Wheatgrass Saves Boys Life As Told By Tony Hodge From Oscar Juicers

This month Tony Hodge of Wheatgrass New Zealand wants to tell the world about the wonders of wheatgrass by relating the amazing story of how wheatgrass spray saved a little boy’s life, as told to him by Dr Chris Reynolds, M.B., B.S. who has been working in India. Here is what happened.

Picture a tiny hovel on the outskirts of a dusty provincial town in Madhya Pradesh State in India, home to an impoverished family of six. It has dirt floors, no sanitation, no beds (they sleep on the floor) and no electricity. There is a lighted kerosene cooker in the centre of the room. Five year old Pawan runs into the room and knocks over the cooker which explodes and drenches him in flames. He suffers severe burns to 40% of his body.

He is taken to a Burns Unit in a large private hospital that philanthropically admits a limited number of impoverished burns victims for free treatment. However, there is a catch. The burn must be healed within a week (an impossible task in most cases), after which the patient will be sent home. As he is from a poor family, follow up treatment is highly unlikely. The unhygienic surroundings and high risk of infection will threaten his survival. Many of these children (and adults)usually don’t even make it to a hospital, and die at home from their infected, untreated wounds.

Visiting Pawan’s bedside on day four, the hospital surgeon told Dr Reynolds, “His only chance (of survival) “is for me to put a skin graft over the burn. But the wound is infected, so the graft won’t take. Also, I won’t have enough donor skin even if I could do it. Do you think the wheatgrass spray would help? He must be discharged in three days”.

Having seen wheatgrass heal many kinds of wounds, including some very bad burns, Dr Reynolds said he was sure it would. At the surgeon’s request, Dr Reynolds sprayed a small area at one corner of the infected area of full thickness skin loss. The following day, the surgeon called to say that overnight the infection had cleared up, the wound surface was no longer losing fluid and a graft would not be necessary. Two days later his burns had recovered so well that he was discharged to return to the Outpatient Department for dressing changes.

It would be fair to say that the wheatgrass spray saved this little boy’s life. Dr Reynolds will soon return to India to continue sharing his knowledge of wheatgrass healing with clinical staff at the hospital and reports that the surgeon is about to run a clinical trial using the wheatgrass spray for serious burns.

For more information on wheatgrass please visit the website at http://www.wheatgrass.co.nz.