A Review: Cytochemical Study and Applications...

A Review: Cytochemical Study and Applications of Wheat Grass (Triticum aestivum)

Author Name : Sarita Singhal, Anupama Singh

ABSTRACT

Wheatgrass, the young grass of the common wheat plant Triticum aestivum. Its Component include schlorophyll and flavonoids in good amount. Wheatgrass is called the Green Blood. Chlorophyll is the green pigment of the plant that resembles the structure of the hemoglobin of the red blood cells. Dr. Hans Fischer, a German chemist and a group of associates won a Nobel Prize for this discovery. Like the human blood, chlorophyll carries energy, nutrients and oxygen to the different parts of the plants. It is the blood of the plant.

Chlorophyll in the human body also delivers nutrition and oxygen to the blood and more so, studies have shown that it can stimulate production of healthy red blood cells and prevents anemia and different blood disorders. Wheatgrass demonstrated benefits in cancer prevention and as an adjunct to cancer treatment, as well as benefits to immunological activity and oxidative stress. In clinical trials it has been observed that wheatgrass may induce coadjutants benefits to chemotherapy and may reduce chemotherapy-related side effects, in addition to aid ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid, hematological diseases, diabetes, obesity, oxidative stress and arthritis,. These trials are not effective and a number of methodological problems emerge. No conflictingcircumstance of wheatgrass have been reported, although some forms pose problems of adequacy. The popularity of wheatgrass sustain to grow. Before clinical recommendations for the public the asset seen in the clinical trials need to be proved in larger studies.

Key-Words: Cancer, Chlorophyll, Flavonoids, Hematological Diseases and Wheatgrass