Introduction
Before discussing how I believe my wheatgrass extract (which is considerably more potent than wheatgrass juice!) works, please view this list of conditions, that will show how effective this treatment can be. Thousands of patients around the world have sent me numerous "before and after" photos and/or written testimonials, expressing their gratitude for helping to heal or improve their medical conditions or injuries - often after failure of standard medical treatments. (Please use my contact address for free information.)
It is important to know that my wheatgrass extract is not simple wheatgrass "juice". It is in fact a highly functional, therapeutically effective liquid containing numerous ligands necessary for reactivating and reconnecting dysfunctional cellular receptors to the brain.
On this site many (80 plus) recoveries demonstrate how well the extract has worked, often rapidly, when standard medical treatments have failed. For example, venous leg ulcers, second-degree burns, and even leprosy ulcers. (There are many more in these pages.)
For instance, Figure 1 shows how effectively the extract can accelerate healing and relieve pain from a minor second-degree burn, almost instantaneously. Note that it has also kept the blister intact, (it hasn't burst), and has protected the wound from infection. This is a very minor burn compared with Figure 2, where a severe radiation burn, after application of wheatgrass extract, has healed rapidly and relieved the patient's pain. (The extract is remarkably useful in the home, car, office, medical clinic, hospital etc.)
By comparison, in Figure 2, the patient has suffered severe, deep radiation treatment burns that would, in most cases, take many weeks or even months to heal. However, as shown in Figure 2, wheatgrass extract has significantly relieved the patient's pain and rapidly restores his damaged skin.
But, how could such a "simple" plant extract so rapidly ease or eliminate pain as well as assist recovery of this burn-damaged tissue? Note also, the absence of inflammation in the picture on the right, showing the patient is pain-free and that the burn wounds have completely healed just two weeks after the accident. This is a remarkable recovery after severe radiation treatment. (View the case.)
Fig. 2. Severe 2nd degree radiotherapy burns that wheatgrass extract has healed in 2 weeks.
How wheatgrass extract appears to heal so rapidly
The extract I've used therapeutically for healing a very broad spectrum of illnesses and injuries (since 1995), contains at least 20 ligands that appear to reactivate damaged cellular receptors (present throughout the body) and restore their connection to the brain, which then responds by reactivating the patient's dysfunctional physiological functions. (See diagram).
For example, you can see in the following list of conditions how rapidly and effectively the extract has restored them almost to normal. (Please note that unlike wheatgrass extract, wheatgrass juice can not produce similar results.)
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A famous scientist proves wheatgrass extract influences gene expression
On 28th July, 2004, Professor Panayiotus (Panos) Ioannou, a famous researcher working at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, discovered that my wheatgrass extract induced fetal hemoglobin from murine mice. It achieved this by influencing gene expression of particular cellular receptors signalling the brain, like an “on/off switch” - i.e. according to need. When carefully regulated, changes occurred according to the needs of numerous biological processes. (See Figure 3. Wheatgrass inductions of clones.)
The professor reported: “Our measurements suggest a 3-5 fold increase in the production of fetal hemoglobin by the wheatgrass extract. This is a substantial increase and could certainly provide an explanation why some thalassaemic patients may derive significant benefit from it.”
"These results," he said, "albeit in vitro, increased the possibility that the beneficial effects of freshly juiced wheatgrass noted by Marwaha, et al. [an Indian hematologist], may have been due to the induction of gamma-globin chain synthesis leading to greater fetal hemoglobin content in the red cell (i.e. IT INFLUENCES GENE EXPRESSION."
"Clearly," continued the professor, "this hypothesis needs further study, but it holds the promise of some very exciting and simple therapeutic possibilities that may preclude the need for repeated blood transfusions.”
The Professor not only turned out to be correct. He also re-directed me in a very exciting therapeutic direction.
Panos, aged 54 and in his professional prime, tragically succumbed to cancer on 18 April, 2005, but he left behind his discovery of an extraordinary biological functionality of a wheatgrass extract that has since helped numerous patients in Australia and abroad, not only for overcoming hemoglobin pathology, but for numerous other common and rare conditions and injuries.
For instance, one elderly female patient was not only rapidly relieved of the pain of surgically caused reflex sympathetic dystrophy after applying a little wheatgrass extract over her painful, deeply darkened, apparently oxygen-starved forearm - but her blood circulation recovered almost immediately as did her restoration of her weakened musculature.
Strangely, Panos' scientific colleagues disagreed with his "discovery", claiming the ethanol used in the experiment was responsible for the results. However, having a very large number of patients in my records responding positively to the extract, particularly after standard treatments failed, I have no doubt that Panos was right - that the extract would improve the quality of life and longevity of many.
Wheatgrass extract appears to ease pain by blocking Substance P activity
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) prevents most drugs (other than very small molecules) from crossing into and influencing the brain. By comparison, ligands in wheatgrass extract appear to reactivate dysfunctional cellular receptors, thereby restoring their ability to signal the brain.
(Ligands are molecules that influence cell-receptor DNA to release neurotransmitters that send messages such as pain, pressure, taste, vision, touch etc., to the brain. For instance, for pain, (Figure 5), both topical and internal, the extract can prevent much of it from reaching the brain. Responses vary according to the severity of tissue damage, the patient's age, general health status, and many other factors.)
Ligands in wheatgrass extract appear to re-connect dysfunctional cellular receptors to the brain
Figure 4, shows how wheatgrass extract likely prevents pain from reaching the brain - i.e. by blocking the transmission of Substance P. Even a pin prick can cause tissue damage.
Figure 5 shows how pain cell receptors signal pain from a pin prick to the brain via the neurotransmitter, Substance P. The "victim" instantly draws his/her hand away. However, if wheatgass extract is applied to the painful area, pain is eased by it preventing Substance P from reaching the brain.
(Note, "infertile" women have conceived by taking a small dose of wheatgrass extract daily - most likely because it 'normalises' the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA) - essential for conception to occur.)
Some more examples of healing by wheatgrass extract
Achieving closure of leprosy ulcers has defied modern medicine for many years. For instance, all treatment attempts for this patient's 8-year-old leprous ulcer, (Fig. 6.) had failed completely, (View more cases.) Yet, wheatgrass extract has healed the wound in five months.
Also, in the case of psoriasis (Fig. 8.) we can see a different type of healing by wheatgrass extract.
The lesions have resisted a variety of skin applications, including 15 years of topical steroids that have severely thinned and damaged the skin's complex structure and its protective properties. But, after 2 months' treatment (twice monthly) of the wheatgrass extract, the lesions have significantly darkened and enlarged. However, this is not because the patient's skin is worsening. In fact, the wheatgrass extract appears to have "re-activated" cellular receptors around the affected areas by "notifying" the brain that blood supply to the area is insufficient and preventing healing. The brain has then responded by restoring normal blood supply to the affected areas. (The dark spots may be significantly larger, but in time they will begin to shrink as the skin regains its normal functionality.)
In due course, had the patient persevered with the extract treatment, the brown lesions would most likely have faded or disappeared completely. After all, it has taken several years for the skin to degenerate, so it will take some time to recover. This is actually a positive result. Given time, healing would almost certainly occur, but the patient decided to withdraw from treatment.
In my experience, for healing topical steroid skin disorders, (and many other conditions) treatment should be directed towards re-activating dysfunctional cellular receptors that have been destroyed or damaged by topical steroids, to the brain. It may take several months, but in time, the skin will begin to recover.
Remember, "Less wheatgrass extract is best"
The principle of using wheatgrass extract sparingly applies to the treatment of most, if not all, medical conditions and injuries - internally and externally. For example, in Figure 7, a supposedly "incurable" spider bite wound that defied all treatment for nine years, has healed after application of wheatgrass extract for three months.
Also, the 17-year-old girl in Figure 9 had suffered from psoriasis for three years, but topical steroids failed her. Wheatgrass extract however, applied once weekly, repaired her skin completely in four months. Compared with the patient in Figure 8, the remarkable response of this teenage girl's skin to wheatgrass extract, suggests that age is likely an important factor in the healing process.
Most drug treatments for psoriasis (and eczema) such as topical steroids, should be avoided. Although they may reduce inflammation, they do nothing to restore the skin's damaged structure and multiple functions. In fact, they do more damage and expose the skin to infection.
Dr. Chris Reynolds.
Wheatgrass extract removes psoriatic plaques, restoring skin almost to normal in 2 weeks
Just two weeks after wheatgrass extract was applied to the affected area, (Fig. 13.) there has been remarkable recovery of the patient's skin after two applications. The large areas of thick plaque have almost disappeared, revealing normal skin underneath. This suggests there has been a rapid "re-connection" (re-coupling) between the psoriatically damaged skin area and the brain which has then responded to help restore the patient's skin to normal. Also, in this case, the patient is young, which could also help expedite the healing process.
This case also suggests that psoriasis might develop due to dysfunction of cell receptors near the skin surface. This concept may also be the cause of other conditions such as skin disorders, hemorrhage, pain, itch etc. that often respond well to wheatgrass extract