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ESSIAC - A CANCER CURE In 1922 a patient told Renee Caisse about an herbal tea that had cured her of breast cancer. Nurse Caisse subsequently watched her aunt recover from inoperable cancer after taking it. She then committed her life to making the product available to the public. For eight years she ran a non-profit cancer clinic in Bracebridge, Ontario charging no fee. In spite of continual harassment for well over half a century from the conventional medical establishment, the herbal tea continues to be used with reported excellent success. In fact, when pressure mounted against her by threatened physicians, some 55,000 people signed petitions in support of her. The herbal tea mixture, composed of burdock root, slippery elm, sheep sorrel and Indian rhubarb, is supplied in dry powder form for users to make their own fresh tea from. This herbal remedy has been around for perhaps centuries. But it has only been popularized since 1922 - which is in and of itself a significant history. Though Nurse Caisse never claimed the product was a cancer cure, many of her patients argue vehemently otherwise. She recommended that the herbal preparation, she named Essiac (the reverse of her name), be taken before any cancer surgery to help prevent metastases and reoccurrence. Though not everyone is cured, it does reportedly relieve pain and improve the quality of life for many patients who do not wish to be subjected to the "cut, burn and poison" therapy promoted by modern medicine. The formula, originally compounded by the Ogibway Indians, is also recommended as a preventive. It is also reportedly effective for diabetics, increasing the ability of the pancreas to synthesize insulin. The product is easy to prepare by simply boiling and refrigerating the resulting tea. For those who have cancer, 2 ounces are recommended morning and evening. This is slowly reduced to one ounce morning and evening. After three months the dosage may be dropped to one ounce daily or one ounce every other day. The tea is also recommended for chronic fatigue syndrome, psoriasis, HIV infection and viral infections. As I have mentioned in other issues, anything can be potentially toxic at sufficient dosages. When taking products such as Essiac, be sure to follow the time tested protocols recommended by the manufacturers. If you are taking the herbal tea simply as a preventive or health enhancer, give your body a break and an opportunity to detoxify if there are sensitivities to any of the compounds in the tea, by not taking the product more than once every third day or three weeks in a row with a week's break.
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