Essiac Tea (4-Herb Tea)

Herb Of The Week / Essiac Tea (4-Herb Tea)

I hope and pray that everyone will have a healthy and prosperous
upcoming week. I also pray that you will be blessed spiritually with
an increased understanding of those things essential for your
well-being.


The Herb-Of-The-Week for this week is a special anti-cancer formula
consisting of 4 herbs called Essiac Tea. Essiac is named after the
nurse, Rene Caisse, who used it to successfully treat THOUSANDS of
cancer patients in the 1920's. It is her name spelled backwards.
Caisse obtained remarkable results against a wide variety of cancers,
treating persons by administering Essiac through hypodermic injection
or oral ingestion.

IMPORTANT:
Essiac Tea is not magic. If you continue the same dietary habits that
have been documented as possible contributors to cancer (REFINED AND
PROCESSED FOODS) Essiac Tea cannot and will not help much. I have
personally witnessed friends and family die of cancer even while
drinking Essiac Tea. Simply put, the antidote will not work if you
are still eating the poison.

For instance:

WHITE SUGAR feeds cancer.
You must also give up WHITE FLOUR (pastry, pasta, and other forms of
"paste")
WHITE RICE.


To avoid these chemicals AND LIVE, you must COOK YOUR OWN FOOD and
entirely avoid processed foods. Ask yourself a very basic
question..... have you ever been driving along the highway and saw
fields of white wheat? There is no such thing. Refined wheat has been
stripped of it's nutrients and BLEACHED to its pristine and pure white
color. Read the label on your flour.


White sugar is what is left after all the nutrients have been stripped
from the sugar cane. The good and healthy "sludge" that is left behind
after the refining process is called black strap molasses, consisting
of all the important vitamins and minerals.


You must immediately give up all of the chemicals found in processed
food:
Artificial colorings
Artificial flavorings
Artificial Sweeteners
Chemical preservatives
Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils
MSG
High Fructose Corn Syrup


If you cook your own foods, you probably will not add the above
ingredients. You probably don't have any polysorbate 80 in your
cabinet.

Ditto for Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (a trans fat) is present in
almost ALL the processed food in your cabinet! That's because it
increases the shelf life of the food.


Monosodium Glutamate is popularly sold as Accent and is present in
many pre-mixed seasonings like seasoned salt.


READ THE LABELS. If you cannot even pronounce the
ingredients.......!!!!


HERE ARE SOME INTERESTING WEB SITES:

Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil - www.dldewey.com/hydroilf.htm
White sugar - http://chetday.com/sugar.html
High Fructose Corn Syrup -
http://www.menshealth.com/features/mensconf/docs/doc31.html
MSG - www.nomsg.com
Artificial Sweetener - www.bragg.com/fact_sheets/excitotoxins_01.html


The principal herbs in Essiac include burdock root, turkey rhubarb
root (Indian rhubarb), sheep sorrel, and slippery elm bark. Though
each of the individual herbs exhibit
anti-cancerous and anti-tumorous properties, herbalists believe that
the synergistic interaction of each of the herbs contribute to the
therapeutic effect of Essiac Tea. They point out that laboratory tests
on a single, isolated compound from one herbal formula fail to address
this synergistic potency.


The story of Essiac:

The story of Essiac began in 1922, when Caisse, a surgical nurse
working in a Haileybury, Ontario, hospital, noticed an elderly patient
with a strangely scarred, gnarled breast. When Rene asked the woman,
who was nearly eighty, what had happened, the woman replied that some
thirty years earlier, she had developed a growth on her breast and an
Indian friend had offered to heal it with herbal medicine. This woman
and her husband then went to Ontario, where doctors confirmed the
diagnosis of advanced cancer and told her the breast would have to be
surgically removed. Opting instead to take her chances with the Indian
herbal healer, the woman returned to his mining camp and drank the
brew daily. Her tumors gradually shrank, then disappeared. Over two
decades later, when Caisse stumbled across her in the hospital, she
was still totally cancer-free.

Caisse asked the woman for the herbal recipe. "My thought was that if
I should ever develop cancer, I would use it," Caisse later wrote.

In 1924, Caisse's aunt, Mireza Potvin, was diagnosed with advanced
cancer of the stomach and was told she had six months at the most to
live. Remembering the Indian brew, Rene asked her aunt's physician,
Dr. R. O. Fisher of Toronto, for permission to try it on her dying
relative. Dr. Fisher consented, and Rene gathered the herbs to brew
the tea. After drinking the herbal concoction daily for two months,
Mireza Potvin rallied, got well, and went on to live another
twenty-one years.

Soon Caisse and her aunt's physician, Dr. R. O. Fisher of Toronto,
teamed up to treat cancer patients who had been written off by their
doctors as terminal. Many of these patients, too, showed dramatic
improvement. Working nights and weekends in Toronto in her mother's
basement, which Rene had converted into a laboratory, she and Dr.
Fisher experimented on mice inoculated with human cancer. They
modified the combination of herbs to maximize efficacy. It was at this
point that Rene named the herbal treatment Essiac (her name spelled
backwards).


Essiac came within just three votes of being legalized by the Canadian
parliament in 1938. Dr. Charles Brusch-a founder of the prestigious
Brusch Medical Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a 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 and Canada. However,
Resperin Corporation of Ontario provides Essiac to patients in Canada
under a special agreement with the Canadian Health and Welfare
department, which permits "emergency releases of Essiac on
compassionate grounds" while still deeming it "an ineffective cancer
treatment."


But why take my word for it? Research Essiac Tea.


By good utilization of search engine technology, we can look up
information as in depth as we desire in our own free time. As we
mention all the time, with every post, that you can research anything
mentioned in this newsletter on your own. Some good search engines are
www.mamma.com or www.google.com. or www.dogpile.com or
www.askjeeves.com ...etc. By entering one or more keywords you can do
your own research.


Until next time remember .... most illness (upwards of 80% according
to experts) can be attributed to FOUR important factors that can
weaken your immune system and your ability to fight off disease:


1. Anxiety, depression, anger, resentment, guilt and other STRESS
factors
2. Improper and/or inadequate NUTRITION habits
3. A sedentary lifestyle that does not include enough EXERCISE
4. Not enough rest and quality SLEEP time

The United States Surgeon General warned Americans in a landmark 1988
report on Nutrition and Health that "diet related diseases account for
68% of U.S. deaths"


Remember, we ALWAYS recommend that you ALWAYS consult a professional
herbalist, naturopathologist or physician. We are just passing along
what we hope to be useful information.


Bye-Bye,

Q