Re: Essiac Tea Re: Karima

May 3, 2005

Thank you for that valuable info on the tea I am so into teas. And useing the

loose tea instea of the bags it seems to be fresher that way. Can u get it in

your local store? Or where can I purchase it? Lori

Barbara Gari karima1@...> wrote:This is a really great article on Essiac

Tea. I just couldn't pass the

opportunity to send it along.

Karima

Rene Caisse treated people with cancer with an herbal tea she called

Essiac. Today the similar formula is called the Ojibwa herbal formula

(Ojibwa tea). Dr. Glum records Rene Caisse's life's story in the

book Calling of an Angel.

Rene Caisse, RN, dedicated her entire life to helping people with

cancer. For over 50 years she made her healing tea in her own kitchen.

She called it Essiac - Caisse reversed.

She administered her product in her clinic in Bracebridge, Canada, and a

few US clinics. Rene refused to reveal her formula to any authorities

during her lifetime. This fueled horrendous political fights as the

medical authorities tried everything to obtain the miraculous formula.

Her life was a constant battle for advancing people's quality of life.

Dr. Glum recorded her tumultuous experience in the book " The

Calling of an Angel. " His declared position is: " I believe that

information should be in the hands of the public.

People should have the right to make their own decisions about whether

or not they will drink the Essiac tea (Ojibwa tea today).

My goal in this book is simple: I want to tell the story of this

ordinary woman's extraordinary life and share the knowledge of Essiac

(Ojibwa) so that people can make their own informed decisions about what

their future should be.

I don't pretend to have all the answers about how and why Essiac works.

My book documents countless accounts of miraculous results during

Caisse's life.

We encourage you to read the whole book. There are 2 alternatives:

Read the book on the Internet (the e-book) by clicking " The Calling of

an Angel " button on the home page.

To order our hard copy, go to our " Order " page.

This is a brief summary on Rene Caisse's life story as presented in " The

Calling of an Angel " . The quotes are excerpts from the book. The herbal

" Ojibwa " tea we provide, is prepared according to Rene Caisse's original

formula.

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" Always, in all cultures, there was what might be called " living proof "

medicinal value of plants long before there was " scientific proof " and

acceptance. Living proof, of course, is not acceptable to the scientific

community. Not even the testimony of ordinary individuals, sworn to

oath, meets the rigorous standards of scientific proof.

But no matter what happens in the scientific world, living proof will

be what passes from person to person and prevents Essiac from dying out

altogether in the modern world. "

Rene Caisse " learned " her formula for her miraculous plant tea from an

old Native American healer. In 1977, the editors of Homemaker's, a

nationally distributed Canadian magazine based in Toronto, heard an

awesome story:

" An 88-year-old nurse from Bracebridge had been successfully treating

terminally ill cancer patients for 50 years with her secret herbal

formula. "

" Rene maintained was that Essiac caused regression in some cancerous

tumors, the total destruction of others, prolonged life in most cases

and - in virtually every case - significantly diminished the pain and

suffering of cancer patients. The results were astonishing. She

described diminished results in cases when patients had received

radiation. Also, Essiac has been proven ineffective when the organs have

been destroyed: " No, I did not say that. If the organs are destroyed,

yes. I cannot build new bodies. "

" Her patients swore by her. They were devoted. Men and women who

believed she cured them of cancer told their friends and families, wrote

letters to doctors and politicians, swore affidavits, testified before

the Canadian parliament and pleaded with Rene Caisse to supply them with

more Essiac when they needed it. Some husbands and wives of patients who

died wrote Rene letters thanking her profoundly for making life easier -

free of pain - and longer for their loved ones.

All through Canada and in parts of the United States to day, there are

people of all ages who are absolutely convinced that Essiac saved their

lives or the lives of friends and loved ones. But you can't buy it in

any supermarket. "

" Essiac's powers as a pain reliever for cancer patients are nothing

short of phenomenal. In sixty years of personal accounts, the easing of

agony and an increased sense of well being - often to the point of

getting through the day without narcotics - is one of the predominant

themes.

In Rene's experience, Essiac proved itself as nontoxic, and without

harmful side effects. " Compared to that, almost all investigational

cancer drugs are highly toxic.

" Over The last decade, more than 150 experimental drugs have been given

to tens of thousands of cancer patients under the sponsorship of the US

Federal Government's National Cancer Institute. Many of these drugs have

come from a list of highly toxic industrial chemicals, including

pesticides, herbicides and dyes... While all anticancer drugs can cause

side effects among some of those who take them, the experimental drugs -

along with leading to hundreds of deaths - have elicited a nightmarish

list of serious adverse reactions, including kidney failure, liver

failure, heart failure, respiratory distress, destruction of bone marrow

so the body can no longer make blood, brain damage, paralysis, seizure,

coma, and visual hallucinations.

In Rene's opinion, " Chemotherapy should be a criminal offense, " she told

one reporter.

Rene Caisse's files are filled with letters from people all over North

America testifying to lifesaving experiences with Essiac. She didn't

charge a fee for her services. She accepted only voluntary contributions

in the form of fruits, vegetables or eggs, as often as not - from those

who could afford to offer them, and she didn't turn away people who

couldn't make any payment at all.

" Rene Caisse lived her whole life in modest circumstances while

rejecting offers of vast sums of money to reveal her formula. She

refused to reveal her formula to people who wanted to help her; she

refused to reveal her formula to powerful institutions that demanded it

before they would consider legitimating Essiac.

What Rene Caisse wanted was to heal the ill and guarantee the

legalization of Essiac for all, yet her intransigent refusal to budge

from secrecy about the formula cost her - and us - dearly. "

" Rene's deep fears that played an important role in her refusal to

release the formula until after the governing bodies of medicine and law

would admit that it had merit:

Namely, that once the herbs are publicly identified, these inexpensive

and widely available plants will be placed on the federal " controlled

substances " roster - like some dangerous drug - suddenly become very

difficult - and illegal - to acquire. "

It seemed that Rene took her formula to her grave.

Authorities burned all her found records in steel drums. Years latter,

it was discovered that Rene left a copy of her formula and other records

with a trusted woman:

" Eventually she admitted to me that Rene had left her a copy of the

formula. As gently as possible I began trying to persuade her to trust

me with it. Rene had freely given it to this woman, who had guarded it

with complete inflexibility for years. "

Dr. Glum got involved with a formula based on Caisse's recipe. We

call it " Ojibwa "

(The Original Ojibwa tea formula).

" Rene Caisse was a sweet woman who gave her best and saw the worst. She

was surrounded most of her life with the pain and suffering of others.

She lived under siege much of the time, with a legion of supporters who

saw her as a saint and powerful enemies who wanted her arrested for

practicing medicine without a license.

She became so fearful and paranoid about arrest that she sometimes had

to turn away dying people who were pleading with her to help them. But

more often, she found ways to help the people who came to her, even

total strangers who had nothing to offer her.

She said once about her situation: " I was always just one jump ahead of

a policeman. We were right across the street from the town jail and the

keeper used to joke that he was saving a cell for me. "

" The blessing of Essiac brought a curse for Rene Caisse: Her life was

never her own. "

" Rene's account is true. The older people in the Bracebridge area still

have vivid memories of Nurse Caisse and her clinic, and all the patients

coming from far and near. They still talk about friends or neighbors or

aunts or uncles or parents who were saved or at least helped and

relieved of pain by Nurse Caisse. They speak of her with great fondness

and respect-even reverence. "

We strongly encourage you to read Dr. Glum's enlightening book Calling

of an Angel, and use the Ojibwa tea to help your body heal itself.

http://www.cancer-solutions.net/DrGlumInterview.htm

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Cancer patients saved by alternative therapies are forcing doctors to

think again ...

By Marnie Ko,

Report Newsmagazine,

December 4, 2000,

One year ago, Scrymgeour appeared to be on his deathbed. The

long-time Calgary business-man had all but lost a 10-year battle

against prostate cancer.

Conventional chemotherapy and radiation

treatments had been tried, had ultimately failed, and the doctors had

given up. For the first time in his life, Mr. Scrymgeour was an

invalid, wheelchair-bound, barely able to move his legs and dependent on

round-the-clock nursing.

But in what many assumed were his dying

weeks, Mr. Scrymgeour learned of a herbal tea dismissed as quackery by

most oncologists.

He began drinking it, and has been taking it twice a

day for the past year. Today, at 79, Mr. Scrymgeour is out of the

wheelchair and playing golf twice a week. Blood tests indicate his

cancer cell-count is way down. He credits the tea, named Essiac, for

his second chance at life.

Scrymgreour

Scrymgreour active again.

Dr. Ramsum

Dr. Ramsum: Ready to try alternatives.

Two years ago Gaetano Montani was diagnosed with small-cell lung

cancer and given a life expectancy of just six months, even under

aggressive conventional treatment. " We were told that this type of

cancer was the most vigorous, and was inoperable, " says his wife,

Carolyn. " My husband's chance of survival was especially terrible--he

had already suffered burns in a fire, two previous heart attacks,

open-heart surgery, a stroke and gallbladder surgery. "

But soon after,

the Indiana couple's youngest daughter brought home a box of Essiac.

The cancer specialists more or less shrugged their shoulders, so Mr.

Montani began drinking the tea.

Like Mr. Scrymgeour, he kept right on

drinking it. Soon after, says Mrs. Montani, his cancer was gone.

Cancer continues to exact a grim toll, but there are a remarkable

number of stories of people suffering its worst forms who recover from

it, apparently thanks to alternative therapies such as Essiac. Their

scientific foundation remains shaky. Alternative therapies range from

entirely unknown to barely studied though promising to utterly

discredited.

Still, Canadians and others eagerly embrace almost

anything offering hope against this array of usually deadly diseases.

There will be more than 130,000 new cases of cancer diagnosed in

Canada in 2000, and 65,000 will succumb to cancer this year.

A random survey of Ontario breast cancer patients, published in the

Journal of Clinical Oncology, found that 67% of respondents were using

alternative medicine. Americans are estimated to be spending a

staggering $27 billion per year on alternative cancer treatments.

The alternatives include radical diet changes, green tea, a derivative

of

shark cartilage, and a host of herbal remedies. The two most credible

alternatives appear to be Essiac and a compound known as 714X. Both,

interestingly, were developed by Canadians, the first by a nurse in

the 1920s, the second by an ostracized Quebec physician in the '70s.

Many certified oncologists continue to be disturbed at the scarcity of

methodologically rigorous studies of alternative remedies. But to

cancer sufferers, these are merely pedantic objections. A major

attraction is that the alternatives are far less physically harsh than

the three conventional approaches--surgery, radiotherapy and

chemotherapy, which critics have dubbed the " slash, burn and poison

trio. " When mixed with hope and desperation, plus the powerful

testimonials of those who say they were cured, the alternatives have

almost irresistible appeal.

Although these remedies exude a faint odour of mysticism, the people

who take them seem to be sensible enough. Mr. Scrymgeour, for one,

made his name in Alberta's oil patch, an industry not without its own

purveyors of false hopes and costly tricks. Several decades ago, he

became an entrepreneurial legend, founding and running Westburne

International Industries until 1986, later retiring to Bermuda and New

York. He is also a major patron of Vancouver's Fraser Institute, and a

part owner of this magazine.

Mr. Scrymgeour's comfortable retirement routine was brutally

interrupted, however, with the news he had cancer. He found out on

Valentine's Day 1990, and it inspired in him an instant resolve: he

was determined to beat it.

He was able to obtain the best of conventional treatment, and it did

initially lower his count of PSA, prostate-specific antigen, the key

measure of the activity of cancer cells in his body. But the cancer

returned last year with a severity that convinced doctors Mr.

Scrymgeour had little hope. In the 11th hour, a friend told him about

a Canadian nurse who had reportedly healed thousands of ostensibly

incurable cancer victims using four common herbs. Today, Mr.

Scrymgeour's PSA count is almost non-existent, and he is fully

satisfied there is only one reason: his twice-daily dosage of Essiac

tea.

Essiac users are now estimated to number in the thousands across North

America. One user's wife saved what she believed is physical proof of

its effectiveness. Schmidt was diagnosed with bladder cancer

in 1985. The Torontonian had nine operations to excise tumours from

his bladder. At one point, he was comatose, on life support and

suffering a severe infection, pneumonia and kidney failure, all while

requiring another tumour operation. In short, he was considered a

near-hopeless case.

Mr. Schmidt's wife Hannelore in desperation sought out a naturopath,

who recommended Essiac. After three weeks of drinking the tea, black

chunks of tumour and skin began passing with his urine. Mrs. Schmidt

preserved 40 pieces in a formaldehyde-filled jar (see photo above).

Soon doctors could find no more cancer. Mr. Schmidt recovered to

thoroughly enjoy his early 80s, gardening and puttering about the

couple's home. At 86 he suffered a stroke and passed away peacefully,

cancer-free. " Essiac brought him many good, happy years, " recalls Mrs.

Schmidt.

The family of Luke s will likely put it similarly some day,

although Mr. s is still very much alive. Four years ago, the

then-17-year-old son of a South African chiropractor developed a giant

cell tumour on his left knee, which grew so rapidly it destroyed most

of his upper tibia. Surgeons removed the tumour and rebuilt the boy's

tibia. Four months later, Mr. s' body rejected his bone graft

and the tumour returned with a vengeance, breaking through the skin

and growing into a hideous, fist-sized mass. Mr. s' father grew

disillusioned with oncologists, ignoring their advice to amputate his

son's leg and begin massive chemotherapy.

Then the elder s heard about 714X. Developed by Dr. Gaston

Naessens, a French-born scientist living in Rock Forest, Que., 714X is

a mixture of nitrogen, camphor and mineral salts. It is administered

via into the lymph node in the right side of the groin. Working on the

lympatic system and supplying nitrogen to cells, 714X is believed to

aid the body's defence systems.

Now 77, Dr. Naessens also claims to have invented a revolutionary,

dark-field microscope he calls a somatoscope, which permits the unique

and unprecedented observation of living blood. This, he says, led to

his discovering a primitive biological entity which he takes to be a

precursor to DNA. He labelled it a somatid, and after comparing the

blood of healthy and diseased individuals, noticed that its life cycle

provides an uncanny indicator of the state of the body's immune

system. Dr. Naessens says he can predict the onset of degenerative

disease up to two years before other noticeable symptoms, in time for

possibly preventative changes to diet or lifestyle.

At Dr. Naessens' lab, the somatoscope vividly showed Mr. s'

blood trying to fight off a ravenous cancer. He began 714X treatment

immediately. The changes were swift and astonishing: the tumour

disappeared. Subsequent X-rays documented 100% bone regeneration,

considered medically impossible. Today, at 21, Mr. s attends

university and rows on his school's team. He gives all the credit to

Dr. Naessens' therapy.

Alternative therapies have stirred up a host of controversies, some of

them remarkably bitter, among both competing purveyors and an

increasingly divided medical community. A growing number of doctors

appear willing to roll some alternatives into their anti-cancer

regimen, if only because it makes patients feel better. Fink,

president and chief executive of Beth Israel Medical Center in New

York, explains, " It would be silly for doctors and hospitals to ignore

something that will be a large part of healthcare for years to come. "

Nearly one-third of U.S. hospitals with 500 or more patient beds now

offer alternative therapies.

In Canada, some oncologists are joining forces with holistic

practitioners to research popular herbal treatments. One example is

Vancouver's Tzu Chi Institute for Complementary and Alternative

Medicine. The institute works closely with oncologists from the Fraser

Valley Cancer Centre, blending conventional medicine with alternative

therapies.

Such alliances will also at last help subject alternative therapies to

rigorous study. Dr. Darlene Ramsum, Tzu Chi's research manager,

reports two now underway. A Phase I study on 714X has just been

completed, revealing no adverse reactions. Patients are currently

being enrolled for a Phase I trial of Flor-Essence, a herbal tea

similar to Essiac. Half the participants will receive palliative

chemotherapy while drinking Flor-Essence. The rest will undergo

chemotherapy and receive a placebo. All have late-stage colo-rectal

cancer. In January, the College of Naturopathic Medicine in Toronto

will begin the first human clinical trials of Essiac.

Two years ago, a task force of the Canadian Breast Cancer Research

Initiative reviewed available laboratory research into six popular

alternative therapies, including Essiac and 714X. The review

discovered that each of the herbs in Essiac has been shown to trigger

biological activity, defined as an effect on the structure or function

of cells, tissues or organs. Burdock root injected into mice with

transplanted solid tumours, for instance, appeared to inhibit the

tumours. The review noted that much of the research was limited to

individual herbs, which may not capture the true " synergistic

interaction " of herbal blends.

Encouraging results came recently for 714X as well, although prying

the results out of the researcher who conducted the study required

litigation. Dr. Naessens' company, Cerbe Industries, funded the study,

but to preserve its integrity, out-sourced it to Toronto researcher

Dr. Diane Van Alstyne, who in turn hired another researcher at the

prestigious Boston Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Lili Huang was

not told what product she was testing. The researcher's in-vitro

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May 3, 2005

Hi Lori,

I bought my first order on line. I searched essiac tea and bought the kind

you brew yourself. It takes a little longer because you brew it for twelve

hours and then it sits in your fridge while you take your 2 oz in am and 2

oz in pm. Some folks say it tastes like " dirt " ...I actually find it quite

fine and don't mind it at all.

Jay also drinks the tea every day.

If you have a local health store, go there and if they don't have it, they

can order it for you.

Karima

Re: Essiac Tea Re: Karima

Thank you for that valuable info on the tea I am so into teas. And useing

the loose tea instea of the bags it seems to be fresher that way. Can u get

it in your local store? Or where can I purchase it? Lori

Barbara Gari karima1@...> wrote:This is a really great article on

Essiac Tea. I just couldn't pass the