Food is being delivered from farther and farther away as the global distribution system delivers tomatoes from Holland and cantaloupe from Chile. Agricultural chemicals banned in North America are nevertheless showing up on our dinner plates. Rising oil prices are perpetually raising the price of our long-distance, imported diet.

Steve Meyerowitz, the “Sproutman®” is a health crusader whose passion is to return to the concept, practiced over a hundred years ago, where most families provided their own food. The only transportation involved in this approach is the one from the garden to the dinner table. Says Meyerowitz, “You don’t need a peer reviewed study to know that this is the healthiest food in the world.” But the problem is: “We live in the Northeast where home gardening is not an option most of the year or we reside in apartments several stories above the city pavement.” Meyerowitz‘ solution: “Kitchen Gardening.” — A no-soil approach using baby versions of many common vegetables, grains, and beans. He calls these “The World’s Healthiest Vegetables” because as baby plants, they concentrate their nutrition many times over the mature version of the same vegetable.

Sproutman will demonstrate how you can grow your own victory garden of fresh organic foods and become less dependent on the commercial food network. It’s easy. It’s delicious. It’s healthy. Kids love it. You can literally watch your food grow. His motto is “One week from seed to salad®.” Find out how easy it is to grow these amazing living foods and how they can add energy to your days, and years to your life.

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Topic: How to Grow and Use Wheatgrass with Sproutman®
Date: Tuesday, October 04, 2011
8:00 PM – 9:30 PM Eastern Time

Use this Coupon Code WG2011 at check out to get $5.00 off the Wheatgrass Class!

CLASS DESCRIPTION:

Much has changed since Ann Wigmore had us bringing worms and compost into our kitchens to grow grass. Today, you can have a professional grow it for you; you can buy it in a bottle; you can get highly potent wheatgrass ice cubes that last a year in your freezer; you can get delicious wheatgrass elixer called “super shots” made from organic wheatgrass extract; and you can get wheatgrass extract in a skin cream; or in a spray. And for those of you who do want to grow it, you can now do it without any soil and just as much nutrition! Join me for about 100 color slides. You’ll discover things you never knew about wheatgrass and have plenty of time to ask your questions. 1.5 hours.

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OUCH!  Recently, a woodworker wrote me about his nearly cutting his finger off while using a machine saw. It was pretty bad and he asked me “Will wheatgrass help the healing? If yes, how would you use it?”

Truly, wheatgrass is a wonderful healer. If you can, please read the Research Chapter of my book Wheatgrass Nature’s Finest Medicine. There, you will find a long history of wheatgrass being used for cuts, bruises, burns, athlete’s foot, eczema, psoriasis, ulcers, gum disease, gingivitis, and more.

I told him to go out to his yard and pick the healthiest looking grass out there. Crush it to the point when you can squeeze out some juice. Even if you don’t have a juicer designed for wheatgrass, you can twist and press the grass to the point where it gets juicy. Then wrap the juicy grass pulp around the hurt finger. Keep it there for an hour. Support it by keeping it in place using some kind of stretch gauze. Pay close attention to the poultice to make sure neither the gauze or the grass blades do not get caught in the fibrin forming in the wound. It is okay for juice and small fibers to get trapped in the wound, but pull the larger stuff out.

If you do have a juicer, alternatively you can dip the gauze into the juice instead of using pulp. Its your preference depending on your circumstances, but the pulp wrap is superior, although a little messier. This whole process can be messy. However, if you’ve nearly cut your finger off, neatness is not a priority. But do be aware that chlorophyll is a natural dye. Protect your clothing.

Grab enough grass to make several poultices for the day and store it in the fridge. You should freshen the wrap approximately once per hour, at least for the first day. You can space it out longer after that. Apply these grass poultices over 3-4 days depending on the severity of the wound. Ideally, fresh grown indoor wheatgrass, either grown by yourself or by a professional grower is best.

The fresh grass is the most healing and while the wound is new and raw, it is the best remedy. Later, once the wound is solidly knitted, (5-7 days?) you can use the wheatgrass spray (especially if the wound is sensitive) or just use the wheatgrass balm. Of course, if you need stitches, get that done first and then use the grass poultice to help speed up the healing of the wound. Only don’t tell the docs you’re doing it.

When time allows, you could order fresh wheatgrass either mine, grown by one of the best wheatgrass growers in the business, or whatever you can buy locally. It’s much more therapeutic than the outdoor grass on your lawn. Another excellent alternative is frozen wheatgrass. This wheatgrass is grown in deeper roots at colder temperatures and under full sunshine. It is superior to indoor grass. But it is only available frozen (unless you have your own garden). Sure, frozen looses a little, but the processing is done so diligently, and the grass is so superior, that the healing properties are definitely still there. And if you read the “Real Stories from Real People” chapter of my book, you’ll learn that many of the folks that healed themselves never had access to fresh grass. Frozen was all they ever used. The neat part is that it stores for months in your freezer and is always available to you. You can melt it onto the gauze and also melt it into a drink. Or just suck on the cubes.

 You probably noticed that I have not recommended the powder. My Wheatgrass Juice powder is potent, convenient, and affordable. It is great for internal nourishment, but it is not the first choice for external wounds. Sure, I would use it in a second if that is all I had, and there are many advantages to this kind of grass. I just prefer to use it internally. Of course, how the grass is juiced and then dehydrated….that whole process of converting from fresh to powder, and how it is transported, etc. is more involved than just freezing something. My powder is all low temperature dried and with zero friction. And it is really juice powder, not grass powder like so many wheatgrass products. Dried grass has one overwhelming advantage. It takes about 25 ounces of fresh juice to make one ounce of powder. That means this stuff is super concentrated. That makes it a vitamin. And this vitamin was made in perfect balance by nature.

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Total Phenolics Level, Antioxidant Activities and Cytotoxicity of Young Sprouts of Some Traditional Korean Salad Plants. 

Plant Foods Hum Nutr. 2008 Nov 19. Chon SU, Heo BG, Park YS, Kim DK, Gorinstein S. EFARINET Co. Ltd., BI Center, Chosun University, Gwangju, 501-759, South Korea.

The aim of this investigation was to study the antioxidant and anticancer activities of young sprouts of some traditional Korean salad plants. Total phenolics, antioxidant and anticancer activities of the methanol extracts from young sprouts of 11 salad plants were determined. The highest amount of phenolics was found in methanol extracts of Euonymus alatus (235.7 mg kg(-1)), followed by Hypericum ascyron (St. John’s wort)(197.1 mg kg(-1)), Zanthoxylum piperitum (pepper)(194.1 mg kg(-1)) and Zanthoxylum schinifolium (Sichuan pepper)(142.5 mg kg(-1)). Methanol extracts of E. alatus, H. ascyron, and Z. piperitum at 63 mg kg(-1) exhibited the highest dose-depend DPPH radical scavenging activity by 91.2, 91.2 and 83.9%, respectively. According to the MTT results, the methanol extracts from Stellaria aquatica, Eleutherococcus sessiliflorus (ivy family) and Z. schinifolium showed the highest anticancer activities against Calu-6 (IC50 < 25.0 microgml(-1)) and from S. aquatica-the highest anticancer activities against SNU-601 (153.3 microgml(-1)), following by E. sessilifolrus (196.7 microg ml(-1)) and Amaranthus mangostanus (small grain) (303.1 microgml(-1)). Total phenolics were highly correlated with the DPPH, suggesting that they contribute to the antioxidant properties of the studied plants.

In conclusion: young sprouts of Korean salad possess antioxidant and anticancer properties and could be used as a supplement to proper drugs.  You can grow these sprouts in our Freshlife Automatic Sprouter.

Daikon Sprouts

ISHS Acta Horticulturae 765: XXVII International Horticultural Congress – IHC2006: International Symposium on Plants as Food and Medicine: The Utilization and Development of Horticultural Plants for Human Health. T.J. O’Hare, L.S. Wong, L.E. Force, C.B. Gurung, D.E. Irving, D.J. Williams

Daikon and radish sprouts contain high levels of glucoraphenin, a glucosinolate which hydrolyses to form sulphoraphene. Sulphoraphene, like sulphoraphane from broccoli, is a potent inducer of phase 2 detoxification enzymes and consequently has potential anti-cancer action. Unlike broccoli however, daikon and radish do not possess epithiospecifier protein, a protein that inhibits conversion of glucosinolates to isothiocyanates, and consequently they may represent more suitable sources of phytochemicals with anti-cancer potential. Concentrations of glucoraphenin were highest in the seed, declining exponentially with sprout development. The rate of decline was observed to vary considerably between varieties of daikon and radish, with some varieties maintaining significantly high levels of glucoraphenin. Varieties maintaining a high level of glucoraphenin included ‘Cherry Belle’ and ‘French Breakfast’.

A scientific paper was presented at the International Horticultural Congress in Seoul (Korea) in August 2006 entitled: “Glucosinolate Composition and Anti-Cancer Potential of Daikon and Radish sprouts”. A poster presentation was made at the 6th Annual Health and Medical Research Conference of Queensland.  (November, 2006).