CreativeHealthInstitute: History of Wheatgrass

[Guest guest]

The part referencing the Essenes is not meant as a religious

discussion, but to give a sense of the historical use of healing

grasses.

 

I also am NOT a supporter of wheatgrass kits.. It is so

ridiculously easy to grow wheatgrass- to say nothing of how

inexpensive it is. If there is interest I am glad to post again how

to do it, or you can search our archives for messages I posted in

the past on how to do it.

 

Comments?

Misty L. Trepke

http://health.

 

 

THE HISTORY OF WHEATGRASS

by KK Fowlkes

http://www.creativehealthinstitute.us/articles/historyofwheatgrass.ht

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Before we establish the wheatgrass habit, it might be good to know a

short history of this ubiquitous substance called grass. Why on

earth did people start drinking grass juice? You'd think that

people would realize that grass is for cows! Wheatgrass juice and

barleygrass juice—just a fad? Wheatgrass juice is very sweet, while

barleygrass juice is very bitter. In fact neither grass made into

juice tastes really delicious—but in fact they of all the health

foods out there, really deliver health—and fulfill all the claims

made about them!

 

During the early 1900's a man named Edmund Bordeaux Szekely

discovered an ancient biblical manuscript which he subsequently

translated. It was a remarkable discovery and Szekely was so

enthralled with the translation that he formed a society he called

the Biogenic Society to promulgate the teaching of this new (old)

way of eating. He began publishing the manuscripts in the form of

little books, which he sold very inexpensively because he felt that

the world needed the message. He called the books The Essene Gospel

of Peace. The Essenes were a very righteous people who lived near

the Dead Sea during the time of Jesus Christ. Christ actually

taught them the laws of health during that time. The main teaching

of Essene Book I is: Don't kill your food by cooking it. The main

teaching of Essene Book IV is : all grasses are good for man and

wheatgrass is the perfect food for man. These little books can be

purchased at any health food store.

 

In the 1940's a man by the name of Charles Kettering (former

Chairman of the Board of General Motors) donated money for the study

of chlorophyll. Chlorophyll was studied intensively by medical

doctors using FDA required standards i.e. double blind studies,

etc. (There are currently over 40 articles written up in medical

journals about the healing effects of chlorophyll.) These medical

doctors found that chlorophyll was a great healer and used it as

such for quite some time. The next question is…why aren't they

still using it? Answer: I am sure if drug companies knew that if

the average individual knew that the chlorophyll from their backyard

grass would heal them, then they probably wouldn't be using high

powered—high priced drugs! …and then, who could make money?

 

Sometime during the 1940's a lady by the name of Ann Wigmore

healed herself of cancer from the weeds she found in vacant lots in

Boston. (See Why Suffer by Ann Wigmore.) She began a study of

natural healing modalities—and with the help of a friend, Dr. Earp

Thomas, she found that there are 4700 varieties of grass in the

world and all are good for man. With the help of her pets, she

arrived at the conclusion that wheatgrass was the best-—or the

medicinal grass. She started an institute in Boston (Ann Wigmore

Institute) and since then has taught people from all over the world

about the grasses and the living food healing program—and helped

them get well from some very serious diseases. She has written over

35 books telling about wheatgrass and living foods.

 

Here we are in the year 2000 and many people are finding out

for themselves the great benefits of wheatgrass (liquid

chlorophyll). Since Ann Wigmore's time, there has also been

research done on the healing properties of barley grass- by a

Japanese man named Yoshihide Hagiwara.

 

Yoshihide Hagiwara was the owner of a large pharmaceutical

company in Japan. He had personally developed numerous

medications. He became extremely ill from working with drugs. He

came to the conclusion that if synthetic drugs make a person sick,

then how could they make one well?

 

He began to study Chinese medicine and found that the father of

Chinese medicine said, " It is the diet which maintains true health

and becomes the best drug. " Hippocrates, considered the father of

western medicine, said basically the same thing. Ann Wigmore

originally named her institute after Hippocrates—based on his

teaching that the body can act as its own physician when provided

with the proper tools (living organic nourishment), used in the way

nature intended—unprocessed, uncooked.

 

The truth seems to be that God originally designed the foods of

the earth in such a way that they would not only nourish his earthly

children, but would keep them at a peak of health. Our mistake

seems to be that we alter this grand design by cooking, therefore

destroying the food before we eat it.