Antioxidant water therapy in the form of baths and showers
An advanced direction in the field of balneotherapy is antioxidant (electron-donor) water therapy
in the form of baths and showers using electrochemically activated catholyte produced from fresh
drinking water.
Antioxidant water therapy in the form of baths or showers based on purified electrochemically
activated catholyte produced from fresh water is an effective and safe method for regulating the
REDOX status of the internal environment of the body. Antioxidant water therapies enable to restore
the body at the cellular level, normalizing the balance of oxidative and reduced chemical compounds
in the extracellular and intracellular fluids, which is a prerequisite for the correct functioning of all
fundamental vital processes of the body.
The effectiveness of this procedure is due to the fact that when a person is immersed in a bath
with catholyte, about 67 % of the skin gets into direct contact with the electrondonor liquid medium
and the negative electrostatic charge of activated water is transferred into the blood through the skin.
Taking into account that the blood flow through the skin areas which are in contact with the catholyte
is approximately 0.3 l/min and the total blood flow in the body is about 5.5 l/min, one will obtain the
following result: during a 7 minute antioxidant bath therapy, approximately 33 % (about 1.5–2 liters)
of the total circulating blood volume in the body is subjected to percutaneous electrochemically
activated catholyte treatment. Moreover, one could achieve even better results by means of combining
courses of antioxidant baths or showers with courses of antioxidant water drinking which will result
in synergistic effect.
It is important to note that only electrochemically activated water or aqueous solutions have the
necessary properties for carrying out effective antioxidant water therapies. The following experiments
have shown that the ORP value of physiological solution in sealed containers made of glass and
fluoroplastic (dielectrics), after immersing the ampoules in the cathode chamber of a working
diaphragm electrolyzer with exposure for 30 minutes, significantly changed into the negative values
zone (< 0 mV). That is, the phenomenon of a contactless electrochemical activation of the solutions
inside the sealed ampoules that do not conduct electric current was detected. The relaxation of negative
ORP values in the ampoules to an equilibrium state took around 2 hours. However, in the case of
immersion of the same sealed glass and fluoroplastic ampoules with physiological solution in non-
activated strong alkali solutions, the ORP inside the ampoules did not change. Thus, non-activated
alkaline solutions do not transfer reducing properties through non-conductive materials. Accordingly,
simple water alkalization for sanitary bath therapies, for example with baking soda, does not give the
desired effect.
Effective electron-donor water therapy in the form of baths or showers directly depends not only
on the methodology of carrying out this procedure, but also on the quality of the equipment used for
producing electrochemically activated catholyte.
The water treatment scheme in EMERALD HOME SPA Devices is based on authentic MB-11
electrochemical modules and allows for producing up to 250 l/h of cold or warm electrochemically
activated catholyte from ordinary tap water in a flow-through mode with ORP value in the range of (-
150)÷(-450) mV, while maintaining a neutral pH level in the range of 7.0÷8.5 units. Preservation of
the neutral acid-base balance of the catholyte in line with notable ORP shift towards reduction values
is an important factor for producing antioxidant water similar in ORP and pH values to biological
fluids of the body, making antioxidant water therapies in the form of baths and showers safe and
effective.
Bakhir V. M., Panicheva S. A., Prilutsky V. I., Panichev V. G. ELECTROCHEMICAL ACTIVATION: INVEN-
TIONS, SYSTEMS, TECHNOLOGY. M., 2021, ISBN 978-5-600-03153-1 - p. 400-401.
