Body Tissue Iron Overload & Wheat Grass - 'Wheat Grass Chelates Iron and Treats Ulcerative Colitis'

...."Iron chelation therapies are required for the treatment of iron overloaded patients; nonetheless, their side effects are also well known. We have evaluated iron-chelating activity of wheat grass extract (WHE) and its purified compound, mugineic acid in murine model with phenylhydrazine (PHZ) and dextran induced acute and chronic iron overload conditions… The efficacy of mugineic acid and WHE was compared with the potent oral iron chelator ICL670 (Exjade®). PHZ and dextran treatment followed by oral administration of WHE or mugineic acid significantly checked the rise of serum/plasma levels of iron as well as tissue iron and also, haemosiderosis in tissues. The results are highly comparable with known iron chelator ICL670. WHE and purified mugineic acid, both seem to have significant prospect to be the cheap, non-toxic, hexadentate and oral therapeutic agents to prevent or alleviate toxic iron overload in patients." ....read more:

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Wheat grass chelates iron, and has been found to treat ulcerative colitis.