The Ashitaba Miracle: Detoxify and Heal Your Body with Ashitaba!

By Gretchen Wells

Ashitaba (also known as Tomorrow Leaves) is nature's miraculous herb. This unique plant sets itself apart from other medicinal herbs because it has been found to:

- Promote weight loss
- Improve your digestion
- Detoxify your body from harmful chemicals and heavy metals
- Prevent the premature aging of your skin
- Help prevent cancer, asthma, diabetes, menstrual problems and other common diseases

The Ashitaba Miracle explains the healthy benefits of the ashitaba plant and shows you how you can maximize its powerful effects to your body.

This guide will also discuss various ways you can prepare ashitaba in your meals.

Although incredibly powerful, The Ashitaba Miracle is completely safe and simple enough for even a child.

• Language: English
• Publisher: RSV Publishing
• Release date: Jul 4, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301885626

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The Ashitaba Miracle

By Gretchen Wells

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Copyright 2013 Gretchen Wells

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Chapter 1 - Introduction

You are what you eat.

What we eat has a direct effect on how our bodies would react to food and how we intend to live our lives. Many people now are putting great consideration on their health than ever before. Healthcare costs add up and starting to toll as we age.

"Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food." - Hippocrates

Through the years, we have been informed that going natural is better than taking artificial supplements and medications to boost our health. We eat to live and not live to eat. There are many health conditions known to be alleviated only by living healthy practices and taking a healthy diet and making it to a lifestyle. These food do not have side effects, except for allergies, and they are safer for consumption versus any other drugs.

Natural medicines, hence, are also becoming a boom throughout the world. Primarily, countries in Asia and some parts of the US and Europe are setting up teams to study about the effectiveness of medicines derived from plants. They are investigating on how to prove how life sciences and the biological structure of plants can help to aid diseases. Through extracting and testing compounds, they are to know whether they can hinder some ailments to worsen and completely treat them.

In 2000, Drug Store News revealed the top healing herbs and top supplements sold in the US:

Top Healing Herbs in the United States

Top Supplements in the United States

In 2002, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) conducted the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) which showed that the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the United States continues to expand. Even the most frightening big C (for Cancer) can now be evaded as there strong affirmation that herbal medicine and the use of herbal products has grown dramatically in the Western world.

Let food be thy medicine and let medicine be thy food. - Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine (460-377 B.C.)

Results taken from the studies of Nutrition, Health and the Environment led by T. Colin Campbell of Cornell University in 1990 confirmed that the healthiest diets in the world contain a minimum of 80 - 90% plant foods. They also conferred that people who take only about 10 to 15 percent of calories and 7 percent of protein from their animal meat intake had lower incidence of heart disease, colon cancer, and osteoporosis. This is based on a test performed on over 6,500 people.

"When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need." - Ancient Ayurvedic Proverb

After conducting several tests and putting out hypotheses, the Western and the Chinese found that they had different yet relevant approaches to keeping the body healthy by food consumption. The idea is that people should take healthy food in every meal. Since the body is found to be the best healer to avoid symptoms of diseases and counter them, eating herbs will help to reinforce the body's healing energy.

Prevention of Disease by Eating Herbs

Ashitaba organically grown in the U.S. is a well-kept secret and there are still few plantations of ashitaba all over the world.

The longest traces of people eating herbs for preventing diseases and treating them can be retrieved from China’s history. In fact, Chinese Materia Medica, a reference material categorizing the types of herbs, was written back 3000-4000 years ago.

Out of the three types of herbs, the most nourishing type has been classified as the food herbs. Food herbs, also called as immortal food, nourish the