Wheatgrass Juice Put to the Test
In an editorial that accompanied a landmark study showing an extract of the spice turmeric could be used to fight ulcerative colitis, the authors congratulated the researchers on performing the largest study ever on complementary or alternative medicine approaches to treat inflammatory bowel disease. But that’s not saying much. Two of the only other high quality trials tested aloe vera gel and wheat grass juice. No significant improvements in clinical remission rates or endoscopy findings on aloe vera were observed ,. (And I would recommend against internal aloe use–see my aloe vera videos here ). However the wheat grass findings were impressive, as I discuss in my video Wheatgrass Juice for Ulcerative Colitis . “The use of wheat grass…juice for treatment of various gastrointestinal and other conditions had been suggested by its proponents for more than 30 years, but was never clinically assessed in a controlled trial”…until now. Wrote the researchers: “The use of wheat grass juice...
