WATER

WATER the elixir of life.  One can stay for long period without food but not without water.

It carries life force to different parts of the body.

In olden days we had to go the place where the water was available.  Now we get it at our place, we do not travel long distances.

The water of a particular place carries with it the main characteristic of the land to which it belong to.  Water of different place has different effects on our mind and body.  That is the reason we were advised in the olden days to go to different places and take bath or drink the water of that place which cured many mental as well as physical diseases.

Every water of every soil, say alluvial, red sand, clay, brown marshy land has its own good and bad qualities.  In our puranas and ithihasas(epic) we would have read what happens to new entrants to a fresh body of water of another place.  In many place they contract new disease, discomfort body pain exertion or even get fever. In many cases they lose eye sight, become paralytic or get rashes throughout body or cured of a disease or even a deformity,  get enlightened suddenly.  All these are due to the specific nature of the body of water  due to presence of varied mater or energies in that particular water.  Thus the water of a place has many good and bad qualities.

Knowing the character of particular water, the saints of the olden days and temple priest, astrologers advised their clients to go to different places and take a dip or drink the water for a specific period during selected part of a year.

Each river water has its own qualities.  Similarly pond, lake, rivulet, catchment etc.  So do the rain, mist, hail fog water. 

Cool pure rainwater gives good knowledge and increase in semen.

Water formed from hail can cure hiccup, burning in extremities, help breathing, clear giddiness and induce coolness to body.

Water formed of mist, when taken in the early morning before sun rise can fully  cure rashes, karappan(eczema), leucoderma, body dehydration and diabetes.

River water can cure bile related diseases body burning.

Ganges water will reduce body heat, bile related diseases, body burning etc.

River Yamuna water will cure high temperature, leucoderma, cough, excess thirst, nausea and loss of semen.

River Godavari water will cure karappan(eczema), feverish tremor, the imbalance of three humors (thridosha- pitta, vaata and kappa) .

Water from Thungabadra River an cure diabetes, eczema(karappan), loss of semen, burning in the eye, cough and diseases related to urinary tract.

Water from Narmadha river can cure fever due to vomiting, nausea, hiccup, jaundice, blotted stomach and phlegm.

Water from Sindhu River can cure nervous irritation, eczema and oozing wound, loss of semen and leucorrhoea.

Vaigai River water can cure scabies, rashes, loss of semen, certain poisons and heavy thirst.

Water from River Cauveri can cure  stomach blotting, cough, swelling of the  liver swelling, phlegm formation, cold and blood  related defects.

Water from River Thaambarabharani, can cure burning in the eye, internal fever, breathing difficulties, diabetes and burning sensation in extremities.

Stagnant water in pond can cause vaata humor and also increase chillness in the body.

Water from Lotus tank will increase vaata and pitta humor and also increase the existing fever.

Water from Lilly pond will induce indigestion scabies, fever and loss of semen.

If one takes dip in very cold water it will destroy his body fitness and create all type of diseases.

Astringent lake water will increase (vaayu) air content in the body.  Spring water that comes out of rock will have thridosha (vaata, pitta and kappa humors), but taken after a day will increase body heat.

A rivulet water with astringent and sweet taste can create thirst and body strength.

A good well water can alleviate body heat, tiredness, hip pain, giddiness and pitta humor.

Spring water can reduce pitta humor immediately.

Water from waterfalls will remove anemic  condition give strength to body.

Red coloured water will remove heat developed due to heavy cough. It will induce semen loss and fever.

Black coloured water can cure vomiting, karappan(eczema),  body heat, phlegm formation in chest, asthmatic condition, long standing fever, acidic belging, tremor and  increase apitite.

Padi field water, can cool down the body and increase strength in body.

Algae water will induce all type of diseases. Runnung spring water can cure many diseases.  Water body covered by mist will reduce pitta humor. Water invested with dry leaves will augment fever.

Ever flowing river water will increase beauty.

Water covered by shadow will create stomach disorders.  Rain water will strengthen the body.  A well not used will induce asthma.    Where a tank gets continued  flow of water will not harm any one.  Stagnant tank water will induce disease.

The water formed with cooked rice kept overnight (pazhiya chooru – neeraakaram-tamil)  will correct the imbalance of the three humors and increase beauty and semen.

In this manner we will study some type of water latter on this subject.

In the present day of life style, we live in multistoried buildings and gated cities.  Water supplied to the residents are brought from different locations by lorries after  collecting the same in a tanker.  It is a mixer of, tank, lake, and deep well water.  In many cases the lake water gets depleted and the stagnant water is supplied. 

Where a lake gets a regular inflow from a river it is okay, if not this will  have its negative energies.  Thus the mixed water does not have any specific good nature.

The goodness of natural water gets lost in this process and we do not know what type of water we are  getting.  The stagnant water in the sump of multistoried buildings, for that matter, all stored water never see the sunlight which gives life to water.  Added to this all types of contamination are brought with the lorries.  

Thus we live in a system where chemical water is supplied to us instead of natural water.  To what extent it is potable we do not know.  The water we get now is man modified and not natural water.

The underground water  we pump may be from underground river, which is okay, or from from a rock catchment, in which case it carries with it all the chemical in the rock.  If the water comes from a sand catchment well and good.  In any case we  get a mixer of all types o water including water with full negative energy.

To conclude we may say we  use only artificially modified water rather than real natural water.