Wheat Grass Juice

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 HEALTH BENEFITS OF WHEAT GRASS JUICE– EMERGENCE OF WHEAT GRASS THERAPY

1.         Grass was the first sign of vegetation on earth when land first emerged out of water. Grass is also the base food chain or pyramid for all animals. Interestingly, grains, including wheat, rice, barley, oats, corn, millets etc, which are prime sources of food for humans, germinate into grass initially before becoming crops. These cereal grasses, especially, wheat grass contain many essential nutrients which they absorb directly from the soil.

2.         You may think grass is only meant for cows! But it is not so! The recent history of wheat grass goes back to the 1940s when Dr. Ann Wigmore claimed she healed herself of gangrene by eating weeds and grass she found in a vacant plot in Boston, USA. Dr. Wigmore found that wheat grass was the best nutritional source amongst about 3,000 varieties of grasses in the world for medicinal purposes. Dr. Ann Wigmore, founder of the Hippocrates Health Institute, Boston, USA, is one of the proponents of the wheat grass therapy. She even cured incurable advanced cancer and other patients.

CHLOROPHYLL – MAIN COMPONENT OF WHEAT GRASS

3.         The main component (70%) of wheat grass – a wonder plant – is chlorophyll which nature utilizes as a body cleanser, rebuilder and neutralizer of toxins. Dr. Wigmore in her book “Hippocrates Diet and Health Programme” rightly referred to chlorophyll as “green blood” since it forms the blood of plants. Others have named chlorophyll as the “concentrated sun power” or “solar energy”. Chlorophyll is a potent germicidal substance. It destroys certain types of germs that are responsible for spreading certain diseases and paralyses some others which are equally dangerous for us. According to Dr. Birscher, a research scientist, the consumption of chlorophyll increases the function of the heart, and beneficially affects the vascular system, the intestines, the uterus and the lungs. It raises the basic nitrogen exchange and is therefore a tonic which, considering its stimulating properties, is superior to all others.

4.         We all know that human blood contains a substance called haemoglobin. Haemoglobin contains hemin. From the view point of chemical formation, there are a lot of similarities between hemin and chlorophyll. In both of them the arrangement and the number of hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen molecules are almost similar. There is only one little difference between the constitution of hemin and chlorophyll. Magnesium is in the centre of chlorophyll molecules while in the centre of the hemin molecules we find iron.

5.         Owing to their close molecular resemblance, chlorophyll is considered to be the natural blood building element for all plant eaters and humans. Magnesium found in the protons of chlorophyll is essential and beneficial for about 30 enzymes of our body. On consumption, the chlorophyll molecules get attached to the molecules component of the blood and refurbish the lost