Water

Hydrotherapy is all about the water. This page attempts to illuminate water's specialness. Before science reduced heterogenous waters to a singular molecular structure, water was recognised as something sacred that connected all of life (Strang, 2015; Linton, 2010; Bartholomew, 2010).

'According to the molecular-level based paradigm, water is a passive and homogeneous solvent close to equilibrium. This is in contrast to the new systemic view of water as an active substance which adaptively responds to external and internal constraints, cues and signals, by generation of complex sustainable organization on all scales. That complex organization, in turn, can have singular effects on substances immersed in water and, in particular, on the functioning of biological constituents from molecules to living cells' (Ben-Jacob, 2010: 8).

"You are not sick,

you are thirsty. Don't treat thirst with medication."

Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj

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The late Dr Batmanghelidj published his experiences of treating chronically dehydrated patients in Your Body's Many Cries for Water (1992). His core message was that the body produces pain, and other symptoms of ill health, when it is short of water. Dr Batmanghelidj declared dehydration causes many degenerative diseases such as asthma, arthritis, heart disease, diabetes, lupus and multiple sclerosis. For more information, visit www.watercure.com

The World Federation of Hydrotherapy and Climatotherapy (FEMTEC) recently published a report Water and Health and accompanying manifesto Water is Life, Wellness and Health (2015), in which, all countries are encouraged to promote hydration as key health and well-being factors. The United Nations (UN) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have been invited to organise a World Hydration Day to raise awareness of this issue.

New Frontiers in Medicine

Professor Luc Montagnier, joint recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of the AIDS virus, is currently investigating a new paradigm in biology that involves electromagnetic waves and water. His work arguably vindicates the Memory of Water hypothesis, proposed by Jacques Benveniste over thirty years ago, and looks set to have implications for the Western Biomedicine (WBM) model. Click here for an interview in which Montagnier explains his ideas.

- Hydrotherapy -

a medical anthropological

approach to healing with water

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