How to Grow Wheatgrass Successfully

Here is a picture of wheatgrass I recently purchased. A huge flat for $8 at my local health food store. Isn’t it lovely?

Wheatgrass has some amazing healing properties and the juice of wheatgrass is nutritionally exceptional. I get a bit of wheatgrass in my shake every morning (it’s in the JuicePlus Complete powder), but I’ve been needing an extra strength dosage (I got severely dehydrated after my half-marathon, and my kidneys are still recouping…I think I may have had a small kidney stone, but that’s a different story for another post).

Here are some of the benefits of this amazing food:

  • One of the best sources of living chlorophyll available
  • Anti-bacterial
  • Assists in rebuilding red blood cells
  • Can assist in restoring fertility due to high magnesium content
  • Readily absorbs minerals from the soil
  • 30 year track record of helping people to recover from illness – foundation of many cancer-recovery centers
  • Incredible detoxifying agent – 15 pounds of wheatgrass is equivalent of 350 pounds of carrot, lettuce, celery, and other produce
  • Neutralizes toxins
  • Helps purify the liver
  • Improves blood sugar regulation
  • In a 1940 issue of The American Journal of Surgery, Dr. Benjamin Gruskin, M.D. recommended chlorophyll to clear up foul-smelling odors, neutralize staph infections, heal wounds, hasten skin grafting, cure chronic sinusitis, reduce varicose veins, treat cervical inflammation, reduce typhoid fever, among other things
  • Improves complexion
  • Improves strength, endurance, health
  • Improves digestion
  • Reduces high blood pressure (Source: Health Briefs Online, Volume 1, p. 147).

It’s a pain to grow though. It gets moldy very easily and I’ve never been successful at keeping it alive and mold-free.

However, one of my Pilates students suggested that I try putting it by a fan in order to keep it mold-free. He said he was able to grow wheatgrass for 3 years straight without any problem by doing this. Side note, said student used wheatgrass and a raw foods diet after unsuccessful attempts to deal with cancer through radiation. The dietary changes worked wonders and he is now cancer-free.

I’m going to try using the fan and see if this does the trick. Perhaps this is the answer to growing wheatgrass succesfully. I’ll let you know.


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