Useful and medicinal properties of mineral water
The healing properties are possessed by water saturated with mineral salts, organic and biological active substances, as well as by wound gases. Such water is called mineral water. Depending on the content of certain ingredients in the mineral water and the electric charge of ions, it has various healing properties. In addition, the physiological effect of a mineral water is determined by its temperature( which varies widely - from 1 to 40C or more) and the way water is taken( in a gulp or in small sips, long before meals or just before meals).The main medicinal properties of mineral water depend on its chemical composition.
For example, the hydrocarbonate ion is involved in maintaining the acid-base balance in the body. Such water as narzan, Borjomi, having an alkaline reaction, normalizes the motor and secretory function of the gastrointestinal tract, reduces dyspeptic disorders. It is useful not only for diseases of the digestive system, but also for inflammatory processes in the genitourinary system.
With constipation of bile in the gallbladder and with reduced acidity of the gastric juice, mineral water with an ionic chloride content of Essentuki No. 4,
is useful. For constipation, sulfate mineral waters( Batalinskaya, arzni) that irritate the intestinal mucosa are recommended, thereby strengthening its peristalsis.
The glandular mineral waters( martial, jermuk) stimulate the formation of blood and therefore it is useful to take them with anemia.
Iodine mineral waters are used for atherosclerosis. In the case of neuroses, mineral waters are prescribed, in which bromine is included( for example, ta-aya).Water with silicic acid has a painful, antitoxic and anti-inflammatory effect.
In recent years, radon mineral waters have been distributed as drinking water, as it has been found that in small amounts they are useful in the case of pyelonephritis and gastrointestinal tract disorders.
Carbon dioxide in many mineral waters stimulates the motor and secretory activity of the stomach and intestines, which is useful in diseases characterized by reduced gastric secretion and sluggish peristalsis of the intestine.
Competent use of mineral waters can reduce or increase the acidity of gastric juice, improve blood circulation in the stomach and liver, strengthening the flow of arterial blood and venous outflow, which is very beneficial for the activity of organs, in particular because it reduces or completely eliminates hypoxia - oxygen starvationtissues, which increases their resistance to the effects of disease-causing factors. As a result of the intake of mineral waters in the liver, metabolic processes are normalized, bile stagnation is eliminated, the process of ulcer healing is accelerated in the stomach!restored function of the stomach glands. Mineral water has a beneficial effect on the pancreas, in particular with pancreatitis, inflammation of the pancreas.
Importance is given to mineral waters as stimulants of secretion of intestinal hormones
gastrin and secretin, which are necessary for normal digestion. In addition, mineral waters act on the gastrointestinal tract and reflexively. Therefore, we can talk about the neuro-moral mechanism of the influence of mineral waters on the digestive system.
The source of Marcial Waters in the north-west of the country under Peter I was the first to be discovered in Russia. He believed very much in the healing properties of mineral waters, he often visited his spa with his wife( the future Catherine I) at a resort in the source area, and recommendedAD Menshikov was treated there. In one of the documents of that era, we read: "The king, following an ordinary ceremony, reasoning about the illness of his lordship, deigned to announce the unheard-of effect of mineral waters."
In Russia, mineral water treatment in the resorts has become widespread.
The food substances include water, without which life is impossible. It is in the water environment that biochemical reactions take place, which is due to the unique physico-chemical properties of water-this truly amazing fluid. It is not by chance that life originated in her.
The living cell is 60-99,7% water, which allowed Dubois to assert: "A living organism is animate water."An adult human body weighing 65 kg contains an average of 40 water. Most of all( 25) is in cells, the remaining 15 constitute extracellular fluid. The younger the body, the more liquid there is in it, the amount of water in the body decreases with age.
Water is the only liquid on the Earth with specific physical and chemical properties. Water molecules easily decompose into ions - a positive
but charged hydrogen( H +) and a negatively charged hydroxyl( OH-).It is these ions that determine the spatial structure of proteins, lipids, nucleic acids and other organic substances. The polarity of water molecules is due to the ability to dissolve a variety of substances: mineral salts, simple alcohols, sugars, etc. This is why water serves as a medium where numerous chemical reactions take place that together create life.
Water plays a leading role in the body's heat regulation, it maintains thermal homeostasis, which allows it to adapt to changes in ambient temperature. As the temperature rises, evaporation of water from the surface of the body increases and it cools. Lowering the temperature of the air and the environment dramatically reduces the evaporation of water, and the heat in the body remains.
Loss of large amounts of water( by evaporation, as a result of vomiting, diarrhea, intensified diuresis) disrupts the constancy of the internal environment( salts are lost along with water).Normal vital activity of the body is unthinkable without preserving the water-salt balance.
It is important to consider the amount not only of the water introduced into the body, but also of the isolated one. If the amount of discharged water is less than the amount introduced, this may indicate, for example, worsening of the functions of the packs, the insufficiency of the cardiovascular system.
Naturally, a change in the chemical-physical state of water, its electrical conductivity leads to a change in metabolism, enhancing or inhibiting the course of biochemical reactions. Similar changes are observed in thawed, magnetized water and in water, according to
, which is radiated by means of electrolysis. The problem of the influence of ionized water on the organism has been intensively studied in recent years and interesting results have already been obtained.
Based on the fact that plant food alkalizes the body( which favorably affects physiological functions), it can be expected that negatively charged water, possessing alkaline properties, also has a beneficial effect on the body. Special experiments on animals and observations of people confirm these assumptions.
Our brief account of the role of water in living nature will end with the words of Antoine de Saint-Exupery: "You, the water, have no taste, color or smell, you can not describe, you enjoy, not knowing what you are. ..You are the greatest wealth in the world. "