Dear Gwen,
May I add something here. I know some people that have taken essiac
are allergic to some of the herbs that are in it. there have been some
allergy reactions, now that doesnt mean for all, but there has been some
writeups, which I do not have handy, about the warnings in some herbs
that are in some teas. YOu may wish to investigate further into that as
well.
I have to agree with doctos that say "that it is not clinically approved
to determine that it is a cure, or remedy, but it may not hurt as well".
That is a typical reaction that a good positive doc may say in order to
cooperate with someones passion to try alternatives. May I say to you
that I said to Rich. We, and the medical community, do not know of any
cure or complete remedy to curing or controlling cancer, but there are
some that help certain individuals, for instance, some swear by shark
cartilege, barb is allergic to it and had reactions. Some swear by
pycnogenals, (anti oxidants for free radicals) and yet it doesnt help
others. So I would say, whatever works for you go for it. Even some
placebos have resulted in cures. The mind is a marvelous thing.
Take care Gwen, just my thought and not to be argumentative but just add
my thought for you and others for their wellness journey.
Take care dear friend
marty auslander
GW0123 wrote:
>
> Here is all that I got on Essiac Tea and it is great reading. You have to go
> to your file manager, due to being to large for AOL to open. Let me know how
> you think. There is an address at the bottom that will take you to this on the
> Net and if you have problems I will hyper-link it to you.
>
> Take care Gwen :)
>
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> Essiac - A Remarkable Canadian
> Indian Remedy For Cancer
>
> [natural health divider line]
>
> "Essiac", a harmless herbal tea, was used by Canadian nurse
> Rene Caisse to successfully treat thousands of cancer
> patients from the 1920's until her death in 1978 at the age
> of 90. Refusing payment for her services, and instead
> accepting only voluntary contributions, the Bracebridge,
> Ontario nurse brought remissions to hundreds of documented
> cases, many abandoned as "hopeless" or "terminal" by
> orthodox medicine. She aided countless more in prolonging
> life and relieving pain. Caisse obtained remarkable results
> against a wide variety of cancers, treating patients by
> administering Essiac through hypodermic injection or oral
> ingestion.
>
> The formula for the herbal remedy was given to Caisse in
> 1922 by a hospital patient whose breast cancer had been
> healed by an Ontario Indian medicine man. Essiac came within
> just three votes of being legalized by the Canadian
> parliament in 1938. Over the years, many prominent
> physicians voiced their support for the efficacy of Caisse's
> medicine. For example, Dr. Charles Brusch of the prestigious
> Brusch Medical Center - former physician to President John
> F. Kennedy - declared that "Essiac has merit in the
> treatment of cancer" and revealed that he cured his own
> cancer with it. In a notarized statement made on April 6,
> 1990, Dr. Brusch testified, "I endorse this therapy even
> today, for I have in fact cured my own cancer, the original
> site of which was the lower bowels, through Essiac alone."
>
> Despite such support, Rene Caisse lived under the constant
> threat of persecution and harassment by Canadian
> authorities. Today Essiac is unapproved for marketing in the
> United States or Canada. Resperin Corporation of Ontario
> provides Essiac to patients in Canada under a special
> agreement with Canada's Health and Welfare Department, which
> permits "emergency releases of Essiac on compassionate
> grounds" - while deeming it "an ineffective cancer
> treatment." Another company reportedly has the authentic
> formula for the herbal remedy in Caisse's handwriting, plus
> eight of her formula variations for specific cancers,
> including cancer of the prostate. It recently made Essiac
> available through various distributors.
>
> CONFLICT OVER ESSIAC
>
> Rene Caisse refused to publicly divulge the precise Essiac
> formula during her lifetime, fearing that a monopolistic
> medical establishment would either try to discredit the
> formula once they got hold of it, or else would use it to
> reap enormous profits. Also, Caisse wanted Essiac safe for
> immediate use on suffering cancer patients, but medical
> experts demanded prior testing on lab mice. Caisse
> repeatedly offered to reveal the exact formula and method of
> preparation if Canadian medical authorities would first
> admit that Essiac had merit in the treatment of cancer.
> Doctors and politicians argued that they realistically
> couldn't give any such endorsement until they first knew
> what was in the herbal mixture. The result was a standoff.
>
> INGREDIENTS OF ESSIAC
>
> The principle herbs in Essiac include burdock root, turkey
> rhubarb root (or Indian rhubarb), sheep sorrel, and slippery
> elm bark. Burdock root, a key active ingredient, is also a
> major ingredient of the Hoxsey herbal remedy. Significantly,
> two Hungarian scientists in 1966 reported "considerable
> anti-tumor activity" in a purified fraction of burdock. In
> 1984, Japanese scientists at Nagoya University discovered in
> burdock a new type of desmutagen, a substance uniquely
> capable of reducing cell mutation either in the absence or
> in the presence of metabolic activation. The Japanese
> researchers named this new property "the B-factor" for
> burdock factor. Another herb in Essiac, turkey rhubarb
> (Indian rhubarb), was demonstrated to have anti-tumor
> activity in the sarcoma-37 animal test system. Herbalists
> believe that the synergistic interaction of herbal
> ingredients contributes to the therapeutic effect. They
> point out that laboratory tests on a single, isolated
> compound from an herbal formula fails to address this
> synergistic potency.
>
> WHAT ESSIAC DOES
>
en
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