Medicinal Value of Water.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 143, 16 June 1894, Page 3 (Supplement)

Medicinal Value of Water.

The human body is constantly undergoing tissue change. Worn-oub particles are cast aside and eliminated from the Bystem, while the new are ever being formed, from the inception of life to its close. Water bas the power of increasing these tissue changes, which multiplies the waste products, but at the same time they-are renewed by its agency, giving ri3O to increased appetite, which in turn provides fresh nutriment. Persons but little accustomed to drinking water are liable to have the waste products formed faster than they are removed. Any obstruction to the free working of natural laws at once produces disease, which, if once firmly seated, requires both time and money to cure. People accustomed to rise in the morning Weak and languid wili find the causo in the. imperfect secretion of wastes, which many bimes may be remedied by drinkine a full tumbler of water before retiring. This very materially assists in the process during the night, and leaves the tissues fresh and strong ready for the active work of the day. Hot water is one of our best remedial agents. : A warm bath on going to bed, even in the warm nights of summer, is a better reliever of insomnia than many drugs. Inflamed parts will subside under the continual application of hot water. Very hot water aB we all know, is a prompb checker of bleeding, and, besides, if ih is clean, as ib should be, ib aids in sfcer--1 ilising wounds.