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The Hindu-Yogi System of Practical Water Cure
The HinduYogi System of Practical Water Cure Author:Yogi Ramacharaka Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER WATER-DRINKING. In the preceding chapter, we called your attention to the important part played by water in the physiological processes of the huma... more »n system. We showed you that eighty per cent of the human body is composed of water, and that the work of the system depends largely upon water. We showed you that the healthy human being passes off in the shape of urine, perspiration etc., over two quarts of water every twenty-four hours. Now stop at this point and consider a moment. Over two quarts of water passed off every day—then where does it all come from? A portion comes from the liquid parts of the foods we eat, but the greater part must be placed in the system by means of water which we drink, else Nature is compelled to draw upon the fluids of the system for the deficiency, or else go on sliort allowance. If she draws on the fluids of the system, of which she has such agreat store, the result is that sooner or later the body will become thin, and dried, and the person will lack sufficient blood and the other juices and fluids of the system—this is a logical necessity, for if the reserve is drawn upon, and is not replenished in like quantity a shortage must occur. But Nature generally compromises, and rather than deplete the body entirely of its reserve fluids, she compels the system to work on short allowance, and the result being that improper and abnormal functioning follows, and the patient suffers from a number of ailments, beginning with constipation, developing into dyspepsia, and ending in bloodlessness. And we see these people on every side of us, every day. If you doubt this, examine these rundown people, and in every case you will find that they take but a limited amount of fluids, while on the other hand, if you will examine the habits of the healthy ...« less