What do you know of wheat grass juice as a tx for inflammatory bowel diseases?

Why, because Alt.Med is full of drug addicts, unmedicated bipolars, the actively delusional and fruitcakes?

Interesting info. My main complaint would be that n=21 is incredibly tiny. Too tiny to really draw conclusions from, particularly for something as complex and poorly understood as IBD. I wouldn't say this is a clinical relevance, or a practice that should be adopted. This is at a level of: Looks damned good. Bigger study. Now.

Browsing through the researcher's published works.

Ben Eyre seems to publish a little on the fruitcakey side of things, more opinion articles than hard research.

Goldin has published a staggering amount of stuff in the area of gastroenterology, written reviews. Extremely credible.

Most of the others are well published except:

Stamper. His only other published work: "Isolation and characterization of a Helicobacter sp. from the gastric mucosa of dolphins, Lagenorhynchus acutus and Delphinus delphis."

I'm sorry. What? It's not uncredible, or- well. I just looked it up and it made me laugh.

Seriously though. n=21 is so small that this could be a complete fluke. Get me n>50 and I'll think you've really got something.

No, you can't have your bowels removed. If it's IBS, then it's very likely that particular foods are causing trouble. You should limit your diet to the types of foods that are least irritating, to see if this helps. I'm sure this will be boring, but it will help you confirm the problem, and should alleviate much of the discomfort. Below is a link to a site that has a lot of suggestions on how to handle the condition, and what foods are the most common triggers. I think it's also worth finding a new doctor, and not letting them say they don't know what's wrong. If I were in your shoes, I would be at the doctor's office every day, until they did enough of the right kinds of tests to figure it out.

I only know that my Mother used it on urging by friends, to help fight breast cancer. Father took it in sympathy. Mother died of breast cancer after a few years, and Dad died of bowel cancer a few years later. After a major operation for prostate cancer 15 years ago I've ignored it. I've had a couple of implants when PSA rose a little over past two years, and take a daily pill made from red clover (to satisfy the First Mate). It's probably just as well we're omnivorous! But I generally avoid grass, juiced or not.

Same Argument as Az R, Small Sample Size.

LOL! I am not a doctor, but I have IBS & my daughter insisted I try it. That stuff almost killed my bowel. Never again. LOL!

Grass juice is of NO help.