Kombucha and Essiac

[Guest guest]

My mom has recently been diagnosed with cancer and undergone a

masectomy and we have found the lymph nodes to be involved. I have

her on Essiac and have been reading the healing qualities of

kombucha. My father made Kombucha long ago and stopped for reasons

unknown. He has alzheimers now.

I want to start brewing the kombucha tea for my families health but

I was wondering if anyone out there is taking both kombucha and

essiac and can give me some feed back about the combination of the

two.

Also, are there kombucha users out there who are fighting cancer and

are you willing to give me any of your alternative healing wisdom?

Thanks for any replys,

Liz

[Guest guest]

kombucha and essiac go very well together. And you have

several choices )

1. You can simply create KT and essiac tea separately and

then drink together.

2. you can add the dry essiac mix to already well fermented

KT making a " tincture "

3. You can add essiac mix to the sugar-tea and then ferment

together

boil water, add sugar, add black/green tea plus essiac mix.

The percentage varies upon individuals. Conventional use is

at least 25% real tea. Seep and then remove and ferment

8-14 days or longer. To reduce the sugar as completely as

possible. Here I would recommend to use dextrose (also known

as glucose or corn sugar) which is 75% as sweet as sugar but

does not develop as sour or bitter as white sugar. Dextrose

does not develop the babies as nicely as white so don't

worry about appearances.

4. You can also make the kombucha as usual and then add a

large t-bag (s) or wrap essiac mix in cheesecloth to add to

the normal kombucha and allow to ferment (without removing

the essiac) for 14+ days.

IMO, #3 above does not allow the full value of essiac into

the kombucha as it is only seeped for a few minutes and the

standard preparation of essiac is to bring to a full boil,

cool and allow to stand for 12 hours and bring back to a

second boil. By leaving the essiac t-bag in the k-ferment

the essiac is actually fermented along with the kombucha

extracting its properties.

5. another method is after you fermented k and essiac take

the mushroom and then squeeze the " drops " creating your own

kombucha-essiac extract. The advantage of the extract is one

does not need to take as much (of an otherwise bitter brew)

and the convenience. I offer this extract on my website. I

use White Tea (noted for its anti-cancer properties) 1/2

ounce per gallon size brew (3 quarts), 1 1/2 cups organic

sugar, 1 ounce essaic(dry mix) and allow to ferment for 30

days. I then take the mushroom and extract the drops.

The Kombucha House (Australia) and Harald Tietze (kombucha

author and herbalist) have experimented with essiac and

kombucha as well as essiac and paw-paw leaves in similar

fashions as described above. According to Harald Tietze

paw-paw (papaya) can be used in any number of ways with

kombucha. I have used the skin, fruit and seeds (and the

leaves) in various combinations with kombucha. I am still

experimenting with the combinations which all look good so

far. In the near future I would like to have the batches

tested but first I need to define what to look for. (each

test is about $170+). My 7 year old daughter who loves

papaya and was happy until I dropped the beautiful cut up

pieces into the kombucha and then she went ughhhhh!

The kombucha paypaya taste OK, the kombucha essiac tea

_taste_not so good_. (k-essiac drops are OK)

The combination of essiac and kombucha according to

Traditional Chinese medicine is good. Both work along

similiar lines. Essiac purges the blood of toxins and

kombucha breaks the stagnation and detoxifies. Both excrete

the toxins out through the urine, essiac also excretes

toxins through the stool. For a TCM prescrective of essiac

see http://www.happyherbalist.com/essiac_tea.htm So the

common warning is to drink plenty of fresh pure water when

taking KT or essiac. Recommendation is to drink 1/2 of your

body weight in ounces of fresh pure water. So if you weigh

100 pounds drink 50 ounces of water. (1/3 of that in the

morning.) If you drink coffee or carbonated beveages add one

pint water per cup of that bad stuff.

one note is that essiac (or kombucha) needs no perservatives

when used in any of the above described methods. (essiac by

itself will spoil quickly) It is good to keep refrigerated

as the combinations are still a live probiotic, and possible

cross-containamtion should be guarded against.

Ed Kasper L.Ac., Acupuncturist & Medicinal Herbalist

http://HappyHerbalist.com eddy@...

Kombucha and Essiac

My mom has recently been diagnosed with cancer and undergone

a

masectomy and we have found the lymph nodes to be involved.

I have

her on Essiac and have been reading the healing qualities of

kombucha. My father made Kombucha long ago and stopped for

reasons

unknown. He has alzheimers now.

I want to start brewing the kombucha tea for my families

health but

I was wondering if anyone out there is taking both kombucha

and

essiac and can give me some feed back about the combination

of the

two.

Also, are there kombucha users out there who are fighting

cancer and

are you willing to give me any of your alternative healing

wisdom?

Thanks for any replys,

Liz

[Guest guest]

Liz, I always hate to mention stuff like this, because A. I have no

testimonials from myself or anyone else and B. I hate to have people think I am

nuts

or into new-agey illogical mumbojumbo. However, still I have come across one

really interesting thing about both cancer and alzheimers which may have some

validity as hard as it is to believe. The ideas come from Dr. Hulda

and maybe you've already tried her theories and debunked them but she says

specifically about alzheimers that excess of aluminum in the system have been

found in all of her patients with the disease and that they can be given a

chemical to help the body expel it from their system and can often make a full

recovery. I hate bringing this stuff up because of possible false hopes or just

people thinking I'm being ridiculous and getting offended by it, but I know

I would try to put the theory to test if my mother or father had one of these

diseases... or myself. She was very confident about being able to cure

cancer and alzheimers in most cases. Also Dr. Lorraine Day I've heard is a real

medical doctor from more recent times than Dr. and actually had a large

tumor in the breast and says she cured herself of it and puts out self-curing

instructional books/videos that can be easily found. It is hard to argue

with someone who actually can prove that they cured themselves of a supposedly

incurable cancer. Don't think I'm nuts, I'm just mentioning it in the slight

chance that you've not heard of them and may try them and have them work.