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Wheatgrass At Work
| Wheatgrass has remarkable healing properties as these entries will testify. Your comments are welcome. Thank you. Dr. Chris Reynolds. |
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Earache isn't just a pain for the patient - usually a young child - but for parents, siblings and where the buck stops. The doctor in emergency or on a home visit at three in the morning.What can we doctors do? Not much. Well, that is not necessarily true. Analgesia, such as paracetamol; antibiotics to protect the middle ear from infection; antihistamines to unblock the inner ear canal (eustachian tube) to allow any pus in the middle ear to drain. What then? We hand the child back to the parents in the hope the pain might settle and they and their child might get some sleep.There is another, more effective way. I will illustrate with a case history. The child was a feverish, crying, miserable 6 year old boy holding a hand over his ear. He had been in pain for three days. Examination revealed a very red, hemorrhagic and blistered eardrum. He had a classic bullous myringitis which is can be caused by various bacteria and viruses. (See pic. Large blister and several smaller ones on the eardrum. Ouch, that hurts!)  I put a few drops of wheatgrass extract in the boy's ear and chatted to his mother as I jotted down some notes. About ten minutes later, I asked the boy to get down off the couch. But there was no response - he was fast asleep! When he awoke, his pain had all but disappeared. The following day, the eardrum was no longer blistered and the inflammation had almost gone. There is very little if anything the pharmaceutical industry has to offer for earache, but wheatgrass can often do an excellent job of myringitis as well as ease the pain of middle ear infection i.e. otitis media. How does it work? Most likely via growth factor activation. Among many other bioactivities, growth factors are responsible for reducing inflammation: a combination of redness, heat, pain and loss of function. Wheatgrass worked amazingly well in reducing this boy's inflamed eardrum. Dr. Chris Reynolds. M.B.,B.S. Dr Wheatgrass Information | Wednesday, March 11, 2009 | Comments (0) | Permalink
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