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Is it advisable to drink the Yin-Yang Water 20 minutes or so before eating breakfast?

I used cold mineral water and water from the tape that I have boiled. Is it also possible to use cold tape water or is it important to use two different kinds of water?

[This message has been edited by kami (edited May 30, 2005).]

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Originally posted by kami:

I used cold mineral water and hot tape water. Is it also possible to use cold tape water or is it important to use two different kinds of water?

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It is not advisable to drink hot
water from the tap since it picks up
all kinds of things from the pipe.
Someone who knows exactly about
hot tap water might add
to this thought

The best, safest, way to do it is to
measure an amount into a pot and boil
it. I stop when the bubbles start to
rise from the bottom of the pot. Then
add an equal amount of water to the
boiled water. I then pour it into a large
16 oz glass and let it cool for about
1/2 hour. I find it too hot to drink it
right away.

I don't always wait for a long period
after drinking the water before eating.
I sometimes make yin-yang water during
the day as well as in the morning.
Since Chunyi Lin sometimes adds
honey to his, I assume eating right after
is not a problem. He also says you can make
tea with the water.

Maybe someone else can chime in on this
as I might be doing it wrong myself. But
drinking hot water from the tap can be
dangerous.

Gianni

Yin-Yang water is fine, any time.

Master Lin says to use cold spring water and boil some then mix the cold and boiled in equal amounts.

I use tap water. Cold water for both halves. Drinking water from the hot water tank is never advised. I suspect it will have a higher bacterial content.

You are perfection.
Iam2

I am a bit confused..

So is it ok to use cold boiled tap water plus hot boiled tap water?

Or must we use cold spring water plus boiled spring water/tap water?

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Originally posted by cboonsan:
I am a bit confused..

So is it ok to use cold boiled tap water plus hot boiled tap water?

Or must we use cold spring water plus boiled spring water/tap water?

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Cold tap water is fine. It's the hot tap
water that creates the problem; I'm talking
about water that come from the hot tap.
You don't need special water to make
yin-yang water. Chunye Lin says that cold
tap water is fine. You can also use mineral
water if you want.

If someone knows the chemistry of the hot
tap water they might chime in. My father
told me never to drink water from the hot
tap because it contains high concentrations
of unfriendly metals.

Gianni

The water from the hot water tap and the cold water tap comes into the house by the same pipe from the city (or your well). It is not distilled water. There is material that is not necessarily good for you, BUT it is small quantities and you body can handle it very easily. If you allow it to sit around at a warm temperature (not a hot temperature eg. boiling) then some of the things in the water MAY grow and multiply to the state that there is too much bad stuff in the water for you.

I was big on the BUT and MAY. There are a lot of variability in tap water, and so a lot of variablility in the quality you get from your tap water. Some places get occaisional boil water advisories, some even have it all the time. In the western world we have more good quality drinking water than ever before in history. More people too.

Well or spring water used to be the surest way to get safe water, because the ground had performed a great deal of filtering of the water.

So cold tap water is quite fine.

Spring water is fine. Spring water from your area would probably be best because it would have qi that is in harmony with your environment.

Bottle water is often from a tap. Depending on were you live and the bottled water, you tap water may be better for you.

The water in my town is just fine. Some springs there is a little bit of a chlorine taste, but if you leave water in an open container overnight the chlorine will out-gas (meaning leave the water as a gas; hence leaving the water uncovered).

Good: Cold tap water. Boil half, then mix.

Better: Good spring water from your area. Boil half, then mix.

Best: Get Master Lin to make if for you and charge it with qi just for you.

You should drink yin-yang water while it is still warm. Unlike the black sesame tea which you can make in quantity and keep refrigerated (I assume you reheat it).

You are perfection.
Iam2

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Iam2:
[B]The water from the hot water tap and the cold water tap comes into the house by the same pipe from the city (or your well).

Although the water for both hot and cold come in the same pipe, the hot water goes through some type of heating coil. In my case it goes through the heating coil in my furnace. I personally would not drink water that has gone through my furnace heating coil, or any other heating coil. That's just me, you may have a difference preference.

Cedar