Healthsmith

Saturday, January 22, 2005

The chlorophyll factor

The blood’s greatest cleanser and builder is the chlorophyll found in all green plants. The process of photosynthesis—the interaction between the energy in sunlight and chlorophyll—manufactures plant food in green leaves. Chlorophyll is necessary for plants to manufacture food—carbohydrates and sugar—from inorganic minerals through the photosynthesis occurring in the presence of light. Chlorophyll has the capacity to eliminate heavy metals, drug residues, and other toxins and is one of the basic building blocks for life on this planet.

Chlorophyll, visibly the green color in plants, depends greatly upon iron which is likened to the hemoglobin in red blood cells. “Inorganic iron is useless to man, it must evolve through plants which organize iron into its biochemical form.”

In The Chemistry of Man, Bernard Jensen refers to an experiment in which the blood of rats was replaced with chlorophyll, yet the rats remained in good health. Even the United States Army tested chlorophyll and discovered that it helps cleanse the human body of radioactive contamination. Other researchers have claimed chlorophyll clears toxic heavy metals out of the body—including arsenic. These kinds of results appear to suggest that it may be possible to someday introduce chlorophyll directly into the bloodstream in order to increase the blood count.

Emil Burg in Sweden has conducted research on chlorophyll. He advocates, in part, “Chlorophyll is recommended as an excellent specific for influencing anemia of various kinds, for bettering the general condition of health, for improving the action of the heart, for reducing blood pressure in cases where it is abnormally high. In cases of heart block, weakness of the heart, etc., in conjunction with abnormal blood pressure (usually due to arteriosclerosis) the administration of chlorophyll brought about a slow but rather considerably improved action of the heart. It stimulates peristalses, improves the intestines, and is a mild diuretic.”

One quality that most doctors discovered was that the green solution seemed to thicken and strengthen the walls of the body cells of living animals. This was perceived as a medical need even more urgent than the use of chlorophyll as treatment for anemia (Science Newsletter, March 15, 1941).This chlorophyll solution was found to be an antiseptic strong enough to kill germs yet remain soothing to tissues. A chlorophyll solution increased the resistance of the cells and inhibited the growth of bacteria, thus preventing the germs from spreading the poison.

Various studies have reported that chlorophyll is nontoxic. Many synthetic drugs used today for internal treatment, unless taken as prescribed, can injure healthy tissue, and many have various side effects. Consequently, at times, healthy tissue suffers during the treatment of the diseased tissue. Another problem with synthetic drugs is the risk of allergic reactions, particularly in individuals with poor kidney elimination.

Chlorophyll, on the other hand, has no side effects and causes no toxic reactions. Chlorophyll also has a deodorant quality that no other medicine possesses—when it is applied to a wound, the foul odor disappears and spontaneous healing begins.

Chlorophyll is mainly used in liquid form. The careful extraction of green pigment through the laboratory processing of green plants, particularly alfalfa leaves, results in a liquid that appears dark green in color. The laboratory process first removes the waxes and fats existing within the cells of the leaves and the fine membranes covering millions of tiny chlorophyll containing cells are then removed, delivering the water soluble product. The higher the concentration of liquid chlorophyll, the more effective it is in its application.

How does chlorophyll affect the human system? Behind the theory that it strengthens the cells, and gives the body the opportunity to apply its own defenses, the researchers frankly admit that they don’t know. It’s exact nature may never be fully understood. “It is possible,” says one temple pathologist, “that the bacteria, being of vegetable origin yet possessing ordinarily no chlorophyll, undergo some biological change in the presence of the substance.” There is hope that this early evidence of nature’s “green magic” heals as well as nourishes man. Chlorophyll is one of the most interesting lines of research on the frontiers of medicine today!