Chlorophyll - Healer or Humbug??

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JoAnn Guest

Feb 06, 2005 20:20 PST

by KK Fowlkes

http://www.wheatgrasskits.com/issue1.htm

 

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.

 

 

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Post subject: 'Wheatgrass at Work'

- Dr Chris Reynolds

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March 31, 2004

 

This Month: Chlorophyll - Healer or Humbug?

 

Chlorophyll - green food for thought

 

Hello to everyone from a delightful early autumn in Melbourne. Sunny,

crisp, cool days and browning of leaves as chlorophyll gently departs to

take a rest until next spring. What about that green stuff we hear so

much about? Well it's a photosynthetic pigment that absorbs red and

blue-violet light thereby reflecting green light so plants, including

wheatgrass and other cereals can display their characteristic green

colour.

 

The fresh juice squeezed from wheatgrass has been called by some,

" liquid sunlight " . Since around 1940, this sunlight has been attributed

with a plethora of healing powers and properties, many of which I can

vouch for and have personally observed using my wheatgrass extract.

Take any book about wheatgrass or the cereal grasses (there are many),

and chlorophyll invariably takes pride of place at the head of the

healing team. One such book claims therapeutic effectiveness for

sinusitis, osteomyelitis, pyorrhea, peritonitis, gastric ulcers, anemia,

arteriosclerosis and depression.

 

And then there is the oft quoted American Journal of Surgery (1940)

article that recorded 1,200 cases ranging from deep internal infections

such as brain abscess, peritonitis and skin disorders had been treated

with chlorophyll and were 'discharged as cured'.

 

Ann Wigmore (1909-94), the lay healer who led the wheatgrass juicing

craze back in the 40's, even resorted to using wheatgrass enemas as a

means of cleansing the body and her followers pursue the same

" treatment " to this day.

 

She also claimed cures for almost everything including cancer. In 1988,

the Massachusetts Attorney General sued her for claiming that her

" energy enzyme soup " could cure AIDS. She had earlier received a rap

over the knuckles for claiming that fresh wheatgrass juice could reduce

or eliminate the need for insulin in diabetics, and could obviate the

need for routine immunization in children.

 

However, this article

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/may99/927236924.Bc.r.html

 

shows that Ann Wigmore's " soup " may well have been a valid therapy or

palliative for some types of cancer. To quote: " the presence of

chlorophyll in the human diet has been shown to have beneficial effects,

specifically because it is not absorbed.

 

Experiments using Chlorophyllin (CHL), a solubilized form of

chlorophyll, have demonstrated that chlorophyll can help to prevent

liver and colon cancers by binding carcinogens commonly associated with

these cancers and preventing their absorption by the intestines.

 

So, eating foods containing a lot chlorophyll should be part of a

healthy diet, but not because the chlorophyll somehow alleviates anemia.

 

 

In that chlorophyll, although not absorbed through the gut wall, can

prevent some carcinogens entering the systemic circulation. "

 

There has been substantial scientific research into wheatgrass and other

cereal grasses since the 1930s. Most if not all them have been

comprehensively analysed, and of all the numerous components detected,

chlorophyll led the therapeutic field.

 

The magic molecule was an overnight success, appearing in everything

from toothpaste to toilet paper. It became widely known as a miracle

healing agent, a phenomenon that seemed to the layman like green magic

and from one molecule, a huge industry developed. Yet, as shown in the

above article, and another by messrs W.R. Bidlack and M.S. Meskin in

" Nutritional quackery: selling health misinformation, " Calif Pharmacist

1989;36:(:34+ , chlorophyll is not absorbed! That is, not through the

gut wall and, it follows, much less likely through the skin. It

therefore can not be chlorophyll that brings about the healing processes

I describe on my website. Besides, the wheatgrass extract I use contains

barely detectable levels of chlorophyll, and that which remains would

have very little if any therapeutic value.

So I firmly believe that chlorophyll has very little to do with healing.

After all, how could my extract be as effective as the dark green,

chlorophyll-rich juice from wheatgrass sprouts?

 

Well, based on numerous clinical observations, I can assure you it is

every bit as effective. Why?

Well, I believe it is because of the grass juice factor. This appears to

be a very resilient molecule or group of molecules that is known to

exist in many green plants including wheatgrass.

 

It is a powerful, effective healing agent that somehow stimulates the

immune system both topically and systemically. In other words, whereas

chlorophyll degenerates after juicing and is not absorbed, the grass

juice factor is both absorbed and retains its stability for years. In

other words, although it seems obvious to the chlorophyll healing

proponents, I believe they have got it wrong for the following reason.

 

Grass juice factor without chlorophyll will work well as a healing

agent. However, because the two substances are inseparable except by

degradation of chlorophyll, it is not possible to have chlorophyll

without the grass juice factor also being present. i.e. the factor is

always there.

 

Therefore it is the grass juice factor that does the healing.

I don't expect to receive a lot of support from the other side of the

green fence for this concept. But does it matter? Not really.

 

Wheatgrass works whatever anyone says about it!

 

All the best until next time.

 

Dr. Chris Reynolds.

Melbourne, Australia.

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.wheatgrassprofessional.info

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