What is the significance of water to human survival and life?

There are three main functions of water: it plays an important role in the formation of human tissues. Water in human body is collectively called body fluid, which is concentrated in cells, tissues and various pipelines, and is an important substance that constitutes cells, interstitial fluid, plasma and so on. Supplement nutrition and participate in various metabolism of the body. There are many rich minerals in drinking water, such as calcium, magnesium, iron, copper, chromium, manganese and other elements. Appropriate content of these elements is beneficial to human health. At the same time, water can also help the body digest food, absorb nutrients, eliminate waste, participate in regulating acid-base balance and body temperature in the body, and play a lubricating role among organs. The media function of traffic. As the medium for all chemical reactions in the body, water is the medium for transporting various nutrients and substances. Daily water intake and output of adults (ml/24h) Water output (ml/24h) Food 1000 Breathing evaporation 350 Drink 1200 Skin evaporation 500 Metabolic water 300 Fecal excretion 150 Kidney excretion 1500 Total 2500 Taomi water. Washing your hands with rice washing water can moisturize your skin. Rinsing your mouth with rice washing water can treat halitosis or oral ulcer. Wash the fishy vegetables with salted rice water, and then rinse with clear water to remove the fishy smell. Soak the bacon in rice for half a day to remove some salty taste. Washing bacon with rice is cleaner than washing it with water. Washing pork belly with washed rice is more energy-saving, trouble-saving, clean and economical than rubbing with salt or bone alum. Ordinary kitchen knives are washed with rice and soaked in water, which is not easy to rust. Rusty kitchen knives are easy to clean after being soaked in rice washing water for several hours. Taomi water can make flowers and trees or vegetables grow stronger. Painted furniture scrubbed with rice washing water is brighter. Wipe the new paint with rice washing water for 4 ~ 5 times to remove the odor. The function of water is inseparable from water, so people often regard water as "the water of life and longevity". Get up in the morning to rinse your mouth and brush your teeth as soon as you use it. When using water, you should first turn on the faucet and put a pot, because bacteria and rust water will stop in it after the faucet is not used overnight. Washing your face with hot water can protect your eyes. China's ancient cooking book Diet also said: Anyone who washes his eyes with hot water in the morning will not have eye diseases on weekdays. Second drink, that is, drink two cups of warm water on an empty stomach in the morning. Because blood is concentrated in the morning, people are in a state of dialysis and dehydration. At this time, drinking boiled water can quickly improve hypertonic dehydration, and at the same time, it can lavage the stomach and play a health care role. Therefore, "to be a fairy, the intestines must always be clear." It should be mentioned that after the water is boiled, it should be boiled for another two minutes to remove halogenated hydrocarbons from tap water, so that the boiled water is the best. Drinking wolfberry tea in the morning has the effects of tonifying kidney, dispersing lung, strengthening spleen and improving eyesight. Drinking tea in the afternoon can excite the central nervous system, improve thinking activities, increase blood circulation, prevent cancer and have anti-aging effects, but the consumption of tea should not exceed 10g per day. Rinse your mouth with tea after three meals Because tea is rich in alkaline substances, it has the effects of decontamination, deodorization and annoyance, and has a unique health care and disease prevention effect on oral health. Drinking a cup of boiled water half an hour before going to bed can keep normal blood circulation at night and prevent cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral thrombosis and sudden cardiac death. Three scalds, that is, washing feet before going to bed, so that the water does not overflow outside the basin after the feet are immersed. Scalding feet with water has the functions of relaxing tendons and activating collaterals, eliminating fatigue, benefiting qi and removing blood stasis, nourishing primordial energy and enhancing the body's disease resistance, so it is "washing feet in spring, strengthening yang and strengthening the body's resistance;" Wash feet in summer, remove dampness and heat; Wash feet in autumn and inject lungs and intestines; Wash feet in winter, warm the kidney and strengthen the spleen.