“The best way to take alterative teas is to drink one glass of water, then strong, bitter tea, then another glass of water.”

“The pH of water can range from about 3 in peat swamps to very alkaline conditions of about 9 in lakes. Naturally acidic water may result from dissolved organic acids, as is the case in a peat swamp, or from sulfur deposits. Alkaline waters usually result from mineral deposits.”

“The molecules of a substance have an attraction for one another, and also may feel an attractions for molecules of other substances, if those others are near enough as molecules know distances. At the surface where a liquid touches a solid, the attractions of molecules of the liquid for the rest of the liquid, in one direction away from the contact surface, are in competition with the attractions in the other direction of the liquid molecules near the contact surface toward the mass of the solid. Usually the latter force is the stronger, and the liquid tends to climb and spread itself out on the surface of the solid, or ‘wets’ the solid. The opposite case is possible, as witness the action of mercury; small portions of liquid mercury roll themselves up into little balls when lying on a surface of a solid, because mercury has a higher ‘surface tension’ than almost any solid. The ‘wetness’ of a liquid is the reciprocal function of the surface tension. Hot water is wetter than cold water, because the surface tension is less; and oils are much wetter than water, usually, for a oil film will displace a water film on a metal if it gets a chance to do so.”