The Story of Essiac

The Story of Essiac

Gilbert Blondin was a rough and tumble French Canadian truck driver with a beautiful wife, Noella, and a young daughter, Brigitte, when a strange and deadly cancer descended upon his family like a thief in the night.

Noella, only 32 years old in 1977, was suddenly so ill she could not function. She was taken to the Hull, Quebec hospital and placed in a cancer ward with several other cancer patients. Doctors were puzzled by the swift malignancy that struck her glands, her blood, her skin and her bone marrow. To obtain correct diagnosis, samples of Noella's biopsies were sent to specialists around the world -- Paris, UCLA, New York, Mayo Clinic, et al. The final verdict was "histiocytoma, malignant reticulosis" according to her record. This refers to a combination cancer-leukemia involving cells, organs, skin and bone marrow.

The marvel of medical science could give her malady a name, but it could do nothing to treat her, to return her to health or to save her life. Gilbert was a simple, strong man. All he knew was that his wife was dying and he was helpless. He searched for an answer. Could life be this cruel?

Then, in the summer of 1977, he read an article in Homemaker magazine about Rene Caisse of Bracebridge, Ontario who treated thousands of miserable cancer victims for decades with an herbal remedy called Essiac. . . .

. . . . Every weekend, rain, blinding blizzard, whatever, Gilbert drove the 500 mile round trip to get Noella's bottle of herbal tonic. The initial results -- herb feelings after taking the Essiac were encouraging. . . .

In three months time, after her 12th. week on Essiac, her Doctor was "amazed!" He wrote on her medical record - "spectacular remission, unexplainable". . . . Noella is alive and healthy today -- a dozen years later. pg. 1,2

Going back to the Beginning - And so it was in the year 1922, when 33 year old Rene Caisse, a nurse in Haileybury, Ontario, Canada, happened to be attending an 80 year old woman patient who was just coming out of surgery. The woman had ugly scars on her right breast and Rene asked her about it. The woman's story changed Rene Caisse's life, and ultimately saved countless thousands of other lives.

Nurse Caisse told, and retold, the story of that fateful meeting in 1922 right up to her death in 1978 at the age of 90. The telling never varied. The elderly woman patient told how she had come to Northern Ontario from England 30 years earlier (1892) to join her husband. Shortly after her arrival her right breast became sore and swollen and painful. An old Indian medicine man at the prospector's camp told her she had cancer, and that he could cure it with an Indian herbal remedy. Instead, her husband took her to the medical doctors in Toronto where she learned she had advanced breast cancer and should have immediate surgery. For reasons of her own, the woman chose to try the Indian remedy. When she returned to camp, the medicine man brewed her an herbal tea to drink, told her the ingredients and showed her how to brew it properly.

She drank the tea daily and shortly her breast tumor diminished and finally vanished altogether, leaving only the scars where the cancer had destroyed the skin. She was still free of cancer the day she told Rene Caisse the story in 1922. Rene was very much interested and wrote down the recipe and the brewing instructions which were passed along freely. pg. 3

This excerpt was taken from a small book called "Essiac: Natures cure for Cancer, Aids (& other immune Diseases)". This book gives the history of Essiac, and Rene Caisse, the Canadian nurse who developed and used this formula successfully for so many years. This book is available from us.

So What is Essiac?

Essiac is a blend of four herbs, Cut Burdock Root, Powdered Sheep Sorrel Herb, Powdered Slippery Elm, and Powdered Turkey Rhubarb. Instead of being steeped for a short while as most herbal teas are, the Essiac formula is boiled for a total of one hour, and let sit for several hours. This produces a strong decoction, and must be diluted 50/50 with water before drinking. Quoting again from the book, "'I decided that if I should ever develop cancer,' -- Rene wrote in her brief autobiography, I Was Canada's Cancer Nurse -- 'that I would use this herbal tea.' Then about a year later she was strolling with a wise and aged doctor when he stopped, took his cane and stroked a weed. 'Nurse Caisse,' he told Rene, 'if people would use this weed there would be little or no cancer in the world.' The doctor told her the name of the plant, Burdock, and Rene realized that it was one of the herbs the elderly woman had named as an ingredient in the medicine man's tea." pg. 3,4

Is Essiac a 100% Cure?

Quoting: "Rene Caisse said it over and over again. Essiac is not 100%; it performed thousands of spectacular "remissions" over the years, but it also failed a modest percentage of the time. Even in failure, however, it appeared to serve as a palliative nearly every time -- lessening pain, returning the patient to a modicum of dignity and operating ability during his or her last days." pg. 26

How Does it Work?

Quoting: "Essiac elevates the enzyme system and gives all cancer patients and all AIDS patients the enzymes that have been destroyed. Essiac elevates the enzyme system; it elevates the hormone system, which elevates the immune system, so the body can cure its own disease. " pg. 41

How Much is Too Much?

Quoting: "Even its worst enemy could never lay claim that Essiac had any deleterious side effects whatever. You can take Essiac Safely, through all the clinical trials that have been done, up to six ounces a day. That's two ounces in the evening, two in the morning and two around noontime." pg. 41

All references in this discussion were taken from "Essiac: Nature's Cure for Cancer, Aids (& other Immune Diseases), Revised Edition"

This discussion is in no way intended to prescribe treatment for diseases. Any illness should be monitored by a qualified health professional. The intent of the discussion is to educate, and enlighten one about herbs, proper nutrition, and a healthy lifestyle

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