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I’ve been using wheatgrass for three years now.  It still continues to amaze me. I have taken breaks from it just to see what would happen.  And I go back to it time after time.

Since it has passed the test of time, I’m going to include some surprising information on this re-emerging health tool.

In wheatgrass juice vs. barley juice, wheatgrass is my favorite.  It tastes sweet and believe it or not, actually tastes like sweet cream from a cow to me!  Not every day, but quite often it does.  Barley grass tastes more bitter, and can hit the spot sometimes, but wheatgrass is a regular staple.  I usually take 1 or 2 days off a week from drinking it.  This allows the body a break.  We don’t want the body to adapt and become used to the wheatgrass.  Thus it keeps working at full capacity and we get all the great benefits, like more energy, faster recovery from a work out, faster wound healing, better emotional and mental outlook, etc.

In the early 1900′s a man named Edmund Bordeaux Szekely published a booklet called the Essene Gospel of Peace. The Essene’s lived near the Dead Sea during the time of Jesus Christ.  Jesus was said to have taught them the laws of health.  The first law amounted to : don’t ruin or kill your food by cooking it.  Essene Book IV told of grasses.  All grasses were good, with wheatgrass being the perfect food for man.

In the 1940′s Charles Kettering was an influential man (Chairman of the Board for General Motors), He donated money for the study of chlorophyll. Chlorophyll was studied extensively according to FDA standards (double blind, etc.) with over 40 articles being produced.  All of these published in medical journals agreed upon the healing effects of chlorophyll.

In the 1950′s, antibiotics were produced.  I say produced, because they are a man-made product.  There are things in Nature that have an antibiotic effect, but don’t have the nasty side effects that man-made antibiotics do.  Why didn’t we stay within the bounds of Nature’s design?  Well, we were looking for a magic pill.  And if it provided jobs for scientists and researchers that was good, and if we could charge a high price tag, that was good too.  And if we could let people get sick, and then charge them to get better, well that would be good for the economy too, wouldn’t it?  We sold out for money and for a quick fix.  The higher ups wanted the money, the everyday common person wanted the quick fix. And everyone wanted an end to the polio sickness that was spreading across the land. We made great strides in the lab, but forgot we weren’t perfect, and that our creations weren’t perfect either.  They were flawed because they were outside the laws of Nature.  It was like throwing a monkey wrench into the wheel of a bicycle.

If we would have used our smarts to improve within the bounds of Nature, what an accomplishment that would have been!  In the 1940′s, Ann Wigmore did just that.  In her 50′s, a common woman used her grandmother’s knowledge to heal from cancer and achieve outstanding health.  Her diet sounds very much like the Essene teachings.  With the help of Dr. Earp Thomas, they found 4700 different varieties of grass in the world.  All of them were good for man.  Wheatgrass they discovered was the most medicinal and healing.  She started a healing Institute in Boston and authored over 35 books in her lifetime.

A Japanese man named Yoshihide Hagiwara owned a large pharmaceutical company in Japan. He became ill from working with all the drugs.  As he questioned this, he went back to the basics. To diet, and not overloading the body with toxins.  He studied Chinese medicine and realized it was diet that controls the health of the body.  He did extensive work on barley grass that complements Ann Wigmore and Dr. Earp Thomas. In Western medicine Hippocrates stated that the body will act as its own physician if we can provide it with the proper tools.  There is no substitute for DIET.  Fresh, organic food, unprocessed, uncooked provided by Nature, as she provides for millions upon millions of other living animals and organisms in this world.

The new ways are leading us back to the old ways.  The cycle has come around again.  Let’s see if we can do it right this time!