PF pain improves or disappears after wheatgrass extract applied
Having observed some rather startling results where patients had recovered, in some cases overnight, from chronic, severely painful and disabling heel pain, I ran a small study on the internet. Some thirty PF sufferers, mainly from the United States agreed to apply a wheatgrass-based cream on their painful heels daily over a period of three months.
Around 65 percent of them had significant improvement in pain, and some had complete resolution of symptoms.
In retrospect, it would have been better to only apply the wheatgrass once weekly, because increased understanding of how the extract works, and observations of some cases where the pain ceased on one application, has significantly changed my view on dosage. We now know that when using wheatgrass extract, just a small amount and fewer applications - say once weekly - can work much better than over-treating.
I also do NOT recommend injecting steroids into patients' painful heels because that process can do more harm than good and even aggravate the problem.
Is PF really due to injury though? I don't think so. It appears to me that pain receptors in the heel have been "disconnected" from the brain, or damaged in some way - from injury, for example. Apparently, the ligands present in wheatgrass extract are able to re-connect dysfunctional peripheral pain receptors to the brain which then restores normal function, and in many cases, relieves pain.