No book on alternative cancer treatments would be complete without a discussion of the herbal tea treatment called "Essiac." Essiac has been used successfully by thousands for more than a hundred years.
The history of Essiac began in the late 1800s with a Canadian woman who was suffering from advanced breast cancer. She happened to meet an Ojibwa Indian medicine man, and he told her he could cure her illness.
Her doctors recommended surgery, but she turned down their advice and decided to try the medicine man's offer instead. He showed the woman four herbs that grew naturally in her area and told her how to pick them and brew them into a tea. He told her to drink this tea every day.
That's exactly what she did, and she recovered completely from advanced breast cancer.
The world learns about this amazing remedy
Thirty years later, in 1922, this same woman—now grown old -- was a patient in a Canadian hospital in northern Ontario. Rene Caisse, the head nurse, was bathing her when she noticed a great deal of scar tissue on the woman's breast. She asked the woman what had happened.The woman explained how she had been dying from breast cancer 30 years earlier and was cured by an Indian herbal formula. Caisse was extremely interested, especially because the woman's cancer had never come back in 30 years. With conventional cancer treatments, the disease almost always comes back, even after a patient appears to be cured.
Caisse wrote down the names of the herbs from her patient in the hospital: sheep sorrel, burdock root, slippery elm bark, and turkey rhubarb root. Nurse Caisse was told that when blended and brewed together in a certain way, these herbs had more curative power than any one of the herbs had by itself.
Caisse cures her own aunt!
About a year after receiving the formula, Rene Caisse's aunt was diagnosed with stomach cancer that had metastasized to her liver. The doctor had given up on her, so Caisse brewed the herbal tea and gave it to her to drink.The tea worked and her aunt lived another 21 years!
Soon, Rene Caisse was treating more and more patients. When she wanted to pick a name for her concoction, Caisse decided to spell the letters of her last name backwards. That's how the herbal tea came to be called Essiac.
From 1934 to 1942, Rene Caisse treated thousands of cancer patients who had no other hope. She never claimed her treatment was a cure, but it turned out to be just that for many people. Caisse's own mother developed liver cancer at one point and Rene put her on Essiac. Her mother got well and went on to live another 18 years.
Most people who tried Essiac came to it as a last resort. That's typical of alternative cancer treatments. People only try them when chemotherapy, radiation and surgery have failed, and their doctors have told them there's no hope. Because their cancers were so far advanced, not everyone was able to fully recover.
But even for these advanced cases, Essiac was often able to halt the progress of the disease, and for still others it provided pain relief. But literally thousands of people reported complete cures from their cancer thanks to Essiac.
Nurse Caisse never demanded payment for giving people this life-giving therapy. She did accept donations from anyone who could afford to give.
Around 1938, grateful former patients and friends of Rene Caisse petitioned Canada's Parliament to give Caisse the legal right to administer her remedy to anyone who asked for it. The petition drive collected an incredible 55,000 signatures!
The petition brought about a bill to legalize Essiac, but it fell just three votes short of being passed, and Essiac was not given the legitimacy it deserved.
JFK's personal physician declared, "Essiac is a cure for cancer, period."
Charles A. Brusch, M.D., was a highly regard American doctor who had been the personal physician to John F. Kennedy. Dr. Brusch heard about Essiac and became very interested in it. Between 1959 and 1962 he worked closely with Rene Caisse and together they treated thousands of patients at his clinic in Massachusetts.
After about 10 years of studying Essiac and using it with patients, he decided, "Essiac is a cure for cancer, period. All studies done at laboratories in the United States and Canada support this conclusion."
You can easily obtain this incredible discovery today and use it at home. What's more, you can use it along with conventional treatments if that's your choice. And you can use OTHER alternative treatments at the same time as Essiac, too. You can safely combine as many as a half dozen of the natural treatments you'll discover in the best-selling book Outsmart Your Cancer.
But Essiac is not a patented drug. It's an herbal formula anyone can make. And that means a number of different companies offer different versions of Essiac. Which one should you buy? That's a darn good question.
Excerpt from: http://www.cancerdefeated.com/OYC/report/free-report.php
Healthwise: I suggest you try Flora's Flor Essence - an Essiac Tea produced by a Canadian company that grows their own herbs organically. You can buy the dry herbs (comes in 3 sachets in a box) and prepare the tea yourself, or the pre-prepared tea that comes in a bottle which is more expensive. I have tried it and use it regularly for general health maintenance. You don't have to be ill to drink this tea. It is good for children as well and goes towards enhancing our level of immunity. See other articles on this blog under 'Essiac' or 'Rene Caisse'.
