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The Wheatgrass Book by Ann Wigmore. The originator of the wheatgrass juice live diet as a medical therapy. Ann Wigmore ran a wheatgrass facility in Boston until her death in the 1990's from fire and smoke inhalation.
http://www.amazon.com/Wheatgrass-Natures-Finest-Revitalize-Meyerowitz/dp/B000E48LIU/ref=acc_glance_ktch_ai_-2_6_img
Wheatgrass - Nature's Finest Medicine by Steve Meyerowitz. This book is the single most important and complete book on Wheatgrass Juice.
http://www.amazon.com/How-I-Conquered-Cancer-Naturally/dp/0895295180/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1236005636&sr=8-2
How I Conquered Cancer Naturally by Eydie Mae Hunsberger
The true story of a woman in the 1970's who had had recurrent lymph node enlargement following a lumpectomy for breast cancer. She declined chemotherapy and instead visited Ann Wigmore's facility in Boston where she learned about wheatgrass juice and a live food diet, to which she attributed her recovery.
Wheatgrass Juice - Gift of Nature by Betsy Russell Manning.
Wheat-Free Recipes and Menus by Carol Fenster Ph.D.
Abscisic acid
http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/e31/31e.htm
Biological activities: Inhibition of growth and maintenance of the dormancy of buds are the most striking effects of ABA. ABA is an efficient inhibitor of germination and occurs in high concentrations in dormant seeds.
Medical Literature
http://www.fao.org/agris/search/display.do?f=./1982/v802/US8045841.xml;US8045841
Chiu-Nan Lai et al: The inhibitions of in vitro metabolic activation of carcinogens by wheat sprout extracts. Nutrition & Cancer, 1978,1(1) Fall: 27 - 30.
CN Lai (1979) Chlorophyll: The active factor in wheat sprout extract inhibiting the metabolic activation of carcinogens in vitro. Nutrition and Cancer, 1 (3):19-21
Blood Regeneration-Thalassemmia
http://medind.nic.in/ibv/t04/i7/ibvt04i7p716.pdf
http://cellfeast.com/why-wheatgrass-juice/wheatgrass-references-and-resources
Wheat Grass Juice Reduces Transfusion Requirement in Patients with Thalassemia Major: A Pilot Study (Opens as .pdf) R.K. Marwaha et al. India.
The Study: Randomly selected patients with transfusion dependent b-thalassemia, enrolled in the thalassemia unit of the Advanced Pediatrics Center were recruited for the study. About 100ml of freshly extracted wheat grass juice was consumed daily. Patients had to be on wheat grass juice for at least one year, after the neutral period (6 months), for inclusion in the analysis. Conclusion: Consumption of wheat grass juice was found to have beneficial effect on the transfusion requirements in 50% of patients in this pilot study.
Medical Case Reports -
Breast Cancer
http://www.healingcancernaturally.com/terminal-breastcure-wheatgrass.html
Case report of two cases of terminal breast cancer cured with wheat grass. Excerpted from the book "HOW AND WHEN TO BE YOUR OWN DOCTOR" written by Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with her husband Steve Solomon and published in 1997.
Peritoneal Cancer Case Report
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15750376
J Altern Complement Med. 2005 Feb;11(1):161-5.
Bovine cartilage, coenzyme Q10, and wheat grass therapy for primary peritoneal cancer. Forgionne GA. The accepted postsurgical first-line therapy for primary peritoneal cancer has been a regime of chemotherapy. This paper reports the case of an 89-year-old female who refused chemotherapy but accepted a nutritional alternative. Results after more than 4 years of the nutritional regime have been encouraging with regards to objective and subjective measures.
