Observation of the predictable and main actions on the human body of Fontepatri water when drunk leads lo a positive assessment of the water, which is defined as “pleasant and very well tolerated”, since test carried on fasting subjects required to drink a litre of water in twenty minutes, “did not cause sickness, regurgitation, a sense of epigastric discomfort or any other disturbance.”
The digestive action of Fontepatri water administered during meals was expressed as an increase in gastric secretion, which “mainly involved the secretion of acid”.
This led to easier digestion, more rapid gastric emptying and a slight increase in appetite reported by patients undergoing mineral water cure.
The stimulation of acid secretion is particularly therapeutic in dyspeptic subjects with a picture of hypo secretive dyspepsia, who reported a greater or lesser improvement in their subjective disturbances following 15 days’ treatment.
The diuretic action of the water under study was tested in a group of eight healthy fasting subjects by administering 600 ml of water over twenty minutes.
The volume of urine produced was ‘~s1ight1y higher” than the volume produced after drinking an identical volume of spring water.
The diuretic action manifested itself as both liquid and solid dieresis (elimination of uric acid and urea). The urine increment in the latter two products of metabolism - uric acid and urea - eliminates these compounds from the blood.
A greater decrease in blood uric acid after 12 days of treatment with Fontepatri water was achieved in subjects with a higher initial level of uric acid in the blood.
These tests show that Fontepatri water is indicated for hypo hydrochloric dyspepsia, hyperuricaemia, infections of the urinary tract and uric nephrolithiasis.
The main properties of Sorgente Fontepatri water can be summarised as follows: “may have a diuretic effect and stimulate digestion”.