Wheatgrass halted my heavy bleeding overnight, boosts red blood cell count

I stopped the RS diet because I thought I was doing ok on GP defined diet to boost red blood cells and ferritin.

This quickly backfired as all my cheat food began to cause inflammation. Adding the legumes back in after flaring was not working because food was going thru me too quickly. Shortened transit time. In all that blood I saw the bean matter. It was supposed to travel slowly and ferment the RS - resistant starch into SCFA specifically butyrate but yet it lay there as a sure sign I need longer transit time. This RS fermentation was not going to happen until I got out of the deep flare. I vowed never to take prednisone again nor see my GI doc. GI office called me -talk about irony. I ignored the call.

I noticed a tub of discounted 'wheat grass' in my kitchen as I scrambled to cope with the onset of depression as my situation worsened. I had picked it up simply because it was on the clearance table at Vitamin Shoppe and they gave me a $100 shopping spree. This was over a month ago.

I figured how could things get worse so I downed the powder mixed in water. This was akin to mowing your lawn then shoving your face in the grass clippings bag and munching away. Pretty gross.

Abruptly the bleeding stopped. I began googling this 'wheat grass' stuff. It turns out Ann Wigmore is the person who promoted/popularized it years ago and guess what ? She had ULCERATIVE COLITIS and claimed it cured it ( at least controlled it because she never stopped taking wheatgrass ). She claimed and others do as well that it restored hair color.

More importantly it resolves anemia and mine has been stubborn. Talk about killing two birds with one stone. Nice 1-2 punch to getting healthy.

Flare stop :

+Wheat Grass
+Librax to slow transit time
+Mebeverine to slow transit time
+Low carb ( ok lunch was free and I had the big cookie AND the big brownie )
+Salmon,tuna,chicken,steak,spinach
+Navy beans, Cold Pasta, Unripe bananas
-No prednisone this time
-No GI doc this time
-No blood thinner at this time

Cortisol mgmt :

+Pregnenolone
+Adrenal Glandular
+Licorice
-Valium 0 to .25 pill only when very stressed out

That is my list of weapons to get out of this flare ASAP and remain in good health.

The one item that had an abrupt profound impact was the wheatgrass.

www.wheatgrass.wheatgrasshome.com/Dr.html

Post Edited (aguywithuc) : 5/15/2013 10:02:13 AM (GMT-6)

Jaysus, Killcolitis. Everytimes some mentions some obscure supplement or whatever, you have already tried it somehow.

Did you try everything that moved? lol

this isn't obscure - there's a lot written about wheatgrass and uc.

Good suggestions. I may try wheatgrass again at some point - I just had trouble juicing it but the powder may be better.

I think you mentioned your UC being the result of cipro? Could you go into detail a bit more about that?

Levi said...
I tried it a while back-or barley grass rather. I remember reading it was superior to wheat grass but can't remember the details.

I do know there was a Japanese UC-barley grass study. It was extremely small, but the barley grass patients responded better than the pred patients.

I have that in my walk in pantry which is like the hall of fame for snake oil. Let me check.

OK this is not barley-grass. This is what the study was about GBF - Germinated Barley Foodstuff. Mine is from Japan - Mai Ya. It is brown and comes with small scoup. No benefit 24 hours later so I gave up.

Wheat grass powder - wow, now that ( and probably barley grass ) worked as fast as prednisone.

i was at the health food store and remembered this thread. they have a juice bar and i tried a shot of wheat grass. you're right. it's freakin gross but i already feel healthier!!! it's not too bad though since you chug it so quickly. i could get used to taking it.

i looked at the powder when i was there and a 15 serving pack was 25 bucks. it's not cheap, but if it works, then i might take it. need to read about it more though.

Here is the 02 wheat grass uc study.\

Old Mike

Dont know why this link does not work,anyhow use google search this.

wheat grass juice in the treatment of active distal ulcerative colitis,it will be the second hit where is says PDF.

http://www.grass2juice.nl/artikelen/Onderzoek%20tarwegras%20bij%20darmaandoening.pdf

Post Edited (Old Mike) : 5/18/2013 5:38:53 AM (GMT-6)

derby county said...
hey, great post...

i think my problem is everything is coming through my system to fast.

Thanks
Tom

That has always been my problem. Unable to find foods that slow it down I resorted to the following :

+Librax to slow transit time
+Mebeverine to slow transit time
+Immodium

These things work great, so great in fact that I start taking stimulants again while flaring and a tug of war ensues. Weekend is here now so I will get through today with just a little caffeine starter and then nothing.

Ask your doc for Librax it slows the gut contractions - Peristaltic wave action.

Mebeverine does this too but is not marketed in the US so I buy it online.

"Mebeverine is an antimuscarinic. It belongs to a group of compounds called musculotropic antispasmodics. These compounds act directly on the gut muscles at the cellular level to relax them. This relieves painful muscle spasms of the gut, without affecting its normal motility. Mebeverine is used to relieve symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome and related intestinal disorders that are the result of spasms in the intestinal muscles. These include colicky abdominal pain and cramps, diarrhoea alternating with constipation and flatulence (wind).

Mebeverine is also an inhibitor of calcium-depot replenishment. Therefore, it has dual mode of action which normalizes the small bowel motility."

Over the counter Immodium also slows the transit time, all of these need to be used at the first sign of rapid transit time, usually once very deep into a flare they are no match for the disease. They do work great right now allowing me to commute downtown and sit in long meetings. The wheatgrass helps with the bleeding and the pregnenolone should over time ramp up the adrenals to produce more cortisol. Adrenal Glandular is raw materials for your adrenals and probably some cortisol since it is actually ground up bovine adrenals.

it needs to be fresh or flash frozen really. it's been used for a very long time in ayurveda and we were told we must juice it right before she drinks it. can't oxidize.

Just to mark when I start,took first teaspoon wheat grass 10 minutes ago. Does not taste too bad.
Some people vomit from it,no reaction yet.
OM

For anyone who has tried barley grass, how does that taste compare to wheat grass?

Since I was near a juice bar yesterday I got a 2-shot of wheatgrass and put it in a cooler for later. (Didn't want any reaction while on the road). Took a shot last night and nothing bad happened.

I don't have bleeding so just wanted to try it again after many years. This time it tasted sweet, how is that possible? Taste buds changed due to using only honey?
I won't be able to do a trial on myself since the juice bar is an hour away but it sure didn't taste bad.
I thought it would taste like the other "green" juices I take like collard but wheatgrass was much nicer.

Here's my update: after taking 1 oz. last night with absolutely no ill effects I decided to take the second oz. this morning (when I was due to volunteer with teens). O-M-G my colon did not like it in an IBS kind of way. Multiple BM's that I had to throw all my OTC meds at to stop.

So, I would still take wheatgrass if it were available but not in the morning, my active colon time.
I'm almost positive the reaction was due to wheatgrass because I only ate "safe" foods last night and this morning.

I had a lot of energy all day even though I didn't get any food (just water) from 7am to 4 pm.