F. Batmanghelidj, M.D
Author of "Your Body's Many
Cries for Water"
Dr. Batmanghelidj
(Batman-ge-lij) was born in 1931 in Tehran, Iran.
In 1946, only months after the Second World War, he was sent to an exclusive
secondary school in Edinburgh,
Scotland.
Despite very hard competition from the returning servicemen, he entered St.
Mary's Hospital Medical School of London University as a second year student in
1951. Upon completion of his studies, he was given the privilege of being
selected as a house doctor in his own medical school.
Before the revolution of 1979, he was engaged in the completion of a family
charity medical center in Iran.
At that time, the revolutionary government of Iran decided to imprison the doctor
and confiscate all his personal and family assets. To do so, they leveled all
types of accusations against him, and prepared to execute him. However, once
the guards realized he was useful as a doctor among the prisoners, they delayed
his execution.
One late night he treated a prisoner with peptic ulcer disease with only water.
Within eight minutes, the pain disappeared, and, as a result, a new era in the
advancement of medical science was born.
For the next 25 months, he became completely engrossed in clinical research
showing the medicinal values of water in stress reduction, and treatment of
stress-related disease conditions in the prison. When his trial came, he faced
32 fictitious indictments carrying the death penalty. As his final defense, he
presented the judge with an article on the water treatment. His life was spared
so that he could continue his research.
That same article was published in the Iranian Medical Council Journal in 1982,
and sent to London, where it was translated, and
then sent to the United
States where it was printed in the Journal
of Clinical Gastroenterology in June of 1983. Dr. Batmanhelidj's results have subsequently been published and
presented throughout the world.
He was released from prison in June of 1982, and escaped from Iran. He came
to the United States,
and from here he has conducted further research and introduced his discovery to
scientists and researchers throughout the world.
Write Dr. F. Batmanghelidj at [email protected] or visit his web site.
