Respectful Insolence   It’s the essence of life. Our bodies are
mostly made up of it, and we can’t live without it for very
long. Our cells both contain it and are bathed in it. The
enzymatic reactions necessary for life require an aqueous
solution to work. Don’t think these facts have escaped the woo-
meisters, either. Water woo is a a long time favorite of woo-
meisters everywhere. Indeed, it began with the “water cure”
favored by the ancient Greeks and Romans, who could be forgiven
for coming up with it, given that they had very little idea of
how human physiology actually worked and at the very least it
felt good to bathe in water even if it didn’t really cure
tuberculosis. To the ancient Greeks water had an Expulsive
Virtue and was able wash wastes and impurities from the body and
dissolve and soften all plethoras, thickenings, hardenings and
accretions if given enough time. About two millennia later, an
imaginative man named Samuel Hahnemann came up with the ultimate
water woo, homeopathy, a “discipline”