Digestive Enzyme Therapy cure illnesses

If you are looking for new alternative medications to a lot of illnesses then this article is just right for you.

Digestive enzymes are needed in order for us to be alive. This is the first reason why we should have digestive enzyme therapy. Digestive enzymes purify our blood, cleanse the colon, maintain proper cholesterol levels and peak energy levels. Food enzymes such as digestive enzymes are not entirely new. They have already been known to exist since the time of Hippocrates. It has also been long recognized that a lot of illnesses are related to improper diet and poor nutrition. This means that the " you are what you eat" thing was already known.

Digestive enzymes naturally protect us from illnesses. This is the second reason why we should have digestive enzyme therapy. Digestive enzymes have a great effect on our entire immune function. Digestive enzymes that are contained in white blood cells such as lipase, protease, amylase, alkaline phospatase and peptidase are part of the pancreatic juices and they all increase immune function.

Digestive enzymes are used to treat various illnesses too. This is the third reason why we should have digestive enzyme therapy.

Digestive enzymes are also essential if you want to achieve and maintain healthy skin. This is the fourth reason. Digestive enzymes help improve skin, hair and nails by increasing the blood supply to the skin and body. Then better digestion also improves circulation, and circulation helps bring the right nutrients to the skin as well as clean the waste products that make skin dull and wrinkled.

And the last reason, digestive enzymes is used to treat obesity and overweight. Digestive enzymes like lipase breaks down and dissolves the fat that is stored in our bodies and transforms them into energy. Without lipase, fat accumulates and is stored in arteries, organs and capillaries.

Protease also breaks down proteins and eliminates toxins. If your body has too much toxins, your body also stores excess fat. That is why protease's function is important in losing fat.

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Anti-Aging enzyme's secret revealed

Johns Hopkins researchers have determined how a tiny molecule normally squelches the activity of an enzyme that otherwise could help yeast, worms and flies live longer.The structural secrets they found, which are described in the March 18 issue of Molecular Cell, are likely to help efforts to design molecules that increase or decrease the enzyme's normal activity. 

The idea isn't to create a fountain of youth, say the researchers, but to help treat diabetes, inflammation, cancer or other conditions in which the enzyme plays a role. 

The enzyme, called Sir2 or sirtuin, turns on or off certain proteins by removing "decorations" called acetyl groups."Some of the proteins the enzyme turns on or off are already known to be involved in disease, and new ones are being identified all the time," says Cynthia Wolberger, Ph.D., professor of biophysics and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator in Johns Hopkins' Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences. "The idea is that specifically and carefully altering the activity of sirtuins could help fix those conditions by restoring appropriate activity levels of the specific protein involved."

For example, Johns Hopkins scientist Pere Puigserver reported just last month that the human equivalent of Sir2 is intimately involved in controlling whether the liver produces sugar when food is scarce. In people with diabetes, sugar production in the liver is constant, and targeting this sirtuin might help restore control.

 One key controller of the enzyme's activity is a small, naturally occurring molecule called nicotinamide (nick-oh-TIN-ah-mid), itself a product of the enzyme's complex chemistry. Already, scientists knew that this molecule fine-tunes sirtuin's activity by reducing its ability to remove the acetyl groups from proteins.But exactly how nicotinamide interfered with sirtuin's activity was unknown. 

One idea was that there might be two places where nicotinamide could sit in the enzyme -- one spot where it's created, and another where it just blocks the enzyme from doing its job."Our structures of the protein and nicotinamide show that this is clearly not the case," says Wolberger, whose research focuses on understanding proteins' functions by determining what they look like. "Instead, nicotinamide binds in only one spot in the enzyme."Jose Avalos, then a graduate student, found the answer by determining the three-dimensional structure of the nicotinamide and sirtuin bound together. The structure literally shows the molecule sitting in a pocket of the enzyme and also reveals how its presence prevents sirtuin from doing its thing. 

Based on this picture, the researchers altered a single component of that pocket, which made the enzyme sensitive to a different molecule."Things don't usually work out so cleanly," says Wolberger. "But in this case we made a prediction based on the structure, and we were able to prove that prediction true."Wolberger and Avalos used sirtuin from bacteria to create their structures, but the human version of the enzyme responds to nicotinamide in the same way. 

Avalos's structures clearly identify which building blocks of the sirtuin protein are involved in binding nicotinamide."Understanding the interaction in such detail can help in the design of new compounds that could inhibit sirtuin's activity or increase it," says Avalos, now a postdoctoral fellow with Nobel laureate Rod MacKinnon at The Rockefeller University. "Which one you'd want to do depends on the ailment being addressed."Molecules that mimic nicotinamide and block sirtuin's activity might be useful in treating diabetes, based on Puigserver's recent discoveries. 

Or the structural clues could be used to do the opposite, to turn up sirtuin's activity, which might restart a tumor suppressor gene called p53 that is erroneously shut off in many cancers. But those are just two examples."In the last two or three years, there's been an explosion in the number of known implications of sirtuin enzymes in biology and human health," notes Avalos.

Wolberger's goal isn't developing drugs, but understanding the details of how sirtuin works and how it's controlled, in part by understanding how various inhibitors and stimulators of sirtuin activity interact with the enzyme.

 The research was funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health. Authors on the paper are Avalos, Wolberger and Katherine Bever.

(Source:Johns Hopkins Medicine)

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Wheatgrass and Overcoming Cancer - Dr. Ann Wigmore

For many years I have taken a great interest in the problem of cancer. My reasoning has been that if wheatgrass and live foods can help the most feared and uncontrollable medical problem, cancer, no questions should remain about its ability to heal, nourish, and balance the body. With twenty years of teaching cancer patients behind me, I know that—contrary to popular belief—all types of cancer can be overcome. However, my own opinion is that we will never find a "cure" for this dreaded problem because it can't be cured.

The body of the cancer patient must heal itself in the very same way any body rebounds from a cut, bruise, or common cold. Although there are drugs which seem to help by destroying this or that cancer cell, all they can do is help. The body must replace the lost cells with new cancer-free ones.

Once you understand the logic of self-healing and self- cleansing it is easy to understand how the body can reverse even a serious problem like cancer. All that is needed is sufficient will to live and fight the disease, and enough life energy in the body—a strong enough immune system.

How do you build up the immune system to overcome or prevent cancer? First, by eliminating the things that reduce your immunity: stress at home or at work, and processed and cooked foods. Once you have taken some of the pressure off your immune system in this way, you must learn how to rebuild it. Thus, your second task is to cleanse the toxic residues of stress and bad food choice from your system with a cleansing live food diet and wheatgrass.

Live foods and wheatgrass juice will begin the process of cleansing and rebuilding the immune system as long as you stay clear of the stresses and foods that create a high risk of cancer in the first place. If you do not avoid stresses, you are like a person with a broken leg who continues to walk on the leg without a cast and crutches.

You won't heal regardless of how calm you are or how well you eat. Until you get off the leg and rest it nothing will help. Similarly, if you don't take a vacation (I recommend a permanent one) from the foods that congest and clog your body, your chances of recovery will be that much poorer.While wheatgrass juice helps to build immunity, its beneficial effects range much further.

Preliminary studies have identified a number of substances in wheatgrass juice that are formidable anti-cancer agents. One of these is called abscisic acid. I first learned of abscisic acid from Eydie Mae Hunsberger, a former Hippocrates guest who used the Hippocrates Diet and wheatgrass juice to heal herself of malignant breast cancer.

As she relates in How I Conquered Cancer Naturally, her doctor took an interest in her case and researched many past studies to find the active ingredient in wheatgrass that helped make her well.
What he discovered was abscisic acid, a plant hormone known to prevent seeds from germinating until environmental conditions are just right.

In tests on laboratory animals, he found that even small amounts of abscisic acid proved to be "deadly against any form of cancer." Tumors disappeared quickly in animals given injections of abscisic acid. Eydie Mae did mention, however, that research with abscisic acid is in its infant stages and it is still too early to tell whether it will become a "cure." But as she says, "Poor eating habits cause more diseases than cancer.

We may be able to reverse cancer with abscisic acid pills, but then die from a heart attack or something else." Only sound preventive nutrition and a healthful lifestyle can save us from all illness. Eydie Mae's decision to switch from the "condemned person's diet" to wheatgrass and other live foods on the Hippocrates Diet certainly paid off for her—within one year after she was given up by the medical establishment, the cancer was in remission—and it remained that way.

Another possible anti-cancer property of wheatgrass juice, first brought to my attention in a lecture given by the well- known biochemist and researcher, Dr. Ernst Krebs, Jr., is Vitamin B17 (laetrile). In his research, Dr. Krebs extracted laetrile from apricot pits, but it is also found in whole foods and especially wheatgrass. This vitamin has shown the ability to selectively destroy cancer cells, while leaving non-cancerous ones alone. While laetrile as a cancer treatment is still hotly debated in this country, the facts speak for themselves: the modern American diet contains about four hundred times less Vitamin B17 than the diet of the natives in countries where the incidence of cancer is extremely low.
At the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine, Dr. Arthur Robinson studied the various effects of live foods, wheatgrass, and synthetic Vitamin C on cancer in laboratory mice. Skin cancer was induced in the mice through exposure to ultraviolet radiation.

The control group received the standard laboratory chow diet. Two other groups of mice were given the chow diet and different dosages of Vitamin C. Another two groups of mice received a raw foods diet restricted to apples, pears, carrots, tomatoes, sunflower seeds, bananas, and wheatgrass. One of these groups was also given one hundred grams of Vitamin C.

In a March, 1984 article entitled "Living Foods and Cancer," Dr. Robinson summarized the findings of his research as follows: "The results were spectacular. Living foods [including wheatgrass] alone decreased the incidence and severity of cancer lesions by about 75 percent.

This result was better than that of any nutritional program that was tried. It was possible to duplicate this cancer suppression with ascorbic acid [Vitamin C] only by giving doses so high as to be nearly lethal for the mice and far beyond any rational range of human consumption. In fact, ascorbic acid in the amounts usually recommended for colds and cancer doubled, increased by 100 percent, the incidence and severity of the cancer."

In my own opinion, if the group of mice receiving only wheatgrass and raw foods had been given sprouts rather than fruits and vegetables, the decrease in cancer would have been even more dramatic.

The severity of cancerous lesions in Robinson's mice was caused to vary greatly by nutritional means alone. I believe that this indicates that cancer research of the future must look to diet for the answers.

The cancer-nutrition connection is becoming more evident to researchers and physicians. Recently, the prestigious National Cancer Institute commissioned the National Academy of Sciences to study the relationship between diet and cancer. The study pointed out many carcinogenic foods and their link to cancer. You may already be aware of some of them—processed items such as luncheon meats, smoked meats, high-fat cheeses, and refined oils.

The study also found that some vegetables, especially green and yellow varieties, seem to have anti-cancer properties. Nevertheless, many of the foods singled out by the National Academy of Science, including carrots, squashes, broccoli, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, and leafy greens, are less potent in overall nutrition than wheatgrass—and none of them contain active enzymes when they are eaten cooked.

- by Dr.Ann Wigmore "The Wheatgrass Book"

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Anti-aging: Support for the youngest older generation ever!

Wheatgrass juice is the nectar of rejuvenation, the plasma of youth, the blood of all life. The elements that are missing in our body's cells,especially enzymes, vitamins, hormones, and nucleic acids can be obtained through this daily green sunlight transfusion."

    -- Rev. Viktoras Kulvinskas, Author of Survival into the Twenty First Century

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Wheatgrass For Your Animals

Cat eating wheatgrass

Household pets can nibble the grass to get roughage (absent in most prepared pet foods), so keep your wheatgrass at a safe distance.  If they are chewing on it, then you can grow the wheatgrass back a second time (lost 50% of it's value, but fine for your pets) and let them chew on that.

For you animal that may have a health issue, fleas, eye problems, hair loss, trouble walking, wounds, etc... here is what you can do:

Give them a little less than ½ an ounce (orally), twice a day, 30 minutes before you feed your animal.Use a bulb syringe or eye dropper to get it down.

Do this everyday for at least five days.Stay with it as you will then see some amazing results in a very short time! You may apply a dropper of wheatgrass juice into your pet's mouth for illness, gum or teeth problems, urinary problems or eating problems.

After you have given them the juice for the five days, then chop finely into their food for preventative, three times per week.This will help keep your animal in balance.

Wheatgrass soaked bandage for sores, can be applied right to their wounds.
Grow small amount in the house for cats to play with (this will take their attention away from your plants)

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Wheatgrass is available in juice, Powder and tablet form. What is the best?

Traditionally, Wheatgrass is known to be taken in juice form. In today’s modern life most individuals are lacking time, space, manpower and know-how of growing Wheatgrass. It is difficult to transport fresh Wheatgrass economically everyday to far off places as it has very less shelf life.
At this junction, making the availability of Wheatgrass in Powder form has proven to be very convenient and effective. It has all the advantages as follows:

• Powder is easy to transport, convenient to carry and has good shelf life.
• Powder retains all the important nutrients of fresh Wheatgras
• Powder has higher quantity of dietary fiber than fresh juice.
• Fiber is strained out while extracting juice.
• Powder is more palatable than fresh juice by all age groups
• Powder equals therapeutic efficacy as fresh Wheatgrass.
• One Tsp. Powder (approx 3g) equals to 40 g fresh Wheatgrass.
• One Tsp Powder (3 g) costs less than the cost of 40 g fresh Wheatgrass. .

Wheatgrass Powder has more advantages than tablet form as follows:

• Powder is natural whereas tablet manufacturing involves more process.
• Tablet manufacturing method might involve the use of chemical binders.
• Using 3 g powder (40 g fresh grass) a day is recommended for good results.
• One Tsp. Powder = about 3 g = 6 tablets (0.5 g each) at a time. Most people do not take this quantity of tablets and therefore may not experience satisfactory results.
• When Powder is mixed in a glass of water, the original Chlorophyll available in Wheatgrass is reformed before consumption. It mixes with saliva and is digested better thereby increasing its therapeutic value.
• Paste of Powder with milk can be applied on skin and its not possible with tablets.

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How does Wheatgrass Powder help in weight management?

Wheatgrass Powder is a natural, safe and extremely potent aid in weight loss. It works by suppressing appetite, stimulating metabolism, circulation and helps loose weight in inches and kgs. Diet has to be reduced to achieve weight loss and it may cause nutrition deficiencies.

Many people experience fatigue and craving to eat more at this stage. Wheatgrass Powder helps overcome nutrition deficiency and to avoid any side effects. For weight gain, Wheatgrass Powder helps by improving digestion, activating body cells, increasing appetite, improves skin and muscle tone and as an energy booster.

Incase of weight loss / weight gain, the intake of Wheatgrass Powder is the same but the accompanying diet is different as follows:

Weight loss- Diet should contain more of vegetables, soups, sprouts, green salads, fruits, juices, dry fruits, etc. Items such as milk, sweets, ghee, butter, rice, non-veg, alcohol, etc, should be avoided.

Weight gain – Diet should contain more of vegetables, fruits, juices, honey, milk, dry fruits, ghee, porridge, salads, brown rice, soups, Jaggery-sweetened milk at night, etc.,

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Anal Fissure Can Be Cured with Wheatgrass

by Dr. Chris Reynolds. M.B.,B.S.
The symptoms of anal fissure can be relieved by wheatgrass which, although you may not know it, has quite remarkable pain-relieving and healing properties.

You may not need to change your diet, drink gallons of water, use stool softeners or load your bowel with fibre. You may also be relieved of the pain and bleeding that can be so distressing in this condition.
Surgery, like botox injections and other expensive procedures should only be considered as a last resort.

Anal fissure - What is it?

Fig. 1

As shown in Figure 1, a fissure is a split or tear at the outer end of the anal canal wall, usually at the posterior or back side of the anus. In chronic fissures, a skin tag known as a 'sentinel pile' often overlies the fissure and can be mistaken for a painful hemorrhoid.

The power of wheatgrass healing

Fig. 2

Although it affects a different part of the body, anal fissure results from a breakdown in the anal wall very much like the split lip shown in Figure 2 which, as many of us know, can also be very painful and difficult to treat. This young male patient suffered for more than a year and received numerous treatments including antibiotics, steroids and anti-fungals that didn't work. His wound however healed in one week after only one application of wheatgrass cream. Why? Most likely because of Growth Factor activation by one or more bioactives in wheatgrass. (See final paragraph for more information)

What are the symptoms of anal fissure?

Typical symptoms may be:

• Pain, which can be severe, during and after bowel movements
• Red blood in the stool (blood on the toilet paper)
• Constipation - due to pain causing avoidance of passing stool
• Anal itchiness, burning
• Difficulty in passing urine 
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Why is there so much pain?

The area where anal fissure occurs is supplied by numerous nerve endings that are highly sensitive. Even a tiny split in the wall of the anal canal can be very painful, particularly during a bowel motion when the anal muscles are stretched.

Who else gets anal fissure?

Anal fissure is very common. It is estimated that approximately 250,000 new cases occur each year in the US alone. It can occur in newborns and right across the age spectrum to old age, and affects both sexes equally. It is most common from young adulthood to middle age. Pregnancy and childbirth can aggravate or initiate the condition.

How long does it last?

Approximately 50-60% of anal fissures will heal spontaneously. However it can recur or become chronic (sometimes lasting for years) in the other 40-50%.

How is anal fissure diagnosed?

Symptoms of pain and rectal bleeding will alert your doctor to make a simple examination of the outer end of the anal canal. If an acute fissure is present, it will look like a small tear in the posterior (the back end, near the spine) of the anus as shown in Figure 1. Chronic fissures have thickened edges and a 'sentinel pile' as mentioned earlier.
If considered necessary, particularly if bleeding is present, the doctor will arrange further investigations such as colonoscopy to exclude other causes of blood loss.

How is anal fissure treated?

My method is simple. I use a wheatgrass extract in a cream base and get the patient to apply a small amount just inside the anal opening twice daily with a cotton bud. In greater than 80 percent of cases, the symptoms disappear, usually within four to six weeks, sometimes within a few days.
Because the fissure itself is not a life-threatening condition, it is not essential to heal the fissure although most of them do heal in time. The aim should always be to rid patients of their symptoms so they can resume a normal quality of life - something that wheatgrass is very good at.

What causes anal fissure?

Doctors invoke all kinds of reasons why fissures develop including constipation, hard bowel motions, diarrhea, inflammation, reduced blood flow to the anal region, poor bowel habit and even 'spiky' foods such as peanuts. They seem to forget that many fissure patients do not have constipation, (some in fact have diarrhea) and some babies are born with fissures. It is unlikely the cause is related to trauma unless there is some direct injury to the anal wall e.g. from colonoscopy or childbirth.

More likely, the fissure occurs first and the constipation follows. In other words, constipation is an effect and an aggravating factor, not a cause of anal fissure. How do I know this?

The answer is based on simple clinical observation of numerous patients with chronic constipation. Many of them had undiagnosed chronic anal fissures that were missed because examination of the anal canal had never been performed. However, when their pain symptoms were relieved following treatment with wheatgrass, their constipation disappeared.

This suggests there must be some other process causing the fissure(s). I believe one contributing factor is auto-immunity.

What does auto-immunity mean?

Normally the immune antibodies our bodies produce act to stave off bacteria, viruses and other organisms that try to invade the body, and to kill off cancer cells that continually develop inside us. When this system goes awry, such as when the body undergoes severe or prolonged emotional or physical stress or severe illness, these antibodies can attack and damage healthy cells, tissues or organs. This is called an auto-immune reaction which can eventually cause an auto-immune condition if it continues long enough. In rheumatoid arthritis for example, joints can become severely damaged. i.e. they become red, swollen and painful and eventually lose their function.

My theory is that this is what occurs in anal fissure and possibly in other similar painful conditions such as tennis elbow and plantar fasciitis and perhaps even in the split lip shown in Figure 2. For some reason, these antibodies attack the mucous membrane on the anal wall. This breaks down and the fissure opens up. At time of passing stool, the anal muscles reflexly go into spasm and the bare nerve endings in the fissure produce a painful sensation. The pain leads to stool avoidance which can then cause constipation which aggravates the fissure and the whole process becomes cyclical.

Unless some way is found to heal the fissure, or the body repairs itself, the fissure becomes chronic. The anal verge being unable to "rest" for any length of time because of the need for bowel evacuation, the fissure remains open.
So the aim should be to fix the fissure, not the constipation. However, this has never been an easy task - until now.

How does wheatgrass work for anal fissure?

Having used wheatgrass on thousands of patients for a variety of conditions it has been strikingly obvious to me that it facilitates natural healing e.g. for wounds, burns, fractures, anal fissure etc. (See Fig. 2.) One can actually see the healing in progress for example in burns and infected wounds when the open wound re-covers with a thin film of new cells in 24-48 hours. This keeps the  exudate that contains growth factors necessary for healin - in, and the bacteria out. Often the patient's pain disappears as well. These are not phenomena one sees when the body is healing itself unaided.

It is well known that hormones produced by the body called Growth Factors are an essential and very important part of the healing process, and for reducing inflammation. It appears that wheatgrass in some way stimulates the production of these important growth factors that 'normalize' damaged tissue and facilitate rapid healing. Wheatgrass can also work very well for some auto-immune related disorders such as acne rosacea and psoriasis. In other words, wheatgrass is a potent, natural healing agent.

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36 Points About Wheatgrass

1. Wheatgrass Juice is one of the best sources of living chlorophyll available.

2. Chlorophyll is the first product of light and, therefore, contains more light energy than any other element.

3. Wheatgrass juice is a crude chlorophyll and can be taken orally and as a colon implant without toxic side effects.

4. Chlorophyll is the basis of all plant life.

5. Wheatgrass is high in oxygen like all green plants that contain chlorophyll.
The brain and all body tissues  function at an optimal level in a  highly-oxygenated environment.

6. Chlorophyll is antibacterial and can be used inside and outside the body as a healer.

7. Dr. Bernard Jensen says that it only takes minutes to digest wheatgrass juice and uses up very little body  energy.

8. Science has proven that chlorophyll arrests growth and development of unfriendly bacteria.

9. Chlorophyll (wheatgrass) rebuilds the bloodstream. Studies of various animals have shown chlorophyll to be  free of any toxic reaction.

10. The red cell count was returned to normal within 4 to 5 days of the administration of chlorophyll, even in those animals which were known to be extremely anemic or low in  red cell count.

11. Chlorophyll can be extracted from many plants, but wheatgrass is superior because it has been found to have over 100 elements needed by man. If grown in organic soil, it absorbs 92 of the known 102 minerals from the  soil.

12. Wheatgrass has what is called the grass-juice factor, which has been shown to keep herbivorous animals alive indefinitely.

13. Dr. Ann Wigmore has been helping people get well form chronic disorders for 30 years using wheatgrass.

14. Liquid chlorophyll gets into the tissues, refines them and makes them over.

15. Wheatgrass Juice is a superior detoxification agent compared to carrot juice and other fruits and vegetables.

16. Liquid chlorophyll washes drug deposits from the body.

17. Chlorophyll neutralizes toxins in the body.

18. Chlorophyll helps purify the liver.

19. Chlorophyll improves blood sugar problems.

20. Wheatgrass Juice can cure acne and even removes scars after it has been ingested for seven to eight months.  The diet must be  improved at the same time.

21. Wheatgrass juice acts as a detergent in the body and is used as a body deodorant.

22. A small amount of wheatgrass juice in the human diet can prevent tooth decay.

23. Wheatgrass juice held in the mouth for 5 minutes can eliminated toothaches.
It pulls poisons from the gums.

24. Gargle Wheatgrass Juice for a sore throat.

25. Drink Wheatgrass Juice for skin problems such as eczema or psoriasis.

26. Pyorrhea of the mouth: lay pulp of wheatgrass soaked in juice on diseased area in mouth or chew wheatgrass  spitting out the pulp.

27. By taking Wheatgrass Juice, one may feel a difference in strength, endurance, health, and spirituality, and experience a sense of well-  being.

28. Wheatgrass juice improves the digestion.

29. Wheatgrass juice is high in enzymes.

30. Wheatgrass juice is an excellent skin cleanser and can be absorbed through the skin for nutrition. Pour green  juice over your body in a tub of warm water and soak for 15 to 20 minutes. Rinse off with cold water.

31. Wheatgrass juice is great for constipation and keeping the bowels open. It is high in magnesium.

32. Dr. Birscher, a research scientist, called chlorophyll "concentrated sun power". He said, "chlorophyll increases the function of the heart,  affects the vascular system, the intestines, the uterus, and the lungs" .

33. According to Dr. Birscher, nature uses chlorophyll (wheatgrass) as a body cleanser, rebuilds, and neutralizer of toxins.

34. Wheatgrass Juice can reduce high blood pressure and enhances the capillaries.

35. Wheatgrass Juice can remove heavy metals from the body.

36. Wheatgrass juice is great for blood disorders of all kinds.

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Ann Wigmore: The Miracle In The Grass

As a child in Lithuania, Ann had seen her own grandmother’s natural methods heal wounded German and Russian soldiers during World War One, and she knew firsthand that miracles could be made to happen with ‘harmless foods’ and liquids, without resorting to drugs and surgery.

Years later, as a frail teenager in America, Ann suffered the scorn and persecution of a brutal father. When both of her ankles were shattered in a horse and wagon accident, her father gave his consent to have her feet amputated just above the ankles. Fortunately, she had just turned 18, and could reverse his decision. Her one ally in this was a compassionate uncle who carried her into the sunlight every day where she remained alone, immobilized on a long beach, until he returned from work in the evening.

At first she couldn’t move and the pain was terrible, but by reaching down beside the bench she was able to fill her stomach with ordinary grass. Her grandmother had taught her that within such grass was every nutrient required for human health. And when her uncle brought her flowers she ate those as well. “I tried to eat everything green I could find” she said, “and so through the long days I was able to obtain the kind of food which my body seemed to need: that is, both fresh from the earth and untreated with heat.” Sunshine, grasses and the instinct of a little dog who licked her wounds, as well as her own determination to heal, eventually restored her feet to health and strength.

Researching the nutritional value of grass and weeds became a central focus in Ann’s life, and eventually developed into “The Living Foods Lifestyle” and the platform of the Hippocrates program. Her deep dedication to helping others was accelerated when she discovered the powerful healing properties of wheatgrass juice- “the richest nutritional liquid known to man”

She began what her friends called “Ann’s Wheatgrass Route”, voluntarily bringing fresh wheatgrass juice to the homes of chronically ill and elderly people. She would talk to them, listen to them and try to impress upon them that “as long as the spark of life was still within the body, there was not only hope for improvement but possibly permanent relief from pain.” After weeks of wheatgrass, a fresh vegetable meal each evening, and a large dose of Ann’s encouragement, each person on her route, including sufferers of multiple sclerosis, arthritis, emphysema and ulcers, found new health, hope, strength and an interest in life that they hadn’t felt in years.

In 1956 Ann opened the Hippocrates Health Institute in Boston. Her early years had been filled with struggle and toil, yet there she worked even harder and longer than ever, uncompromising in her belief that “health is what one makes of it. It requires a mature attitude and self-discipline to rebuild failing health. Beyond these requirements, a simple and energetic diet, exercise and a healthy outlook are vital.”

Although Ann is gone, her personal experience of the miracles in the grass juices and this simple, but strong philosophy continues to be a healing blessing for humanity today.

Excerpts from WHY SUFFER, How I Overcame Illness and Pain Naturally by Ann Wigmore
Vol 17 Issue 4 page 3

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