Water With Healing Power

ALTHOUGH there is no scientific evidence that water from a hill in Jalan Baru Selayang-Ulu Yam, about 10km from the Batu Dam in Selangor, contains minerals and has curative properties, people are making a beeline to the place with bottles and plastic containers to collect the so-called healing water.
Many people are seen almost daily squatting or sitting next to six PVC pipes on the side of the road, causing a traffic jam, especially on weekends.
Some come with bottles, plastic containers and mineral water bottles to collect what many swear is miracle water, which can cure sickness and restore health.
Fresh from the hill: Kuaishah washing fouryear- old daughter Najwa Yusseri’s face with the water while Nabila Yusseri looks on.
Regulars visitors to this natural spring claim that the water that trickles from the pipe has got more health giving nutrients and minerals and tastes better than the usual pipe water that has chlorine.
Stories of many sick people restored to health by drinking the water has spread by word of mouth.
Those who drink the water have claimed that it feels much more fresh, without the chlorine taste of the pipe water.
Some people also mentioned that many with diabetes, backaches, gout and other chronic diseases have been healed.
Housewife Nor Mazila Uzain, 32, who lives in Batang Kali, said she also collected the water after learning about the miracle liquid.
“Almost everyone I had talked to here said that this water has healing power and I want to experience it for myself. That’s why I collected all the empty mineral water bottles and containers in my house and brought it here to fill it up and will try it,’’ Mazila said.
Contractor Chai Nyuk Choo, 59, said he had been visiting the site for the last four years and stopped by to fill his water containers about three to four times a week on his way home from work.
Waiting patiently: Nor Mazila collecting the water in containers.
“I stay in Ulu Yam and have to pass this place every day. After I drank this water without boiling it, my backache is lessened. I also feel much fresher compared with four years ago.
“I think it is the nutrients and minerals in the water and it is god’s gift to the people,’’ he said.
Housewife Suhana Shariff, 33, has been taking this water for her husband for the past one year and has heard many stories of people having lesser pain and being cured after drinking the water.
“Many of us squat and sit while queuing up to collect the water. Those who are here told me of people with high blood pressure, gout and diabetes being cured.
“It seems that many people believe this is miracle water. The water is cold and fresh as well as even more clear that tap water,’’ she said.
Kuaishah Ku Aziz, 40, has been collecting the water for six years for her 60-year-old mother Mah Yahaya, who is suffering from joint pains.
“After my mother drank the water, her joints pains were gone. The water is clean, fresh and tastes better than mineral water,” she said.
“Now, my whole family cannot drink tap water and come here about twice a week to collect the water.
“I also use this water for drinking and cooking. When I drink, it goes down smoothly in the throat and there is no contamination from this water,” Kuaishah said.
“A person from a laboratory tested the water and told me that it contains a lot of minerals,’’ said Kuaishah, who stays in Bukit Beruntung.