Today we all forget about out clay pitchers and got addicted to plastic container water ,refrigerator water, but do we ever bother to understand the main logical concept of drinking clay pitcher water. Why in ancient times and even today health conscious people prefer to have clay pitcher water instead of refrigerated water ?
Lets understand the logic
- NATURAL ELEMENT
Its only clay which gives birth to unlimited fruits ,vegetables , flowers ,seeds etc. Clay contains all the necessary natural elements required by our body. Clay pots not only cool the water down, they also provide healing with the elements of earth. Most significantly, clay pots transfer the chill to the water based on the climate.
- COOLING EFFECT
When you store water in a clay pot, the evaporation happens. This process causes cooling as water particles gain energy in the form of heat, then change to gas and get mixed with air. A clay pot has small holes visible at the microscopic level through which water seeps out and gains energy to become gas and gets evaporated causing cooling. Heat and moisture circulate throughout the pot, quite opposite to the metal or enamel-lined crockery that we use today.
- ALKALINE AND HEALTHY
Another benefit of clay water pots is the alkaline nature of clay. The alkaline clay interacts with the acidity of water and provides the proper pH balance. This water can the overly acidic qualities of food as well . help curb acidity and in turn provides relief from gastronomic pains. This nature of clay is quite useful and is one of the few well-documented benefits of drinking water from an earthen pot. When food is cooked in an earthen pot, the clay helps to neutralize.
- BOOST METABOLISM
Drinking the right amount of water everyday can help us boost metabolism. We usually store water in plastic containers, without realizing that there are harmful chemicals like BPA (Bisphenol A) in plastic that cling onto the water molecules and pose a health hazard. Alternatively, drinking water from a clay pot can help improve metabolism without dangerous chemicals like BPA added to the fray. Clay water tastes natural, pleasantly chilled and also helps improve metabolism and virtility.
- PURIFICATION
In this virtual world, where everyone is behind technology and advancement, there are people who still rely on the traditional methods of water purification. This makes earthen pot sustainable. It has the values and believes attached to its form and function. Water stored gets naturally purified and healthy. Moreover, the material decomposes back to nature without polluting the environment. Functionality causes zero percent exploitation of resources indeed! It is a refrigerator which doesn’t require electricity.
- MAINTAINS TEMPERATURE
In the scorching summer heat the clay pot water is good as compared to fridge water to avoid sunstroke also the other reason could have been that the sudden temperature change could make us sick. What we did not realize though, is that the water stored in an earthen pot is gentle on the throat. It is an ideal drink for people suffering from cough or cold. It is assumed that people, who drink water from an earthen pot, have less chances of developing throat infection compared to those, who drink chilled water from the fridge.
When you talk about drinking water, you need to be extra cautious. Nowadays most of us drink mineral water or the one from the RO purifier and store it in plastic bottles. In olden times everybody used to drink from the clay pot or earthen pot and they were a way lot healthier than us.
Can you believe that by just changing the way the water is stored, you can make it healthy!”
Stay Healthy. Drink Healthy !
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