How to Boost Health With Wheatgrass

Wheatgrass is sweeping the menus of juice bars and health food restaurants across the nation, and for good reason, as this simple herb offers a major boost in health. Easy to grow, easy to juice and easy to drink, it's difficult to think of a reason why not to enjoy wheatgrass.

Things You'll Need

• Wheatgrass juice

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Instructions

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  Enjoy the blood cleansing benefits of wheatgrass and a boost in overall health. Wheat grass helps to clean the blood, organs and gastrointestinal tract, while lowering blood pressure, stimulating metabolism and increasing the number of red blood cells in the body.

• 2

  Drink wheatgrass if you suffer from digestive disorders, ulcers, colitis, constipation or diarrhea. These conditions are commonly caused or aggravated by too much acid in the bloodstream. Wheatgrass helps to restore the pH balance of the blood, in turn boosting health in general.

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  Use wheatgrass to both cleanse the body and protect yourself from the harmful toxins in your foods and environment. Wheatgrass is rich in enzymes, amino acids and antioxidant which help to improve digestion and absorption, remove toxins from the body and protect cells from damage. By neutralizing harmful toxins, wheatgrass can improve immune system function, reduce the speed of aging and help to protect you from cancer.

• 4

  Take a moment to gargle wheat grass as it prevents and eliminates bad breath and helps to keep the gums strong and healthy.

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  Apply wheatgrass juice directly to the skin to stop itching and soothe a sunburn. Rubbing the juice into your scalp before you shampoo can help to relieve itchy scalp and dandruff and even reverse and prevent hair from graying. Topical applications of wheatgrass help to heal and soothe just about any skin condition including minor wounds, rashes, poison ivy, fungal infections, boils, eczema and psoriasis. Juice can be added directly to a bath or applied to a poultice three or four times daily.