THERE is no need to state the obvious about how vital water is to human life, and even in the past six months in Cyprus, lifestyles have had to change drastically to work around the stringent restrictions in supply.
But there are those who believe that there is much more to water than simply quenching thirst or using it in everyday life, from flushing the toilet to washing clothes, growing plants and keeping ourselves clean.
“For many people, that just about covers the subject of water. But not for those of us who know that we are responsible for our own health,” says
Antonis Antoniades, who runs the Zitrone Natural Life shop in Limassol with his German wife.
Antoniades said it was evident that many people believe that you are not only what you eat but also what you drink, given the size of the global bottled water industry.
For him, even that is not enough to guarantee health, however. “Many people think bottled water does enough, but it only offers a small percentage of what water can actually give you,” he said. “Bottled water is dead. It’s chemically clean, but it’s dead.”
Antoniades’ interest in seeking out “optimum water” started in Germany based on the New Age concept that water has memory and holds, not only the physical substances it comes in contact with, but also ‘imprints’, ‘impressions’ or ‘information’ of that substance. This passes into the human body.
“When one purifies water, and even if one distils it, the information on the harmful materials, the transmittable electro-magnetic vibrations, can still be found in the water molecules,” said Antoniades. “While our water therefore is chemically pure, it is still contaminated with harmful information.”
Re-energising water ‘new-age style’ often requires the use of crystals and other methods that many might call “airy fairy”, but there are also actual systems that claim to bring water to its ‘back to nature’ state.
Antoniades said some years ago he came across such a system designed by a German physicist Peter Gross. The system is called Aqua Lyros, and it involves 15 processes through which tap water is put to activiate it.
“Living water provides each person with the energy and frequencies they individually need and it also seems that it is possible to wash even aluminium and cadmium out of the body,” said Antoniades.
“This was objectively confirmed by measurements taken at the Fachhochschule Nordostniedersachsen University in Suderburg in the course of urine examinations of different test subjects.”
Antoniades said he initially brought an Aqua Lyros for his own use. “It’s not always possible to wake up and embrace your water tank,” he said, referring to some of the New Age methods.
The system is attached to the mains, diverting the supply through a small device that pushes the water through the various processes, which simulate how river water interacts with its enviroment, such as pressurised swirling and magnetising. A second small pipe then takes the water back into the mains.
When he first started using the water, Antoniades said his body produced strong detoxification symptoms. “The body reacts immediately,” he said, adding that one buyer, a Nicosia doctor, noticed his aches and pains had stopped after bathing in the water.
Also in a testimony on the Zitrone website, an expat couple in their fifties living in a village in Paphos said the system had changed their lives. The Sunday Mail was not able to contact the couple as their answering machine said they were off the island.
However, they said they both noticed a substantial increase in the vitality and body of their hair. “The bath is also rejoicing in the absence of hair in the waste!” said the comment, adding that some old aches and pains had also begun to disappear.
“Skin is soft, and eyes seem clearer. Our grandchildren, who would not previously drink water without juice, quickly joined us as water drinkers. Even my brother ordered a system after one weekend stay. Now there’s a recommendation,” said the comment.
“I have a friend of 73 who tasted our water, and now requires me to deliver him water in bottles several times per week as he is also losing his arthritic symptoms, and won’t drink anything else.”
Antoniades said that in general the feedback he’s had has been positive. He has been selling the system in Cyprus for three years. “I don’t advertise it,” he said. “One customer brings another.”
The Aqua Lyra takes around half an hour to install, and can be done by any plumber. Antoniades checks that it is done correctly.
“It works in the same way as computer-users do by reformatting their hard disks,” said Antoninades. “In water therapy, this ‘formatting’ above all gets rid of harmful information derived from environmental toxins, such as heavy metals or chlorinated hydrocarbons. This biological reversal also brings with it a considerable increase in vitality.”
By Jean Christou
HEALING water, living water, activated water, hexagonal water, electrolysed water, ionized water, holy water, magnetic water, the world is awash with methods of optomising water for better health.
It’s also awash with debate over whether such a thing is scientifically possible. Scientists do have a word for water that appears structurally different than the norm. They call it “anomalous water”, but essentially dismiss the notion of healing water as pseudoscience, or religious nonsense.
Two major examples of “anomalous water” are water from Lourdes and water from India’s Ganges River, both hailed by the religious as miracle working.
Hindus worship the Ganges. The Indian emperor Akbar called it the “water of immortality”, although basic tests, or even a mere glace at the Ganges, will tell you the water is filthy.
Last year, independent television producer Julian Crandall Hollick went searching for the mysterious Ganges factor. A retired professor of hydrology, who has spent years testing water along the river, told him: “Organic material usually exhausts a river’s available oxygen and starts putrefying, but in the Ganges, an unknown substance, or ‘X factor’ that Indians refer to as a ‘disinfectant’, acts on organic materials and bacteria and kills them.”
The water apparently has oxygen levels 25 times higher than any other river in the world. Another molecular biologist said the Ganges water never seems to spread disease among those who bathe in it, and also refereed to the river’s mysterious ability to retain oxygen.
Similar stories are told from Lourdes, where the Virgin Mary supposedly appeared to Bernadette Soubirous. Despite thousands of sick people bathing in it daily, no one has been infected, even if the water does not cure everyone who goes there.
Most tests on Lourdes water by scientists find it no different than ordinary water, but one study demonstrated that the decay of chlorine concentration in samples of common water was significantly slower if a certain amount of Lourdes water was added to the sample, independent of the dilution ratio.
Another study found Lourdes water included the whole frequency range of light, as it never occurs in common water sources. “Such uncommonly perfect and powerful frequencies prevent pathogens from injuring one’s health,” the study concluded. “Furthermore, I could see that Lourdes water frequencies positively affected the whole body, and specifically ectodermic tissues such as the skin and the nervous system.”
“Holy waters are nothing else than ‘living’ waters,” said Antoniades. “Measurements taken from water from Lourdes and the River Ganges, and samples of other curative waters have shown that these demonstrate particularly positive electro-magnetic vibrations. Ganges water, although it is actually very dirty water, has a particularly ideal spectrum. It demonstrates exclusively those frequencies which are beneficial to humans. This applies similarly to water from other curative springs around the world.”
Despite debunkers of the notion of “living water”, in some cases probably justified given the amount of so-called healing waters being sold out there for exorbitant prices, science has apparently not given up.
Only last year, American scientists developed chemically modified water which they say speeds up wound healing, and kills viruses, bacteria and fungi.
New Scientist magazine reported that the water was also effective against MRSA, and UK trials are being carried out on patients with diabetic foot ulcers.
The key ingredient of the water, called Microcyn, are oxychlorine ions – electrically charged molecules. The breakthrough appears to indicate that the structure of water could perhaps, after all, be changed to benefit health.
