Extract taken from Wheatgrass: Natures Finest Medicine – Steve Meyerowitz, Sproutman
(Science & Wheatgrass, p 171)“What role does science play in confirming wheatgrass as a natural medicine? In this book there are numerous research citations demonstrating its wondrous healing properties. Every decade since the 1930’s has produced studies on its prodigious nutritional and phytochemical qualities. The magical properties of chlorophyll as a blood builder for the anemic, for disinfecting and neutralizing odours, and healing wounds, started becoming known as far back as 1915. The 1970’s, 80’s and 90’s presented numerous studies on barley grass and its superior antioxidant, tumor suppressant and immune supportive functions. These were traditionally designed studies with many published in peer-reviewed journals. nevertheless, grasses are not a mainstream accepted food or medicine and their therapeutic potential benefits only a closed club of faithfuls. It is considered unproven. But clinical evidence from health professionals and testimony from users who have conquered life threatening diseases after being abandoned by conventional medicine have value."
Why there aren’t more studies on Wheatgrass?
(Printed with permission from Steve Meyerowitz – P176 Natures Finest Medicine)Wheatgrass is not a drug. Natural products are not easily patented and the average cost of bringing a new product up to FDA approval in America is $359 million per therapeutic use. While this may be only a few days’ earnings in the prescription drug industry, it is beyond the reach of natural products manufacturers. Getting a study published in medical journals is difficult, and drug companies have substantial political and financial influence with them, since journals depend on drug ads to survive. Unless the system changes, it is unlikely that approved medicines will come from anyone other then major pharmaceutical companies.
Conventional medicine takes years to accept any discovery that challenges cherished beliefs. Typically, a discovery that contradicts mainstream authority is regarded as quackery. Pasteur was reviled for years about his “germ theory.” William Harvey (1628) was ridiculed when he claimed that blood circulates. Roentgen was laughed at in 1895 upon discovering X-rays. It is always an uphill fight opposing the status-quo which by its nature is against change.
