BY OUR STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI, Feb 7: The research of an MD of Ayurveda Dr Parmeshwar Arora has claimed that from the perspective of Ayurveda it has been found that drinking too much water can react as poison.
Addressing the press on Wednesday, Dr Arora said, “These days it is a common practice that if anyone wants to fix digestion, they are advised to drink lots of water. If anyone has to detox their body, it is again advised to drink a lot of water. When there is burning while passing urine, the solution is again supposed to be drinking a lot of water. Researching the whole phenomenon of water as a solution to these diseases when made a thorough research through Ayurveda perspective, I found the opposite.”
“As per Ayurveda, a generally healthy person should drink adequate amount of water in summer (mid-May to mid-July) and autumn (mid-September to mid-December) and minimum possible amount of water in rest of the seasons. If someone has a tendency to drink too much of water at a time even when thirsty, this can become a cause of ‘Pitta’ and ‘Kafa’ related diseases like indigestion, bloating, usea, vomiting, over-salivation, heaviness in the body and even cold-cough and respiratory issues. Especially, fever patients should only drink small quantity of water slowly and with patience,” Arora added.
Arora said that the excess water consumed, being a good medium of transportation, pushes the food down ahead of time irrespective of digestive stage. Due to this hurry, the digestion-process of the prior stages is missed out and hence the digestion remains incomplete. This results in a condition of indigestion. Even in summer season, consuming small quantity of water at regular intervals, when feeling thirsty, helps in maintence of better health. Consumption of more water in summer season is usually the reason behind digestion fire becoming sluggish and hence people feel less hungry and also there is trouble in digesting consumed food.
Arora said: “Anyone who tends to consume water in excess or at wrong time or in wrong manner initially weakens his digestive fire (Jatharagni) and subsequently fire at tissue level (Dhaatvagni) and cellular level (Bhutaagni). It gives rise to a condition of Ajeer (Indigestion and Aama (undigestive food) at various levels in the body. Ajeer and Aama are supposed to be the root cause of almost every disease, including diabetes, high blood pressure, and kidney & heart diseases.”