.Once the highly nourishing vegetable grass drink was consumed by the ailing people, and the weeks passed, their bodies felt the effects of the grass and seemed to go into healing mode.
What Is The Basic Cause Of Disease?
Ann Wigmore Why Suffer - How I Overcome Illness & Pain Naturally, and The Wheatgrass Book was such an insightful and wise woman. From personal healing experiences and study, she believed the green juice cleansed wastes from cells, blood, tissues and organs that are clogging one's body. She thought people needed to clean out their bodies from the years of poor food choices, many loaded with chemicals, that had finally brought their bodies to the "breaking point."She believed cell toxemia, from nutritional deficiency and stresses, is the only disease in western man. Toxemia is a word used to explain poisons that are stored in the body. Over toxicity is created by eating processed, unnatural, and chemicalized foods and having a body that is not optimally flushing out these toxins.
Ann Wigmore taught that the body can help to release these stored poisons by feeding it live foods that are easy to digest.
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Once the body eliminates stored toxins and poisons that have accumulated in the bloodstream and colon, the cells are able to receive nourishment, thus enabling the immune system to strengthen and rebuild.
Poor health is a manifestation from the body losing its ability to digest foods and absorb nutrients. Deficiency disorders are thus created, including allergies which are so prevalent today.
Many people experienced great healing success by following Wigmore's alternative health methods. She found consuming wheatgrass juice, raw foods and sprouts, performing exercise, having peace of mind and a positive emotional state to be what would bring one closest to finding the "fountain of youth."
Yes, Wigmore was an early pioneer in the widely therapeutic use of fresh wheatgrass juice and living foods for detoxifying and healing the body, mind and spirit. She believed that lasting true health would not be found in a pill, but the true "cure" from disease and illness was to be found in getting a person healthy and teaching them how to naturally take care of themselves. To read a brief biography of Ann Wigmore and to learn what led to finding her natural healing calling in life, please click here.
She clearly believed in God creating a masterpiece of a human body, and that it is us either knowingly or unknowingly that have damaged our own health.
Wigmore was also way ahead in terms of knowing how damaging the hydrogenated, partially hydrogenated and rancid vegetable oils are to the human body on so many levels.
Let Food Be Thy Medicine - Hippocrates
Ann Wigmore found the wheat grass to be the richest in vitamins, minerals and amino acids. She tirelessly provided this youthfulness and beauty promoting beverage. She felt the green drink would help Mother Nature along to mend the destroyed health of others and to also extend the span of their lives.
She went out to mend the health of those whose bodies were weary and running low on life and had given up on hope. She greatly enjoyed watching these people come back to life before her very eyes and knew it was her mission to share nature's incomparable medicine, wheatgrass, with as many people as she could and to educate others on how they could grow it themselves.
Natural Health Institute
She was able to achieve this divine alternative medicine mission by creating the get well body health center called the Hippocrates Health Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, which opened in 1963 and the Ann Wigmore Foundation which began in Boston in 1985.
Ann Wigmore's natural health teachings also continue on at the following natural healing centers.
The Hippocrates Health Institute is now operating out of West Palm Beach, Florida with different leadership and continues to carry forth Wigmore's natural healing teachings.
The Optimum Health Institute - One of these regain a well body health center retreats are in Austin, Texas and the other is in San Diego, CA - also carries forth Wigmore's natural health philosophies.
Wheatgrass has long been used like an herbal medicine - for its therapeutic and nutritional properties. Wheatgrass is the leader of the nutritional greens. Although wheat is the most popular, barley, oats and rye are equally potent.
People from all areas and all walks of life including leaders and doctors from around the world who were seeking health restoration, came to spend time with Ann Wigmore at her natural health institute. Yes, they had even traveled from all corners of the globe to absorb her natural health treatment teachings. 
