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Maria Kuman. Does the Water Have Memory and Why?. Nat Ayurvedic Med 2020, 4(1): 000221 Copyright© Maria Kuman Journal of Natural & Ayurvedic Medicine MEDWIN PUBLISHERS ISSN: 2578-4986 Committed to Create Value for researchers Does the Water Have Memory and Why? Maria Kuman* Holistic Research Institute, USA Review Article Volume 4 Issue 1 Received Date: December 05, 2019 *Corresponding author: Maria Kuman, PhD, Holistic Research Institute, 1414 Barcelona January 23, 2020 Dr. Knoxville, TN 37923, USA, Tel: 865-309-4901; Email: [email protected]; Webpage: Published Date: DOI: 10.23880/jonam-16000221 www.mariakuman.com Abstract Plants and humans are mostly water, which makes the answer of this question essential. The article explains that if we have computers with memory, it is because the computers use chips made of crystals, which have memory. Scientists recently found that glass and gels also have memory, which can be explained with the chunks of crystals imbedded in their structure. However, it was found that colloidal solutions and even soap bubbles also have memory, which could only be explained if liquid water has memory. When the ice melts to become liquid water, only 40% of the H-bonds are melted. So, liquid water is different size and shape clusters of ice swimming in liquid water and if the liquid water has retained most of its crystalline structure,was ridiculed it could for this. memorize. His conclusion The French was right,immunologist but being Benveniste immunologist was hethe could first notto claim explain that why the the water water has has memory memory. and The he research of Montagnier straightforward showed that even when the entire DNA of HIV virus is filtered out, the water can still bringThe present the infection article becauseexplains the the electromagnetic memory of water, field the (NEMF) memory of of the the DNA acupuncture of the HIV-virus points, is etc. imprinted on the water structure. Keywords: Water Memory; Why Water Memory; Benveniste Water Memory; Montagnier Water Memory; Acupuncture Points’ Memory Introduction the ice melts to form liquid water, only 40% of the hydrogen bonds between the water molecules are melted [1]. So, liquid Everybody, who has been born at the seashore, like me, water is chunks of ice swimming in liquid water and these knows that the winters at the seashore are much milder chunks of ice are called clusters. because the seawater accumulates the Sun’s heat during the summer and emits it during the winter. This is water memory- If liquid water contains clusters of crystalline ice, it the water has imprinted in its structure the Sun’s heat in the should be able to memorize. Scientists recently found that summer and emits it with a delay during the winter. glass, gels, colloidal solutions, and even soap bubbles have memory [2]. What is the reason for it? The glass and gels Everybody, who uses computer, must know that the have chunk of crystals in them, while the colloidal solutions computers memorize through chips made of crystals. If and soap bubbles have liquid water, which are clusters of the crystals were not able to memorize, we wouldn’t have crystalline solid ice swimming in the liquid state of water. computers. What this has to do with liquid water? When Does the Water Have Memory and Why? Nat Ayurvedic Med 2 Journal of Natural & Ayurvedic Medicine More about the Water Structure I asked energy healer, who heals with hands, to do clockwise movements on top of a bowl with water. I measured with The ice clusters make the water structure highly sensitive IR equipment the emission of this water and found inhomogeneous and inhomogeneous structures have strong infrared emission from it [7]. nonlinear properties [3]. One of these nonlinear properties is memory. Surrounding each cluster are two layers of water I was surprised that the treated water when left at room molecule in dynamic equilibrium, which means that these temperature was still emitting the IR energy of the energy molecules can stay connected to the ice cluster or leave healer in the second and third day [7], while the Brownian depending on the external conditions. This makes the water movement of the water molecules was supposed to dissipate structure very dynamic and capable to adapt to different this energy overnight. I learned a few years later, when I environments by changing its structure. got acquaintant with nonlinear physics that the human The water can reorganize its structure very fast and the ice clusters can change their size very fast. It was found in electromagnetic field is strongly nonlinear and nonlinear Russia that the size of the water clusters changes in quants fieldsSimilar do not experimentsdissipate easily. with water, which hand-healers [4]. The basic water quant is a cluster of 57 water molecules. treated for 3 minutes, were also done in Russia some years later. They showed that the water treated with hands was molecules, which are conglomerates of 16 cluster quants. emitting 300% more energy than the control [4]. Dr. Zvenin However, it is possible to find ice clusters as big as 912 explained this phenomenon with the dynamic of ice-clusters’ The clusters of solid ice swimming in liquid water can change their size and shape when minerals or other [4].configurations This can happen– changes only in if thethe configurationice clusters areof onerelated ice all kinds of external factors – temperature, atmospheric stronglycluster lead in a to nonlinear changes way.in the configuration of all ice clusters substances are dissolved in it or under the influence of claim that magnetized water exists and has properties Russian investigations of Acad. Goskov [4] showed that differentpressure, fromelectric the or normal magnetic water fields. [5]. BasedThe magnetize on this, we water can when the energy of positive emotions is imprinted on water, will be subject to another article. wheat seeds watered with such water germinate much faster and the degree of the sped-up germination depends on the The ice clusters make the water inhomogeneous and duration of the impact of positive emotions. The Russian scientist Prof. Bolotova [4] showed that negative emotions, of information: music, human energy, even emotions and in particular anger, not only changed the clusters’ structure, thoughtstheir flexible [6], dynamicwhich is structurecalled water allows memory. imprint The of physicist all kind it changed some of the water molecules from H2O to D2O, and Dr. Wolfgang Ludwig of Los Angeles, consultant of the D O is toxic for the body. International Research Organization, said: “The water has 2 the memory of an elephant” [4]. Japanese studies of Masaru Emoto showed that classical freezeThe the dynamic arrow flexibleof an instrument structure of and water not is allow even itinfluenced to move, music makes the water crystalize in beautiful symmetric suchby our people thoughts. could andIf people would with change strong the water energy structure. fields can An patterns [6]. He also found that positive thoughts and positive energy healer in Russia changed the water conductivity with 7,000 microamperes [4]. On the background of all this, even symmetric patterns. At the same time, he found that negative the mental effort of Jesus to change the water into wine at the emotions (like love) make the water crystalize in beautiful wedding in Canaan seems quite in reach. crystalize in ugly asymmetric patterns [6]. thoughts and negative emotions (like anger) make the water Water and Cancer Russian scientists found that the water structure is very of disintegrated cells, which multiply senselessly out of [4].sensitive Change to in external the atmospheric influences. pressure Electric causes current another passing type controlCancer, [8]. inThe its cellsfinal statecannot malignancy, communicate is a jumbledand manifest mass through the water causes one type of ice cluster configuration collective behavior any more; neither can they form a useful architecture. Since the space between the cells is mainly of ice cluster configuration [4]. When water is exposed to water, in the case of cancer there should be something in the light,Thus, it has the a third water type structure of ice cluster records configuration each type of[4]. energy water structure, which makes the communication of cells impossible. recording information. I did my own measurements in 1981. in a specific way, which means that the water is capable of Maria Kuman. Does the Water Have Memory and Why?. Nat Ayurvedic Med 2020, 4(1): 000221 Copyright© Maria Kuman. 3 Journal of Natural & Ayurvedic Medicine Speaking about the amount of water in the body, we effect of anti-bodies was still there even when the solution should acknowledge its decline with aging. According to was so diluted that anti-bodies were no longer present. This Russian studies [9], the amount of water in the fetus is 95%, reminded him homeopathy. He stated that the water must in the baby – 92%, and it constantly decreases. Between age have the ability to memorize. Only memorizing could explain 20 and 30 the amount of water in the body is 70%, between his experiment as well as the fact that the homeopathic remedies work even when the substance is so diluted that not even one molecule of the substance is left [12]. age 40After and the 50 ageit is 50%of 70, (this the isamount when the of wrinkleswater in appear).the body drops down to 30%. This is when the bones become brittle When asked, how the water does the memorizing, because what make the bones elastic are vertical capillaries Benveniste’s answer was: “I am immunologist, not a with structured water. When the amount of water in the body physicist.” Being a physicist, I would try to explain how the drops down to 30%, there is no enough water in the bone’s water memorizes the information of the substance that was capillaries to keep the bones elastic and they become brittle diluted in it.
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