calendar>>June 9. 2009 Juche 98
Chollima Mineral Spring Water Good for Health and Cure
Pyongyang, June 9 (KCNA) -- The mineral spring water in Chollima County, South Phyongan Province of the DPRK, has been widely known as "famous medicine".

The spring, an alkaline sulfur one discovered in the 1990s, is fresh to drink and very efficacious for health and treatment.

It contains 76.59 mg of sodium and kalium ions, 2.58 mg of magnesium ion, 38 mg of calcium ion, 127.66 mg of chlorine ion, 34 mg of carbonic acid ion, 38.6 mg of bicarbonate ion, 5 mg of sulfuric acid ion and 8.5 of pH per liter.

It is efficacious for the treatment of various kinds of inflammation such as gastritis, hepatitis, pancreatitis, nephritis, enteritis and colitis and of cholelithiasis, diabetes and adiposity.

It is specially virtue for curing hypertension, arteriosclerosis and other circulatory diseases and various skin diseases.

The demand for the spring is on the increase as days go by.

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