which water is the base, remember. And there
is only one way in which the supply of water naturally flows into the body—
the alimentary canal, from which the water is absorbed and carried to all
parts of the system, there to perform its wonderful work. Every organ of
the body laves, bathes and lives in fluids, and without a proper supply they
cannot function properly. Fluids dissolve the food and convert it into its
various elements, that other fluids may carry it to the parts of the body
where it nourishes and builds up the entire system, every cell demanding
and receiving its share. Other fluids carry back the broken-down tissue, and
waste-matter of the system, and expel it from the system by means of other
fluids. It is all the work of fluids you see—no matter what chemicals these
fluids may carry, the fluid medium is necessary,and the work of nature can
not proceed without it.
The medicinal effects of water are well known. Water acts as a tonic,
when taken internally and externally. In fevers the effect of water is quite
well known, and it forms a part of the intelligent therapy of the day, no
matter what the past history of medicine has been. Cold water scientifically
administered as a drink, will reduce excessive heart action while warm water
will increase the heart’s action. Water increases the secretion of the kidneys,
and helps that organ to excrete and dispose of the waste matter coming its
way. It also acts in a similar way on the other organs of excretion.
Water is a splendid appetizer, administered properly, and at a right
temperature. Hot water acts as a powerful stimulant, and also as an antiseptic.