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THE HISTORY OF WHEATGRASS
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Author: KK Fowlkes
Topic: Health
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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.
About the author:
Long time raw foodist, wheatgrass drinker and vegan! Wheatgrass
grower. Visit our site at for more information www.wheatgrasskits.com
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