How to Heal With Dry Wheat Grass

Dr. Ann Wigmore, founder of the Hippocrates Health Institute in Boston Massachusetts, helped to make wheat grass known as a powerful health remedy. She claimed that it helped in treating various ailments like fatigue, toxic overload, digestive disorders, cardiovascular problems and even some cancers. Due to the lack of scientific research however, these claims have not been embraced by the medical community. One indisputable fact about wheat grass is its high chlorophyll content. Wheat grass also contains nutrients that aid in improving health. Although many of the health improvements from wheat grass may come from the enzymes available in the fresh juice, dry wheat grass also offers benefits.

Things You'll Need

• Dried wheat grass juice in tablet, capsule or powder form

Instructions

1. Use dry wheat grass juice to improve your blood. According to Vanderbilt University, wheat grass is composed of 70% chlorophyll, which can increase the production of red blood cells and benefits sufferers of anemia and recent receivers of blood transfusions. This is due to its similarity in molecular structure with hemoglobin, an oxygen-carrying protein for red blood cells.

2. Take dry wheat grass juice to cleanse and detoxify. The high levels of chlorophyll in wheat grass are extremely useful for ridding yourself of harmful impurities and can act as a first step in whole-body cleanses. According to Phyllis Balch in her book "Prescription for Nutritional Healing," chlorophyll can also help to improve digestive regularity.

3. Use dry wheat grass juice to protect yourself from harmful radiation. Whether you have been exposed to X-rays or some other source of radiation, the chlorophyll in wheat grass juice may help to protect your cells from the dangerous effects of radiation exposure. If possible, take wheat grass juice before and after the exposure.

4. Take dry wheat grass juice for its nutritional content. Wheat grass juice is a highly available source of the vitamins A, B, C and E. Additionally, it is composed of the minerals calcium, magnesium, iron and potassium.

Tips & Warnings

• Dry wheat grass juice has the added benefit of being shelf-stable and convenient for traveling.

• Dry wheat grass juice can be easily mixed into smoothies and vegetable and fruit juices.

• Tablet and capsule forms of dry wheat grass juice are an excellent option if you cannot tolerate the taste of fresh wheat grass juice.

• Build up the amount of dry wheat grass juice that you take each day as its detoxifying properties could be too strong initially.

• Take care not to spill wheat grass juice powder, especially when it is mixed with a liquid, since its chlorophyll content makes it a stain hazard.

References

• Vanderbilt University
• "Prescription for Nutritional Healing;" Balch, Phyllis; 2000