Chlorophyll has many beneficial qualities. It is a stimulant, depurative and anti-carcinogen. And once absorbed by the blood via the lymphatic system, this green pigment in plants, whose structure is very similar to our hemoglobin, activates cell metabolism, detoxifies, improving defence, the regenerative capacity of cells and their breathing power, natural healing processes, stimulates the formation of red blood cells, and helps to heal wounds. It cleanses the blood, stops infections, balances the acid-base ratio and prevents cancer, as noted by Laura Jimeno Muñoz, a great specialist on the subject, who described it very accurately as ‘green blood’.
Its name comes from the Greek khloros – which means light green or yellowish green – and phylon, meaning ‘leaf’.
Although it may seem strange, chlorophyll was not discovered until the beginning of the 19th century (in historical terms, two days ago) by the French chemists Pierre Joseph Pelletier and Joseph Bienaimé Caventou.
It is a plant pigment, present in all plants, fundamental to life on Earth because it is responsible for absorbing photons of light to perform photosynthesis. This process transforms light energy into chemical energy, creating oxygen that is released into the atmosphere for the benefit of all living beings on the planet.
It seems that the earliest forms of life able to convert solar energy into energy for life appeared on the Earth more than 3,600 million years ago and their successful nutrition and respiration systems have not changed since then. But it was not until 1913 that the transcendental functions of chlorophyll were discovered. The finding is due to Dr. Richard Willstätter, a German chemical engineer awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1915 for his research in the field of vegetable colours.
Then in the 1960s Dr. H. E. Kirschner – who collected his interesting findings in the book Nature’s Healing Grasses – stated specifically that ‘chlorophyll is healing and powerful. Devastating to germs and viruses but gentle with diseased body organs and tissues, the way it works is nature’s secret. It seems like green magic.’
Subsequently, Dr. Birscher, a physicist scholar of plant dyes, called chlorophyll the ‘concentrated power of the Sun’.
