What is Essiac?
Essiac is a pleasant-tasting four-herb tea which was developed from a native American remedy by Canadian nurse Rene Caisse. According to the research of Sheila Snow and Mali Klein the original, native formula consisted of eight herbs. Rene Caisse tested the tea on mice and used it on cancer patients in her cancer clinic in Bracebridge, Ontario. After fifty years of testing various herbal combinations Nurse Caisse modified the original native formula and eventually reduced it to a decoction of the following four herbs: cut burdock root (arctium lappa), sheep sorrel powder, root included (rumex acetosella), slippery elm bark powder (ulmus rubra/fulva) and turkey rhubarb root (rheum palmatum). Unlike Chinese green tea or black tea, Essiac tea does not contain caffeine.
Rene Caisse called her tea "Essiac"--her surname spelled backwards.
Rene Caisse stated: "My decoction is a non-toxic drink made from herbs which are of definite benefit for cancer." [THE ESSENCE OF ESSIAC, p. 122-3]
"We all have the right to benefit from Essiac because no one can stop us making it, no one can stop us taking it and no one can stop us deciding how and when we're going to do it." [THE ESSIAC BOOK by Mali Klein, 2006]
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[This article is reprinted by permission of Eric L. Frei of www.HealthFreedom.info.]