HEALTH
The recognition of Acqua San Carlo’s goodness for the health and wellbeing of the body and the start of its use for therapeutic purposes are lost in the darkness of the centuries, amidst tales handed down orally and legends about the Apuan Ligures. Think of the case of the Bishop of Milan Carlo Borromeo, who is said to have successfully followed a hydropinic cure for arthritis in 1500, drawing important benefits from it.
For the first studies on San Carlo water, we have to go back to the early 20th century when Dr Nicola Zonder recognized its virtues and therapeutic properties. The doctor, from a Swiss family, was born and trained in Massa, graduating in Medicine and Surgery in Florence in 1898 where he stayed for four years. He moved to Paris to specialize in psychiatry and then moved to Genoa. In 1904, he returned to his hometown as superintendent to public health and from that moment he began his in-depth studies of San Carlo water, which he described as ‘an extraordinary water’. He was the first to open a radiology
cabinet and in the treatment of certain patients, he observed that the continued use of mountain water achieved benefits that were not achieved with ordinary drinking water.
He began to take samples of all the mountain springs in the Massa area and his attention focused on the San Carlo Spring, which he judged superior to the others and well situated in terms of landscape.
His therapeutic experiments using San Carlo water obtained important results that were presented by Dr. Zonder himself at the National Congress of Hydrology held in May 1932 in Montecatini and Viareggio. Interest in this particular water was not long in coming and many doctors referred patients suffering from diseases of the urinary system to Dr. Zonder. With a ministerial decree of 13-4-1931, Zonder was granted the concession to exploit the San Carlo Spring, and in the same year he established the primitive thermal spa for hydropinic cures. Dr. Zonder died in the hospital in Carrara at the age of 72 on 24th February 1945.
Acqua San Carlo 1931: Sip Wellbeing
ACQUA SAN CARLO AND HEALTH
It is thanks to Dr Zonder’s studies, his perseverance and his love for Massa that San Carlo exists. And today, the research he began continues and finds confirmation through the studies by the University of Pisa, coordinated by Professor Luca Antonioli and his team of researchers, which have highlighted in particular the anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory properties of Acqua San Carlo 1931.
San Carlo Water is a histophilic water, that is with a peculiar chemical-physical composition that gives it an effective detoxifying action; drunk constantly, it helps to purify and regenerate our organism, contributing to counteracting inflammatory processes and reducing levels of oxidative stress, conditions predisposing to a series of chronic pathologies.
In this regard, the study carried out by Professor Antonioli in the Pharmacology laboratory of the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine at the University of Pisa, showed that the intake of Acqua San Carlo 1931, precisely because of its anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, improved vascular reactivity, which is impaired especially in elderly subjects, through a marked reduction in vascular oxidative stress with a consequent improvement in endothelium-dependent vasodilating function.
Hydropinic cures in the San Carlo Park may represent the beginning of a preventive and curative path.
In any case, thanks to its physical-chemical characteristics, bacteriological purity and lightness, Acqua San Carlo Dr Zonder is suitable for people of all ages and for the preparation of food for infants.
It is also recommended in all diuretic cures, for urological and urinary system diseases.