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About Wheatgrass

Why Wheatgrass? [Top]

Wheatgrass Wheatgrass, a natural, living, deep green leafy vegetable, has become one of the most widely used supplemental health foods in America. Wheatgrass contains chlorophyll, amino acids, enzymes, and vitamins and minerals your body needs to be healthy. Wheatgrass juice gives you the energy you need everyday while cleaning out your body from the harmful substances found in our normal food, water, and air. It is the "perfect food" for dieters, athletes, people on the go who want to stay healthy, or simply anyone who just wants to feel GREAT!

Green Gold®: "The Perfect Food" [Top]

Wheat grass Juice Many health care professionals and nutrition experts claim that wheatgrass is "the perfect food." Wheatgrass juice provides your body with an incomprehensible quantity of natural nourishment and gears your entire system toward maximum strength and optimum health. Wheatgrass is an incredible source of energy, high quality vitamins, minerals, enzymes and protein for everyone from children to senior citizens. Business execs, body builders, athletes, people with stressful lifestyles and everyone else who uses it finds that it consistently builds their constitution and makes them feel their best. If you woke up to just one ounce of fresh wheatgrass juice in place of a cup of coffee, you would derive the same benefit as eating a two-pound green salad!

What Is Wheatgrass Juice? [Top]

Wheatgrass juice is the fresh green juice from young wheat. All grains, such as barley, rye, oats and wheat, are grasses at a young stage, and when we plant wheat, we get wheatgrass. After just seven days of growth, we harvest a deep green leafy vegetable rich in chlorophyll and nutrients like the vegetation that is the primary food source for most mammals. And the juice squeezed from the blades of wheatgrass is the most complete and "perfect food" on Earth.

The Benefits [Top]

Here are some of the benefits of wheat grass juice:
  • High energy (you'll feel more awake, and experience an increase in stamina)
  • Easier digestion
  • Reduced cravings (for addictive substances)
  • Improved fertility
  • Eased pain
Wheat grass juice can also:
  • Inhibit the growth of disease-causing bacteria
  • Protect you against cancer-causing chemicals (carcinogens)
  • Build healthy blood
  • Stabilize blood sugar (although it contains glucose, wheat grass is known for its ability to help diabetics)
  • Have an anti-aging effect
  • Heal wounds, sores, rashes and infections
  • Freshen breath
  • Ease nearly every ailment found in the average improperly nourished person

What Is Wheatgrass' Nutritional Value? [Top]

Fresh wheatgrass juice is known to have all the nutrients necessary to sustain life. Its vitamins, minerals, and proteins all occur in their simplest forms—thus requiring minimal digestive activity—and are harmoniously balanced by nature in exactly the right proportions along with enzymes for maximum assimilation. Because of this, the relatively small amounts found in wheat grass juice are more useful than much larger amounts found in vitamin-mineral supplements.

Wheatgrass juice...
  • Has as much vitamin C as citrus fruits
  • Is as high in vitamin A as dark green lettuce or carrots
  • Is a good source of B-vitamins (including laetrile)
  • Contains all the minerals found in healthy soil, over 100, including:
     —Calcium, Iron, Sodium, Potassium and Magnesium
  • And also includes a variety of trace minerals such as:
     —Selenium and Zinc
  • Has all eight essential amino acids, "the building blocks of proteins." Proteins are necessary to carry out thousands of bodily functions and are needed to create any protein-based parts of the body, like hair and nails.
  • Is high in enzymes found only in living foods. When wheatgrass is 7-10 days old it contains more enzymes than at any other age.
  • Contains the simple sugar glucose which accounts for its sweet taste
  • Is composed of nearly 70% fresh chlorophyll—condensed sun energy and the world's most effective body protector and healer.
So, the next time you're on the corner having an ounce of wheatgrass juice, just stop and think: there's more going on in this little cup than in the whole city!

How to Use Wheatgrass [Top]

Drinking
The most common way to use wheatgrass juice is simply by drinking it, but individuals have different needs and preferences to the amounts they drink. Most people use wheatgrass just to feel high energy, young, and healthy, however, many people with degenerative diseases use it therapeutically. Anyone using wheatgrass for the very first time should try about a half an ounce just to make sure it agrees with you. After that, one to six ounces a day is the typical usage amount. The average busy person will have 1-2 ounces a day, while someone using wheatgrass therapeutically will have 4-6. More specifically, the optimal way to drink wheatgrass, in our opinion, is 2 ounces 3 times a day on an empty stomach.

Chewing
One of the best ways to use wheatgrass is to chew it. It nourishes the walls of your mouth and gums. The juice mixes with saliva, the way all food is designed to be eaten and can start to be absorbed while in your mouth. The wheatgrass juice becomes available in a slow, steady process, which is best. After about 5 chews you can begin tasting the juice. After it loses its flavor, spit out the pulp. The pulp has a fibrous nature, and, like chewing gum, you will sense not to swallow it.

Warning:
Please consult a doctor before trying any of the following methods.
These practices are taught at the Optimum Health Institute of San Diego, California; Hippocrates Health Institute in West Palm Beach, Florida; and the Ann Wigmore Institute in Puerto Rico. You can also read about them in the Wheatgrass Book by Ann Wigmore.


Poultices
Poultice Grass poultices have been used throughout man's history as a healer, and can still be used today with a wheatgrass poultice. A Poultice can be made by juicing or chewing wheatgrass, taking the pulp, dipping it in the juice, and applying it to the skin. It can be applied to any cuts, burns, rashes, wounds, or external infections. Doing this seems to clean and nourish the area, and this dramatically aids healing. One can also use a wheatgrass poultice to aid internal areas by placing the poultice directly above the known source of the problem.

Rectal Implants
Wheatgrass juice can be used as a rectal implant. The colon is an organ designed to quickly absorb any nutrients that might remain at the end of digestion, and is probably the most direct way to get wheatgrass juice into the bloodstream. The colon is also a relatively malnourished and toxic environment, and can most benefit from the wheatgrass. Typically after an enema (a flushing out of the colon with water) one can implant 2-6 ounces of wheatgrass juice, retaining it as long as possible.

 
     
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