Wheat Grass: From The Soil to Your Soul

The old adage that "the grass is greener on the other side," generally bespeaks of something better. When we look at grass in a different light and examine it carefully we indeed discover something extraordinary. It is more valuable than gold because no amount of money can buy you what it can give and restore – GOOD HEALTH.

The idea of obtaining health from grass is probably a foreign concept to most people. Grass is something we lay on when we’re at a picnic; it is what we diligently cut in the summer time, what we play golf on and feed to horses, in the form of hay. However, we seem to be the only animals in the animal kingdom unaware, on an instinctive basis, of its medicinal properties.

If you are a pet owner, you are already familiar with what dogs and cats do when they get sick. THEY EAT GRASS! Nature had endowed them with the instinctual knowledge that grass is medicine. Animals that live on a high chlorophyll diet, such as the deer, hippopotamus, elephant, steer and horse each live strong, healthy and vital lives and are prone to only a few occasional diseases rather than the myriad that plague mankind.

The use of grass to fight dis-ease has not gone totally without human recognition; there is even a biblical reference. The Book of Daniel, 4^th chapter verses 31 and 32, talks of King Nebuchadnezzar who lost his mental and physical well being. He was told by God to go out into the fields and "EAT GRASS AS DO THE OXEN." The king followed this advice and in time regained his sanity, his health and his throne.

Unless it is brought to our attention, few of us realize that grass is part of the CREATION STORY. In those first seven days, God was creating environmental essentials for the maintenance of life on earth. In the Book of Genesis, 1^st chapter verse 11, God said "LET THE EARTH BRING FORTH GRASS." It is right up there with light and darkness, heaven and earth and the firmament. Grass was created before herbs, trees, animals or man. It is probably no accident that two-thirds of our planet is covered by grass. Along with water and air it is all we need to stay alive.

The knowledge of health from grass has been around for a long time. Both the Ancient Egyptians and the Chinese knew that grass was a powerful blood tonic. Scientific investigation that began back in the 1930’s brought renewed interest in cereal grasses such as wheat grass. At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. George Kohler studied the difference in the nutrition value of cow’s milk produced at different seasons of the year. He found that the highest nutritional value came from milk produced during the summer months when grazing cows consumed grass.

In 1940, Dr. Kohler, along with Schnabel and Graham reported that cereal grasses contained a variety of high level and important vitamins, minerals and proteins. Years later, Dr. Hagiwara of Japan added enzymes as previously overlooked benefits of cereal grasses. And finally in 1979 Dr. Chiu-Nan Lai, of the University of Texas, pre-sented evidence that wheat grass contains anti-cancer properties.

It was the late Dr. Ann Wigmore who really popularized the use of wheat grass. She grew up against the backdrop of World War I and watched her grandmother in native Lithuania treat injured soldiers with grass poultices. She cured herself of gangrene while still in her teens and later in life again turned to wheat grass as her health failed due to the consumption of the Standard American Diet. (SAD).

Dr. Ann Discovered a revolutionary way of juicing wheat grass. Previously it was only available from pharmacies in a dehydrated form. Wheat grass juice led to popular demand by mainstream America. Soon people began to ask for it in juice bars, health spas and living foods centers across this land. She also taught people how to grow it for pennies in the comfort of their own homes. Her Living Foods Lifestyle is now practiced at numerous health retreats throughout the world.