More Info About the "Magic Jugs"

Prefatory note: the Magic Jug technology is proprietary and no further details past those disclosed below are available. Do not contact me seeking any further information about the Magic Jug technology; such inquiries are unwelcome and will not be answered. The only possible exception to this rule is if you wish to purchase a commercial license for use of the technology (the licensing fee would likely be an amount above $250,000 USD), and in that case, inquiries from sincere interested commercial parties (who can demonstrate the requisite financial resources) will be referred to the original inventor/developer (who is a colleague) if he should grant permission to be contacted by the inquiring party; he has refused to allow the last three parties who inquired to contact him, so his permission for contact may well not be granted. Again, beyond the single exception listed above, please do NOT contact me asking for any further details on the Magic Jug technology.

On several other pages on this website, I have mentioned a proprietary technology under development here and elsewhere which I call "the magic jugs", which produce reduced ("ionized" antioxidant) water; the technology was originally developed by one of my colleagues. I have some of these proprietary and developmental "Magic Jugs" in my laboratory and in my kitchen. These glass jugs use no electricity at all, and employ no complicated electrical, electronic or mechanical technologies. The magic jugs which I have in use here, although they could be constructed in almost any size, happen to be 1/2 gallon amber glass jugs. There is a small amount (from 0.75 ounce to 6 ounces) of a proprietary special active material on the bottom of each jug. The user (in this case, myself) fills the jug with water, and adds a tiny amount of a cheap food-grade chemical -- an accelerator -- which helps to speed up the reducing (i.e., antioxidative) process. Over the next 24 hours or so, the active material reacts with the water, and creates reduced water, aka RW. With the right combination of active material and accelerator, the ORP of the water may reach as low as -500 mv. within 24 hours and -800 mv. within several days of startup. A user may then simply pour water from the jug as needed to fill a glass or mug, topping off the jug with tap water (chlorinated water NOT acceptable) as the water level drops below the 75% full point. After topping off, the water in the jug quickly returns to the strongly reduced region (i.e., exhibiting a strongly negative ORP), and water may be decanted from the jug as needed, each day, for many months or years, with only occasional replenishment of the active material. My informal tests of reducing (antioxidant) power indicate that the antioxidant (reducing) activity of the water is as great as that of ERW with the same ORP as produced by a good consumer-type bulk water ionizer such as the Super Oxide Labo. I have created versions of the magic jug which produce water with an ORP as low as -800 mv.; most versions produce water with an ORP in the range of -250 to -430 mv.

The magic jug technology is proprietary, and is the sole intellectual property of a colleague who does not choose to allow commercialization of the process at this time. He does not wish to be contacted regarding this technology at this time, and no further information is available from me on this technology. However, if you wish to play with some rather similar technologies, most of which employ special "antioxidative ceramics" (aka "antioxidant ceramics" or "reducing ceramics") produced in Japan, China and Korea, you may wish to check out any of the possibilities listed below, and play with them; some claim to lower the ORP of water in which they are immersed by anywhere from 50 mv. to 400 mv.:

while many of the early-day ceramic "laundry balls" -- claimed by their marketers to contain special ceramic pellets which changed the ionization and ORP of water, seem to have been frauds -- some of the laundry balls produced and marketed in the years after 1998 do seem to exhibit the claimed reduction in ORP when immersed in water. You may wish to play with some of these products and the small ceramic pellets or balls contained in them. Many of the small ceramic balls employed in these laundry balls are not rated as suitable for contact with potable water.
many industrial ceramics vendors in Japan, China and Korea are now marketing small ceramic balls or pellets which they call antioxidative ceramics, and they claim that a handful of these ceramic balls, when immersed in a half liter of water, will reduce the ORP significantly. From what several of these Asian vendors have told me, it appears that they first started producing specialty ceramics with reducing (i.e., antioxidative) effects upon water in the early 1990s, but only for use in industrial and commercial settings (versus consumer applications) to produce deoxidized (aka reduced) water, and when they noticed the growing consumer interest in "active hydrogen" water in the late 1990s, they decided to produce versions of their ceramics which were rated for contact with potable water for use in consumer water-treatment products. Most of these reducing ceramics seem to employ powdered forms of several gemstones, including tourmaline and jade, and sometimes some powdered metals (calcium, sodium, etc.) incorporated in the ceramic matrix as well. I have imported samples of a number of these small ceramic shapes for testing in my lab over the years, and I might caution you at this point that many of these reducing ceramic products, while they do produce a small drop in ORP of water in which they are immersed, do not usually seem to produce an ORP drop of more than 50 to 100 mv. at most. Further, my testing has revealed that many of these small ceramic balls and pellets contain various slow-release sulfur compounds as preservatives when employed in contact with water. The manufacturers do not usually disclose the presence of these slow-release sulfur compounds, and it was only by persistent questioning of some Asian vendors, once I had detected the sulfur compounds in my lab tests, that they admitted that they intentionally add the sulfur compounds to help reduce overgrowth of undesirable microbes when these ceramic balls are incorporated in water filters.
a number of Asian companies producing products for the consumer market offer various plastic-shelled "water sticks", which, when immersed in a bottle of spring water or in a pitcher of water, will lower the ORP of the water. The plastic-shelled sticks, of course, contain small ceramic balls or pellets which exhibit reducing properties, much as described above. These water sticks are usually marketed as "active hydrogen" or "hydrogen-rich" water sticks, and the vendors claim that they will reduce the ORP of a one-half liter bottle of spring water by anywhere from 50 mv to 400 mv over a period of 12 to 24 hours after the immersible stick has been placed in contact with the water. These sticks seem to sell for anywhere form $25 USD to $120 USD per stick, and, once placed in use, the sticks seem to exhibit a useful effective lifetime ranging from one month to six months, after which the stick must be discarded as it will have lost most of its ability to reduce the ORP of water, and a new stick must be put into service at that time. The actual brand names for these sticks seem to change with great regularity, but a few of the brand names under which these sticks have been marketed as consumer products are: "Hydrogen Rich Water Sticks", "Akaline Water Stick", "Active Hydrogen Water Stick", "Rejuvenator Alkaline Water Stick", "Balance Water Stick", "Hydrogen Rich Water Model H-01" and "Active Hydrogen Water Generator H-01". I have offered links where possible in the preceding list, but please be advised that the product names, as well as the URLs, shift regularly, and thus these links may become unusable as time passes!
Some ceramics producers in Japan which produce syntropic antioxidative microbial (SAM) ceramics (if you need to know what SAM and SAM ceramics are, please see my SAM website) which are claimed by their vendors to exhibit strong reducing powers when immersed in water. Some, but not all, of these SAM ceramics with the claimed reducing powers are marketed at times in the Western world by various vendors. My own lab tests (as well as numerous reports received from other researchers and form consumers who had purchased these ceramics) in 2003, 2004 and 2005 have shown that a number of the syntropic antioxidative microbial (SAM) ceramics which had been claimed by the Japanese vendors to exhibit strong reducing properties (i.e., on the order of 200 to 500 mv. reduction in ORP) failed to drop the ORP more than 50 to 90 mv when placed in water, even when employed at far higher ceramics/water volume ratios (i.e, using a greater mass of ceramics than normal) than suggested by the vendor. Due to lack of availability in the Western world, there were at least two SAM ceramics which are claimed to also exhibit strong reducing effects which I was unable to test, and thus, there is, of course, some possibility that one or more of those SAM ceramics may actually exhibit strong reducing properties when immersed in water.
Please note that producers, distributors and vendors, and also brand names, for the Asian-produced reducing ceramic technologies mentioned in the bulleted items in this list vary across time. The availability of these products in the Western world also varies across time. Please note also that some of the products, such as the small "antioxidative" ceramic balls, are not produced as consumer items, but rather are produced for bulk sale to manufacturers of consumer products, and thus, if you wish to play with such products, you will often need to purchase the ceramics balls in bulk and import them from the vendor. Please, unless you are a consulting client, do not contact me for further information on these products or their producers or vendors.

Much as noted in the prefatory note above, the Magic Jug technology is proprietary and no further details past those disclosed above are available. Do not contact me seeking any further information about the Magic Jug technology; such inquiries are unwelcome and will not be answered. The only possible exception to this rule is if you wish to purchase a commercial license for use of the technology (the licensing fee would likely be an amount above $250,000 USD), and in that case, inquiries from sincere interested commercial parties (who demonstrate the requisite financial resources) will be referred to the original inventor/developer (who is a colleague) if he should grant permission to be contacted by the inquiring party; he has refused to allow the last three parties who inquired to contact him, so his permission for contact may well not be granted. Again, beyond the single exception listed above, please do NOT contact me asking for any further details on the Magic Jug technology.

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