Japan's Ultimate Martial Art: Jujitsu Before 1882 The Classical Japanese Art of Self-Defense by Darrell Max Craig

Author:Darrell Max Craig [Craig, Darrell Max]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 0804830274
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: 2011-12-19T16:00:00+00:00

THE IMPORTANCE OF WATER

The importance of drinking enough pure water and the relationship of water to preventive medicine are not recent discoveries. In 1904 Irving Hancock published a book about physical training. In it he noted:

At a very early date the samurai discovered the value of drinking a very considerable quantity of cool, pure water in every twenty-four hours. The amount consumed today by the average disciple of jiu-jitsu will reach the gallon mark.... Summer drinks, composed of shaved ice covered with fruit syrups, have crept into the life of the larger Japanese cities, but their use is not extensive, and the student of a jiu-jitsu school will have none of them. He is better taught.... From times of great antiquity, the athletic samurai understood the benefit of drinking only the purest of water.... The Japanese student of jiu-jitsu, when he finds a slight illness coming on, does not go to the doctor. The author is in the habit of drinking, normally, a gallon of water in twenty-four hours. Very recently he was threatened with tonsilitis. By practicially abstaining from food, and by adding a half-gallon of water a day to the usual quantity, he prevented the threatened illness without regard to any medicines. And this treatment was begun after the throat became sightly ulcerated.... It is believed by the Japanese that complete health cannot exist unless the internal system is most effectively cleansed by the imbibing of very frequent draughts of water—cool, not ice cold. The intestinal tract is likened, by our clever little neighbors of the Orient, to the sewer, that requires vigorous flushing.1

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