Hello doctor, I read about the ancient practice of drinking water from copper vessels. Is it really good for health? My 3 year old son has wheezing and respiratory problems. Also, once he was admitted to hospital for sepsis. He is using the Foracort inhaler twice a day and Zincovit syrup once a day. Can I boil a few tulsi leaves in water and store that water in a copper thermos flask for my son? Kindly reply.
Hello. I just read your query. Our elders and seers advise us to take water stored in a copper vessel, and scientifically it has been proven too. Copper has antibacterial, anti-viral and anti-inflammatory properties. So, you can take water stored in a copper vessel and give it to your little one. After storing water at least for 8 hours, you can consume it. According to ayurveda, this water is known as Tamra Jal, and it helps in balancing all three doshas and has many benefits. Remember one more thing that the copper is not innately utilized by our body, so too much of copper intake can be detrimental. So have some precautions like buying a copper vessel which is made of pure copper and consuming this water twice or thrice a day is sufficient. Now coming to your kid's current respiratory tract problem, rather than storing tulsi based water I would advise you another decoction which is more effective for your baby. Take two to three tulsi leaves, some ginger, a pinch of black pepper, cardamom and some amount of fennel. Boil it in water and when half water remains give it to your baby with honey twice a day. Make fresh decoction every time you use it. All these will help in curing respiratory problem soon. You can also make a fine powder of all these and can give it with honey twice a day. Give him half teaspoon of this powder, as far as decoction is concerned 5 to 10 mL is sufficient. If Tulsi leaves are fresh, then add their juice to the powder. Use this regularly for one to two weeks, and you will soon see positive results. Along with this, I suggest syrup Septilin (Himalaya) half teaspoon twice a day with lukewarm water for two weeks. It will build more immunity in your baby and help to get relief from the infection he previously had. Take some precautionary measures like if you feed him with a bottle, boil the nipple and bottle every time before use. Try to change the nipple every week or after 10 days. Try to change his bottle after one or one and a half month. I am telling you all this because he got sepsis. Try to train your little one for having liquids with the help of sipper and glasses. As frequent bottle use also leads to infections rapidly. As he is having foracort inhaler two times, give him plain water steam twice a day. No need to cover your baby. Just take him in your lap and give him steam for 5 to 10 minutes as long as he is comfortable. Steam will help him a lot. Give him healthy and homemade food. Soon he will be completely fine. Revert after a month to an ayurveda specialist online -->