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What benefits does snow have to human health?
Snow has many benefits to human health. Compendium of Materia Medica has long recorded that snow water can detoxify and cure the plague. There is a folk prescription for treating fire burns and frostbite with snow water. Taking a bath with snow water often can not only enhance the resistance between skin and body, reduce diseases, but also promote blood circulation and enhance physical fitness. Drinking clean snow water for a long time can prolong life. This is also one of the "secrets" of the elderly who have lived in the mountains and forests for a long time. Why does snow have such strange functions? Because snow water contains less heavy water than ordinary water 1/4. Heavy water will seriously inhibit the life process of living things. It has been experimented that fish will die soon in water containing 30% ~ 50% heavy water.