Where the legend of “living water” comes from

MIM-2 is not a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, treat or alleviate disease. If you have health problems, always consult a doctor. This article is educational in nature and does not constitute medical advice.

A raven brings two jugs. The first water is sprinkled on the hero so that his body knits together. The second brings back his breath. The order never changes, and no storyteller ever bothers to explain it.

Half of Europe knows that scene. It comes back a dozen times in the Russian folk tales Alexander Afanasyev published between 1855 and 1863. In the Brothers Grimm, the same water rises from a well in the courtyard of an enchanted castle, and the prince has to be outside before the clock strikes twelve. Persian and Caucasian storytellers keep their own versions.

The formula proved far too handy to stay in the storybook. Centuries later the same two words sit on bottle labels, on filters and on devices from the industry we work in. Hence this article.

In a folk tale, water is never ordinary. You walk past the ninth mountain to reach it, you steal it from a guard, you pay with a year of your life or with plain courtesy towards a strange old man at a crossroads. The value comes from the journey. The jug is only proof that somebody made it.

Commerce picked this up for an obvious reason. Those two words carry a promise nobody has to prove, because the fairy tale proved it a thousand years earlier. Print them on a bottle and the customer finishes the story himself — including the part the seller never wrote down. Let us call it what it is: borrowing against someone else’s legend.

So you will not find that phrase in our materials. “Living water” belongs to folklore, and that is where it stays for us. A wellness manufacturer who repeats a line from a fairy tale is selling a promise he does not own.

What we do describe is our own activity, and it carries our own name: magnetostructuring. It looks like this. A vessel of water stands next to a working MIM-2 for roughly an hour. That is all. The name refers to what we do with the water, not to what is supposed to happen inside it. We attach no strict physical definition to it, and we promise no change we cannot show you.

The device itself rests on something simpler. The Earth’s magnetic field is the environment life grew up in, and a modern day spent between concrete, a car seat and a screen changes our exposure to it. MIM-2 supplements that exposure with a pulsed field whose average pulse repetition rate is about 4 and 12 Hz, with a pulse lasting some 0.2 ms and induction below 5 μT. Behind it stand more than thirty years of user observation. It is a wellness device, and that is how we describe it.

In the tale, the water was a reward for the journey. Here it is water. If an evening ritual is worth anything, it is worth it through repetition. Through coming back to the same small act at the same hour.

MIM-2 is not a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, treat or alleviate disease. If you have health problems, always consult a doctor. This article is educational in nature and does not constitute medical advice.

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MIM-2 jest urządzeniem wellness i nie jest wyrobem medycznym w rozumieniu Rozporządzenia (UE) 2017/745 (MDR). Nie jest przeznaczony do diagnozowania, leczenia, monitorowania ani łagodzenia chorób. W przypadku problemów zdrowotnych skonsultuj się z lekarzem.