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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