No homeopathetic cure. No idiotic dilutions and molecular memories bullshit. This is healing water. For real.
The key ingredient of the water, called Microcyn, are oxychlorine ions - electrically charged molecules which pierce the cell walls of free-living microbes.The water can only kill cells it can completely surround so human cells are spared because they are tightly bound together in a matrix. -BBC
For comparison here's what an early homeopathy pioneer did to water: Jenichen sat or stood stripped naked to the waist, holding the bottle in his fist in an oblique direction from left to right, and shook it in a vertical direction. The fluid, at every stroke, emitted a sound like the ringing of silver coins. He paused after every 25th potency, and the muscles of his naked arm vibrated...he was latterly able to give 8400 strokes in an hour. [From a Wikipedia reference]
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