| "When you are green inside, you are clean inside", | | | | of the liver and kidney, kidney stones, and it has also |
| holds a lot of truth. This missing element in many | | | | been shown to be an excellent topical for infections |
| people's lives would cause all vegetation to die, and | | | | and burns! Chlorophyll contains properties that break |
| subsequently, all animals and man. Without chlorophyll, | | | | down carbon dioxide, and release oxygen, which kills |
| plants would not be able to take nutrition from the sun, | | | | bacteria. It has even been used in deep surgical |
| because the process of photosynthesis would not go | | | | wounds! Its absence of toxicity, and promotion of |
| on. In this article I will explain the benefits of chlorophyll, | | | | repair tissue/skin, and soothing qualities makes it a |
| and why raw foods are the best source for this | | | | miracle antiseptic, and it is my belief that if it could be |
| nutrient. But first, let me review, for those having | | | | patented, it would be, along with the air we breathe. |
| trouble remembering what chlorophyll is. | | | | (Thank goodness that's not so!) |
| Chlorophyll is the green pigment found in plants, that | | | | The raw foods that contain chlorophyll are: green leafy |
| enables them to take nutrition from the air, sun, and | | | | vegetables of all kinds, green olives, romaine lettuce, |
| water, and make them "living", raw foods. This green | | | | sea vegetables, broccoli, green peas, leeks, bell |
| pigment covers up any carotene pigment in the plant. | | | | peppers, wheatgrass juice, and barleygreen (juice). The |
| Chlorophyll is more than just a pigment, obviously, but | | | | best salad green for chlorophyll is spinach. It has been |
| the pigments tell-tale green color is a great indication if | | | | shown that cooking changes the chlorophyll, but the |
| what we are going to eat, or juice, has this most | | | | results are inconclusive to how it affects us. It results in |
| essential element. | | | | the magnesium atom in the center, though, being |
| Many studies have been done on chlorophyll's benefits. | | | | replaced with hydrogen; and chlorophyll being absent |
| It is fascinating to me that the chlorophyll pigment, is | | | | after 20 minutes of boiling. Even though green |
| almost identical to our blood pigments! The biggest | | | | vegetables are full of chlorophyll, many who are really |
| difference is that the chlorophyll pigments center atom | | | | sick do not absorb this chlorophyll due to the sad |
| is magnesium, while our bloods center atom is iron. | | | | shape their colon is in; so the raw foods should be |
| Think of it! The element that causes plants to be able | | | | juiced, since the lack of fiber in the juice causes the |
| to convert light into energy, is almost identical to our | | | | chlorophyll to be absorbed in a matter of minutes! |
| blood pigment. Thus the nickname: "green blood". It is | | | | Ann Wigmore has an unforgettable personal testimony |
| no wonder that chlorophyll has been shown to work | | | | of how she overcame gangrene in her leg. She was |
| wonders for our blood! With undiseased blood, most | | | | told she had to have her leg amputated, or she would |
| diseases are impossible. | | | | die. She absolutely refused, even though her parents, |
| It stands to reason that since chlorophyll is a natural | | | | and the Doctor were angry with her. She was |
| deodorant, that animals that eat grass should have | | | | basically left alone, and describes hours of solitude |
| sweet breath. It is implied here that they don't, but being | | | | outside; since she couldn't get around very easily, she |
| the city girl that I am, I will just have to take others' | | | | ate grass! She believes the wheatgrass juice cured |
| word for this. However, there was a study done by a | | | | her, thus her entrance into that industry. The Bible does |
| veterinarian, Dr. Maurice E. Serling. He gave his canine | | | | say that the herbs are for the healing of the nations, |
| patients in his veterinary hospital doses of chlorophyll, | | | | and given Ann Wigmore's testimony, and scores of |
| and banished all halitosis and body odor after six hours! | | | | others, I think that it is safe to say that the chlorophyll in |
| When the tablets were discontinued, the odors | | | | these herbs is definitely a factor! |
| resumed, and when they were started again, the | | | | In conclusion, raw foods remain the best way to |
| odors left again! | | | | consume chlorophyll, with juicing your vegetables or |
| There are many benefits of chlorophyll, really too | | | | drinking wheatgrass or barleygreen being the best. It is |
| many to list in detail in this article, since it has been | | | | possible to lightly steam vegetables, and still get some |
| used to fight many different diseases, but I hope to | | | | chlorophyll, but it is not ideal, because of the changed |
| give you a basic understanding of a few of its | | | | atom structure, and the unknown consequences of |
| benefits. They are: purification of the blood, liver, | | | | doing so. |
| constipation and gas corrector, emphysema, abcesses | | | | |