| What nutrient is so good for you that it has been | | | | of the liver and kidney, kidney stones, and it has also |
| called a "wonder drug", and has played a major part in | | | | been shown to be an excellent topical for infections |
| healing a woman from gangrene? You may have | | | | and burns! Chlorophyll contains properties that break |
| guessed from the title of the article: Chlorophyll. What | | | | down carbon dioxide, and release oxygen, which kills |
| is the difference between straw and hay? Chlorophyll. | | | | bacteria. Amazingly, it has also been used by |
| For those that are city dwellers, good hay is rich in | | | | professionals in deep surgical wounds! Its absence of |
| chlorophyll, and food for many animals, that in turn are | | | | toxicity, and promotion of repair tissue/skin, and |
| food for many of us. Without this vital element, plants, | | | | soothing qualities makes it a miracle antiseptic, and it is |
| as well as animals and man, would cease to exist. In | | | | my belief that if it could be patented, it would be, along |
| this article, I will address some of the many benefits of | | | | with the air we breathe. (Thank goodness that's not |
| chlorophyll, and explain why raw foods are the best | | | | so!) |
| source for this incredible nutrient. | | | | The raw foods that contain chlorophyll are: green leafy |
| Chlorophyll is the green pigment found in plants, that | | | | vegetables of all kinds, green olives, romaine lettuce, |
| enables them to take nutrition from the air, sun, and | | | | sea vegetables, broccoli, green peas, leeks, bell |
| water, and make them "living", raw foods. This green | | | | peppers, wheatgrass juice, and barleygreen (juice). The |
| pigment covers up any carotene pigment in the plant. | | | | best salad green for chlorophyll is spinach. It has been |
| Chlorophyll being a pigment makes it easily spotted in | | | | shown that cooking changes the chlorophyll, but the |
| our foods: if it is green, then we know it has this vital | | | | results are inconclusive to how it affects us. It results in |
| 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; juicing the raw foods eliminates |
| Think of it! The element that causes plants to be able | | | | the fiber, making the juice and the chlorophyll absorbed |
| to convert light into energy, is almost identical to our | | | | by your body in a few 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 has been noted that since chlorophyll is a body | | | | and the Doctor were angry with her. She was |
| deodorant, that animals such as horses and cows | | | | basically left alone, and describes hours of solitude |
| should have sweet breath. It is implied here that they | | | | outside; since she couldn't get around very easily, she |
| don't, but being the city girl that I am, I will just have to | | | | ate grass! She believes the wheatgrass juice cured |
| take others' word for this. However, there was a | | | | her, thus her entrance into that industry. The Bible does |
| study done by a veterinarian, Dr. Maurice E. Serling. He | | | | say that the herbs are for the healing of the nations, |
| gave his canine patients in his veterinary hospital doses | | | | and given Ann Wigmore's testimony, and scores of |
| of chlorophyll, and banished all halitosis and body odor | | | | others, I think that it is safe to say that the chlorophyll in |
| after six hours! When the tablets were discontinued, | | | | these herbs is definitely a factor! |
| the odors resumed, and when they were started | | | | In conclusion, raw foods remain the best way to |
| again, the 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 | | | | |