Introduction
The wheatgrass extract I have used successfully since 1995 for treating numerous medical conditions and injuries, is therapeutically remarkable. For example, in this list of conditions, you can see how effectively and rapidly this (far from) "simple" treatment heals or "normalises" numerous skin and internal conditions when standard medical treatments have failed. It is indeed an excellent skin "normaliser" and an excellent whole body health maintainer.
This extract is far more complex and influential than simple wheatgrass "juice". For instance, it contains at least 20 ligands that are essential for maintaining connection between cellular receptors throughout the body, to the brain. In other words, the extract helps maintain the body's equilibrium, which in turn, keeps us healthy.
To give you some idea as to how remarkably well wheatgrass extract works, (often after standard medical treatments have failed), view these examples: venous leg ulcers, second-degree burns, and leprosy ulcers - for which there is no effective treatment.
For example, in Figure 1, the extract has healed and relieved pain after a minor second-degree burn. Note how the blister has remained intact, (it hasn't burst), yet it has protected the wound from infection. But, this is only a minor burn compared with Figure 2, where severe radiation burns have rapidly healed and pain eliminated.
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 has rapidly restored his severely damaged skin.
But, how could such a "simple" plant extract so rapidly ease or eliminate pain and assist recovery of the patient's severely burn-damaged tissue? Also, note the absence of inflammation in the picture on the right, the patient's absence of pain and that the burn wounds have completely healed just two weeks after the accident. Clearly, 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 - often rapidly
The extract contains at least 20 ligands that appear to reactivate damaged or dysfunctional cellular receptors by re-connecting them to the brain. As a result, numerous dysfunctional physiological processes are restored. (See diagram).
For instance, in the list of conditions below, you can see how rapidly and effectively the extract has returned them, often to normal. Plain wheatgrass juice alone can not achieve such remarkable results.)
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Famous scientist: Wheatgrass extract influences gene expression
On 28th July, 2004, Professor Panayiotus (Panos) Ioannou, a famous scientist at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, expressed his amazement that the wheatgrass extract I used therapeutically, induced production of fetal hemoglobin by 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 occured 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 strongly supported my own theory on how wheatgrass heals.
Panos, aged 54 and in his professional prime, tragically succumbed to cancer on 18 April, 2005. However, 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 to overcome hemoglobin pathology, but assisting recovery of a remarkably broad spectrum of common and rare conditions and injuries.
For some reason, Panos' scientific colleagues failed to support his "discovery", stating that ethanol 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 eventually win the day - which it does every day for thousands of patients worldwide.
How does wheatgrass extract ease pain and heal so many medical conditions and injuries?
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 that then reconnect to 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), topical and internal, the extract can prevent some or all 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.
For instance, in Figure 4 under "Dysfunctional", it appears that damaged connections to the brain from organs, e.g. lungs, intestines, liver, heart etc. may lead to dysfunction or failure of numerous organs.
Apparently, wheatgrass extract accelerates wound recovery and assists restoration of dysfunctional organs (e.g. heart, liver, uterus, lungs, intestine etc.) by reconnecting them to the brain via ligand binding.
In Figure 5, we see how cell receptors signal pain from a pin prick in the skin to the brain via the neurotransmitter, Substance P. The "victim" instantly withdraws his/her hand, but if wheatgass extract is applied to the painful area, pain eases quickly because of the negative effect of Substance P blocking it from reaching the brain.
Note: Many "infertile" women have conceived after taking a small dose of wheatgrass extract daily, possibly by its 'normalisation' of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA).
Some clinical examples of healing, likely via ligand-binding by wheatgrass extract
Effective closure of leprosy ulcers has defied "modern medicine" for many years. For example, all attempts at treating this patient's 8-year-old leprous ulcer, (Fig. 6.) had failed completely. (View more cases.) However, wheatgrass extract has healed this patient's wound in five months.
Also, in the case of psoriasis below (Fig. 8.) we see a different response achieved after application of wheatgrass extract.
The psoriatic 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. However, after 2 months' treatment (twice monthly) of the wheatgrass extract, the lesions have significantly darkened and enlarged, but not because the patient's skin is worsening. Instead, the extract appears to have "re-activated" cellular receptors around the affected areas by "notifying" the brain (from cellular receptors) that blood supply to the area is insufficient and interfering with healing. The brain then has responded by restoring normal blood supply to the affected areas. (The dark spots may be significantly larger, but I believe this is because the skin has regained its normal blood circulation.)
I also think that the brown lesions would have faded in time as dysfunctional cellular receptors regained their functionality. On the right, it appears that the blood circulation to his dorsal skin has increased significantly, in which case, the darkened lesions would probably have disappeared had the treatment continued. It appears that after several years of darkened, degenerated skin lesions, we're actually seeing recovery.
In my many years' experience of using the wheatgrass extract therapeutically, for instance, healing topical steroid skin damage, (and many other conditions) treatment should be concentrated on re-connecting dysfunctional cellular receptors that have been destroyed or damaged by topical steroids, to the brain. This may take several months, but eventually the skin begins to recover.
Remember, "Less is best" when using wheatgrass extract
Using wheatgrass extract sparingly applies when treating 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 completely, three months after commencement of wheatgrass extract application.
Also, the young woman in Figure 9 had suffered from psoriasis for three years, but topical steroids failed her. Then, once wheatgrass extract was applied once weekly, her skin recovered completely in four months. Compared with the patient in Figure 8, the remarkable response of this teenage girl's skin to wheatgrass extract is remarkable.
Last, but not least, most drug treatments for psoriasis (and eczema) such as topical steroids, should, in my view, be avoided. Although they may reduce inflammation, they do nothing to restore the skin's damaged structure and multiple dysfunctions. In fact, they do more damage and expose the skin to infection.
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