Skin Conditions, the Grass Juice Factor and Immunomodulation

Wheatgrass juice is essentially a nutritional supplement.

But it is much more than that. What is not generally known about wheatgrass is that it is also a powerful topical agent that can be used effectively for numerous skin conditions from psoriasis and eczema to burns and wound healing. And it is safe.

Chlorophyll has usually been attributed as the main skin-healing constituent of wheatgrass.

I have good reason to disagree with this theory. Chlorophyll degenerates quickly following juice extraction and most likely loses its biological activity almost immediately. So if it is not the chlorophyll or other known constituents conferring on wheatgrass the numerous therapeutic properties it contains, then what does?

Having used wheatgrass successfully in numerous clinical conditions in thousands of patients, I have little doubt its efficacy derives from a molecule or group of molecules that constitute the "grass juice factor". First discovered and described during scientific experiments in the 30's, the grass juice factor has never been isolated - its effects only observed. Its presence is, even today, only detectable clinically. It makes sense that if the grass juice factor is ever-present in juiced wheatgrass but remains undetectable, then claims of therapeutic efficacy from chlorophyll are quite possibly specious.

In my opinion, the grass juice factor is a topical immunomodulator. 

With a specially formulated, stabilised extract of wheatgrass, I can achieve the same clinical effects that freshly juiced wheatgrass can.  Wound and burn healing, and excellent recovery rates often observed in skin and other conditions such as acne rosacea and eczema, testify to the "normalising" effect of the grass juice factor. In fact, the frequently observed positive response of chronic and acute eczema to wheatgrass application suggests to me a considerable degree of auto-immunity in this condition. In other words, the patient may be genetically predisposed to eczema, but the skin manifestations are partly auto-immune in nature. If we can control this auto-immune response, we can better control the patient's eczema.

It follows that if many skin conditions e.g. psoriasis are managed with a view to improving and modulating the immunological activity of the affected skin, then one would expect a topical immunomodulator such as wheatgrass extract to eventually bring about a positive result. 

The advantages of such an immunomodulator are obvious, and do actually occur. The patient usually can in due course dispense with steroid applications and oral medications, the severity of attacks diminishes over time and the skin eventually returns to a near-normal state.