CANCER AND RENE CAISSE

CANCER AND RENE CAISSE

(THE STORY TWO GOVERNEMENTS TRIED TO SUPPRESS)

BY DAVE STARBUCK

For nothing is secret that shall not be made manifest; neither anything hid that shall not be known and come abroad.

Luke 8:17

By and large, books which are banned by some country or other contain information which, if known to the masses, could pose a serious threat to some government, institution or lucrative industry.

Allow me to illustrate this point by one example. Kitty Kelley's book ‘The Royals' (published by Warner Books Inc. New York, 1997.) Although freely available in the United States, it is banned in the U.K. The reasons for this are simple. Apart from disclosing facts about the Royal Family which many people would not like to hear, reading this well -researched book is enough to turn even the most ardent royalist against the monarchy forever.

Although the theme of this document is not about royalty, it IS about censorship and the banning of the book which poses a threat to an institution far more powerful than the monarchy.

The book in question: ‘Calling of an Angel', by Dr. Gary L. Glum is about a non-toxic herbal formula, developed by a woman called Rene Caisse from a native recipe which has a proven track-record in beating cancer. Incidentally, Dr. Glum wrote another book called ‘Full Disclosure', (the story of the creation of AID's). However, it is the former book and some of its contents which is the topic of this app.

As the reader progresses with this document, it will gradually become self-evident why this book is banned in the U.S.A and very hard to get in other countries, including the U.K., although an address where it can be obtained from is given along with other information, towards the end of this app.

Very briefly Rene Caisse was a nurse living in Canada, who, for a period of almost 60 years, treated hundreds of people with a herbal remedy she called ‘Essiac', (an anagram of her surname). She discovered the remedy through a patient in the hospital where she worked, who had been cured of cancer. The patient had used a herbal remedy given her by a herbalist from the Oybwa tribe.

Rene left the hospital in 1922 at the age of 33, and went to Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada, where she began administering Essiac to all who came to her. The majority of those whom she treated came on referral with letters from their physicians certifying they had incurable or terminal forms of cancer and that they had been given up by the medical profession as untreatable.

Rene began gathering the plants and preparing the herbal remedy herself in her own kitchen, in a building lent to her for her patients. She administered Essiac both orally and by injection. In cases where there was severe damage to life support organs, her patients died - but they lived for longer than the medical profession had predicted, and significantly, they lived free of pain. Still, others listed as hopeless and terminal but without severe damage to life support organs, were cured and lived 35 to 45 years longer.

So startling was the effectiveness of this simple herbal remedy, it could NOT be ignored, and the Canadian Ministry of Health and Welfare, plus the Parliament, became involved. Friends, former patients and grateful families petitioned Canadian officialdom for Rene Caisse's right to administer the remedy to anyone who asked for it without the threat of interference from the authorities.  Fifty-five thousand signatures were collected on the petition. In 1938, Essiac came within three votes of being legalised by the Ontario government as a remedy for terminal cancer patients.

A few years ago, Dr. Gary Glum was interviewed about his book by Elizabeth Robinson. The interview was first published in Wildfire Magazine and also in the December 1992 and January 1993 issue of Nexus.

What Dr. Glum revealed certainly offered tremendous hope to cancer and aids sufferers, but his revelations about the pharmaceutical industry and other institutions must make very disturbing reading to any person who honestly believes that the powers-that-be are doing everything they can to find a cure for cancer. They would also think twice before donating any more money to charities supporting similar claims. If the statement sounds preposterous you can judge for yourself. Part of the interview with Dr. Gary Glum, by Elizabeth Robinson, is reproduced here.

Elizabeth Robinson (ER):   To begin with, Dr. Glum, can you tell us a little about how you became interested in the story you tell in Calling of an Angel, and how you learned about Rene Caisse and her work?

Dr. Gary Glum (GG):   A personal friend of mine knew this woman, whose name I have promised not to reveal, who was living in Detroit, Michigan. Twenty years ago she had been diagnosed with cervical cancer in a Detroit hospital where she was eventually given up as incurable and terminal. She was given about ten days to live.

She convinced her husband to make a trip to Bracebridge, Canada, where she went to see Rene Caisse. She was treated with Essiac, the herbal remedy developed by Rene, and in a short time she didn't have a cancer cell in her body.

So after that time this woman began dedicating her life to disseminating information about Essiac in the United States. When I met her, she was the only person in possession of the original herbal formula who would relinquish it. I got the formula for Essiac from her.

That's how it began. When I started, all I had to hand was a piece of paper. I thought, ‘What am I going to do with this?' I decided the best way to go would be to find the information behind Essiac and put it in book form and bring it to the world. I learned about Rene Caisse from Mary McPherson, who was a very close, personal friend of Rene; not only a friend, but also a patient. Mary's mother and her husband were also patients. They were all treated for cancer and cured by Rene.

Mary worked with Rene beginning in the 1930's, and she had in her possession all of these documents that had to do with Essiac over the 40 years Rene administered it.

All the documents Rene had were destroyed by the Canadian Ministry of Health and Welfare at the time of her death in 1978. They burned all that information in 55 gallon drums behind her home.

ER:   Why?

GG:   Because they don't want this information in the hands of the public or the press or anybody else. They indeed found out what Essiac was in 1937. The Royal Cancer Commission hearings had then come to the same conclusion that Rene had: that Essiac was a cure for cancer.

ER:   What is Essiac, exactly?

GG:   Essiac is a non-toxic herbal cure for cancer that's been with us since 1922. It's a formula made from four very common herbs.

ER:   I would guess that virtually every person in the U.S. today has been touched by cancer, either personally or through a loved one. If this information is true, and the effectiveness of this remedy is actually medically documented, many lives could be saved. Why do you think the information on Essiac is not more widely known?

GG:   The information is withheld because cancer is the second largest revenue-producing business in the world, next to the petro-chemical business. Money and power suppress this truth.

No one has ever sought to cure cancer, only to control it. I mean, the research institutes, federal governments, pharmaceutical companies - anybody that has a vested interest in the healthcare of cancer, including the American Cancer Society, the Canadian Cancer Society - any of these so-called benefactors to those who have contracted this disease - all these institutions are involved in the money and power around cancer. 

These institutions have influence over government and regulatory agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA recommends only allopathic treatments for cancer and other life - threatening diseases. It does not approve, nor make legal, alternative treatments of any kind.

ER:   In your book you mention that the Brusch Clinic in Massachusetts worked with Rene Caisse and with Essiac during the early 1960's. Is this clinic still doing research with Essiac?

GG:   Dr. Charles A. Brusch is not practising at this time. He was a personal physician to the late John F. Kennedy. Dr. Brusch worked with Rene Caisse from 1959 to 1962. He worked with thousands of cancer patients. He also worked with the Presidential Cancer Commission, with others like Dr. Armond Hammer, the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute.

Dr Brusch presented his findings after 10 years of research. He had come to the conclusion that, ‘Essiac is a cure for cancer. All the studies done at laboratories in the United States and Canada support this conclusion.'

Whereupon the Federal Government issued a gagging order and said ‘You've got one of two choices - either you keep quiet about this or we'll haul you off to a military prison, and you'll never be heard of again.'

So we never heard another word out of him.

Brusch's Essiac patients included Ted Kennedy's son who had a sarcoma on his leg and had to have his leg amputated. He was being treated at that time by the Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Farber didn't know how to save him, because no one had ever lived with this type of sarcoma. So what he did do was go to Dr. Brusch and say ‘How are we going to save Ted Kennedy's son?' And Dr. Brusch made the suggestion to put him on Essiac, and after they did, he didn't have a cancer cell in his body. But all of this information has been hidden from the general public.

ER:   Why?

GG:   As I said, money and power.

ER:   Do you know whether the remedy is still today being used or tested anywhere in the U.S. or Canada?

GG:   Right now, Essiac is being used in every state in the United States, throughout Canada, into Mexico. It's in Australia, Europe, Asia and recently also in Africa. So the message of Essiac is beginning to make its way worldwide. But it's still known only on a very limited basis.

Of course, now you also have the problem of herbal distributing companies throughout the world that are substituting yellow dock and curly dock for sheep's sorrel, which is one of the critical ingredients in Essiac.

The sheep's sorrel is the herbal ingredient in Essiac that was found responsible for the destruction of cancer cells in the body, or their amalgamation where metastasised cancer cells actually return to the original tumour site.

That research was done by Dr. Chester Stock at Sloan Kettering in New York over a three year period. But when they gathered that information, they withheld it from the general public - yet they gave it to the Canadian Ministry of Health and Welfare. The Canadian Government then immediately banned that herb for sale and distribution.

ER:   Banned a common weed like sheep's sorrel?

GG:   Yes, sheep's sorrel is just a common weed that grows in abundance throughout North America and into Canada. Just a common weed.

ER:   Well, it seems that banning sheep's sorrel would not be very effective if you could identify it for yourself.

GG:   Yes, it's just a question of identifying the plant and then harvesting it correctly and dying it properly before putting it together with the other herbs. Rene would harvest the sheep's sorrel, (Rumex acetosella) when it was four to six inches high. She would cut it back and it would grow up again, and she'd cut it back again. She would do that about three times and then she would let it go to seed. It would grow 14 or 18 inches. She would take the herb cuttings home and lay them out at room temperature to dry them. She'd let the cuttings sit there for three to four days before turning them. Then she'd turn them every two days until they were properly dry, which took from about ten days to two weeks. It takes about a bushel of harvested sheep's sorrel to produce one pound of the dried powdered herb which is used in the formula.

ER:   Do you have the formula? It's not in your book. You do mention a video in your book.

GG:   Yes, I have it. Anyone can get it from me, free of charge. We don't sell the video anymore. We simply mail the formula to anyone who asks for it.

ER:   Sun Bear told me you had problems getting the book published and distributed. What kind of problems?

GG:   There wasn't a publishing company that would publish it. No one wanted to run the risk of a wrongful - death suit. So I published the book myself. As soon as I did, the I.R.S came in and slapped about half a million dollars in tax liens against me and said ‘You know this has got nothing to do with taxes. It's all about cancer.'

They actually started hauling the pallet of books out of my medical practice offices and confiscating them. I also had thousands of books that were confiscated by the Canadian Government at Customs. I have never received any of these books back. The only ones I have now are hidden in storage facilities.

ER:   That's incredible. Why do you think they are so interested in keeping this book out of circulation?

GG:   Money and power, as I've said. Cancer is the largest revenue - producing business in the world, next to the petrochemical business. In Canada, the book is being held up by the Ministry of Health and Welfare because they say it is ‘advertising'.

ER:   Advertising what? The video you don't sell anymore?

GG:   No, a cure for cancer.

ER:   Can you explain what you mean by the publishers fearing a ‘wrongful - death suit'?

GG:   What you're dealing with is giving people a formula that they can make and use in the privacy of their own homes, without the approval of any official body or organisation. If any attorney or family member should decide, for whatever reason, that the reason someone expired was from the use of Essiac, then you are putting yourself up for a wrongful - death suit. The contention is that if it isn't approved by the Food and Drug Administration, there's no legality in using it when you're dealing with a life - threatening disease. 

When Rene Caisse set up her clinical trials in Canada to test Essiac, she was given government permission to treat terminally ill cancer patients who had been given up as hopeless by the medical profession. That was one criterion. Secondly, this was all to be certified by a pathology report. And thirdly, she could not charge anything for services. She agreed to all these criteria and proceeded to treat people with Essiac. Many she treated were still there 35 years later to bury her when she died aged 90.

The best that anyone can do is just to try to disseminate this information to the public and let people make their own choices. That's all you can do. And just say, look, if you feel you have the right to make this remedy and use it in the privacy of your own home and without anyone's approval.

You know, in 1937, Essiac came within three votes of being legalised as a treatment for cancer. People had gathered over 55,000 signatures on a petition to allow Rene to continue to use Essiac. The only reason the vote fell short, she found out later, was that the College of Physicians and Surgeons met and said to Parliament, if you don't respond to the political pressure and legalise Essiac, then we'll take a sincere look and give this woman a fair hearing. So Parliament didn't legalise Essiac.

So following the Royal Cancer Commission hearings, Rene was allowed to continue her practice but only within the criteria I mentioned before, which allowed the Ministry of Health and Welfare to restrict people's access to Essiac treatments.

I know this because I have a copy of the hearing transcripts, which I got from Mary McPherson, which is some of the information that did not get burned when Rene died.

ER:   You mentioned that earlier. What exactly was burned?

GG:   All her research for that 40 year period of time. All the names, all her clinical data that she had collected, her files and records.

ER:   What about the records of the Brusch Clinic? It seems these would be convincing evidence.

GG:   As far as I know, all that material has been destroyed, too. I knew that Rene had worked with Dr. Brusch from 1959 to 1962, so I went to Dr. Brusch's home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, whereupon he delivered to me the only material had left in his files on Essiac. One of these was his own personal file showing how he had treated and cured his own cancer with Essiac.

All the information in my book is verified by a sheet of paper with a signature and date on it, and those sheets are all original. They are not copies.

ER:   Have you had any personal experiences with Essiac?

GG:   Yes, I can give you an example. He was a 12 year old boy named Toby Wood. He had acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, which is one of the most virulent of all leukaemias. He had been on chemotherapy for four years and radiation for three. His mother's only hope in life was to find a cure for him. She went everywhere. She tried every alternative treatment.

Her last stop was Dr. Alvagades in Athens, Greece, where her son's white cell count was 186,000. He had no red blood cells and no platelets. He was haemorrhaging to death. So they transfused Toby in Greece, and put him on a plane to Alaska where he was given five days to live.

I met his mother's sister in Los Angeles while I was putting the book together and she asked me if there was any credibility here, and we sat down and talked. She then borrowed the money for a flight to Anchorage, and delivered a bottle of Essiac. By the time she got there, Toby was given three days to live. He was in a state of complete deterioration. He was given the Essiac and all the haemorrhaging stopped within 24 hours.  Within three months, all his blood tests were normal. I arrived in Alaska later that year and met him.

Toby Wood did die, and we finally found a pathologist who would do an exhaustive autopsy. We knew that he didn't have leukaemia any more. We wanted to find out what was the cause of death. It took four months to get the report back. The pathologist autopsied the brain, testicles and all life - support organs, including the bone marrow. Cause of death was damage to the myocardial sac of the heart - a result of the chemotherapy.

This was the first report anywhere in medical history of anyone surviving lymphoblastic leukaemia. That information was taken to AP and UP but they said it was not news worthy.

Our information on Essiac has been sent around the world twice through Publisher's Weekly magazine in a huge two page ad. We received no response at all from any publishing company worldwide, no producers or directors throughout the United States, no talk show programmes, none of that. We can't access the media. No one wants this information disseminated. And it's not just the media, either. It includes the herbal companies who are now substituting the curly dock for sheep's sorrel. So people are getting the wrong ingredients for Essiac, not to mention the five or six other formulas that are circulating which are different from the one I send out. These FALSE formulas are being disseminated. There is a misinformation campaign going on here somewhere.

ER:   Has this misinformation campaign started just since your book has been out?

GG:   Previous to my book, none of this information was available to the general public at all. The public had no information outside of the few assorted articles. Certainly the Essiac formula was not available to the general public at all. All that information was held by the Resperin Corporation in Toronto, Canada, which supposedly is a private institution. However, they work hand - in - glove with the Canadian Ministry of Health and Welfare, which works directly with the American Food and Drug Administration and the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. The Essiac formula was never given to anyone by Resperin.

ER:   Did the Resperin Corporation do any research on Essiac?

GG:   They've done research since 1978 when the formula was relinquished to them by Rene for the purchase price of one dollar. As soon as they got the formula, they told Rene they had no further use for her. She had been under the distinct impression from the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Resperin Corporation that she was to lead the research activities that they so desperately wanted to put together.

But Rene had already done clinical trials. She had names and records. She thought the Resperin Corporation was politically powerful enough and had money to get Essiac into the public sector without compromising her values. Then she found out the Corporation was working closely with the government and administrations and the Ministry of Health and Welfare. So now people who were terminally ill and given up as hopeless had to go through a federal beaurocratic maze to get the remedy. By then, for most people, it was too late. But even when people were cured, the information was not released to the public.

Resperin ran research tests on Essiac. One test was conducted in Northern Canada and the documents were falsified. For example, one man who was tested knocked on Rene's door a few months later and said ‘You know, I want to thank you for the Essiac and being part of this experimental programme.' Yet he was listed as dead in the research project findings. 

ER:   It's beginning to seem amazing to me that any information at all about this remedy has survived the ‘conspiracy of silence' or outright destruction of records and so on.

GG:   The only reason Essiac is known today is by word of mouth and because Essiac is what it is. What will keep Essiac known is its effectiveness. Rene said it years ago. She said ‘Look, if Essiac doesn't have any merit it will kill itself.' Of course, she knew full well that if people had the correct herbs, the remedy would stand on its own. And that is exactly what Essiac has done over this period of time that we've been disseminating the information.

Rene also found that Essiac was a strong preventative. These findings were substantiated by Dr. Albert Schatz, at Temple University, who discovered the cure for tuberculosis.

Rene found that Essiac would normalise the thyroid gland. My wife was on two grains of thyroid since the sixth grade. After I met her, she started taking Essiac, and she hasn't taken a grain of thyroid since.

Rene also found that Essiac would heal stomach ulcers within three to four weeks. She felt that ulcers were a precursor to cancer.

Sir Frederick Banting, the co - discoverer of insulin, wanted to work with Rene. She had clinical cases where a person on insulin discontinued it with the Essiac, since no one knew how Essiac would interact with insulin. Apparently, Essiac regulated the pancreas in cases of diabetes mellitus. So these people then became insulin free.

Another thing I've found out with Essiac is that I've experienced the most perfect health. It's amazing. I sleep like a baby, have all kinds of energy and no sickness, not even a cold or flu.

I also worked with the AIDS Project Los Angeles through their Long Beach and San Pedro districts. They had sent 179 patients home to die. They all had pnemocysts carinu and histoplasmoses. Their weight was down to about 100 pounds. Their T - 4 cell counts were less than ten. The project gave me five of these patients. I took them off the AZT and the DDI and put them on Essiac three times a day. Those are the only ones alive today. The other 174 are dead.

ER:   That is incredible! But what kind of lives are they leading today?

GG:   They're exercising three times a day, eating three meals a day. Their weight is back to normal. For all intents and purposes you wouldn't know they were sick a day in their lives. But this information is not being disseminated either, because AIDS is on the horizon as another big money-maker.  

ER:   So, in your own personal experience, this herbal remedy works to - I'm going to quote you here and say ‘cure' - cancer, thyroid conditions, diabetes, AIDS, ulcers...

GG:   It also cures the common cold. Essiac elevates the immune system. I've been taking one ounce for seven years, and in seven years I haven't had a cold, flu or virus.

ER:   And all this from a single Native herbal remedy?

GG:   Yes, although Rene did alter it. She altered it with Turkish rhubarb root (Rheum palmotum). Turkish rhubarb has a 5,000 year history. It actually came up from India into China, and was then taken by the British. 

ER:   Turkish rhubarb root certainly is not native to the country, or available here. Herbs from foreign countries are fumigated and irradiated, so is it a good idea to use Turkish rhubarb?

GG:   You can substitute ordinary rhubarb root. The other two ingredients are burdock root (Arctium lappa) and the inner bark of slippery elm (Ulmas fulva). They are easy to obtain, usually. Sheep's sorrel (Rumex acetosella) is what destroys the cancer cells. The other three herbs are blood purifiers.

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.

ER:   What about quantities? Some herbs are toxic.

GG:   Even its worst enemy could never lay claim that Essiac has any deleterious side - effects whatsoever. 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 ounces in the morning and two ounces around noontime. That's a high dosage. Rene had the correct herbs and she used as little as one ounce a week.

ER:   Gary, it's been very interesting to speak to you.

GG:   It's been a pleasure. You're opening a Pandora 's Box, you know, publishing this interview.

ER:   I think you're the one who's done that. Would you tell the people how to get our book and the information on Essiac?

GG:   They simply call me in California on (310) - 271 - 9931. The book is 35 US dollars. The formula is free.

Just before moving on to the actual formula and other information, I think most readers would agree that the foregoing interview, although most enlightening, is also very disturbing, especially to those who have been or still are victims of cancer, either personally or through a loved one.

In July 1991, the Canadian Journal of Herbalism published an article, ‘Old Ontario Remedies', about Essiac. The article gives specific information on the ingredients of Essiac and includes descriptions of the herbs. Sheep's sorrel, for example, is a folk remedy for tumours.

The article also warns of high oxalic content in two of the herbs, making the remedy unsafe for persons with kidney ailments or arthritic conditions.

The article concludes: ‘Essiac is not a hoax or a fraud. To hear experiences described by the patients themselves cannot help but convince observers that dramatic and beneficial changes definitely took place in many, but not all, of those who received the remedy. Although the focus on Essiac has been as a cancer treatment, it alleviated and sometimes cured many chronic and degenerative conditions because it cleanses the blood as well as the liver and strengthens the immune system.'

NEXUS, one of the most informative international magazines, which specialises in suppressed information has, over a period of years, published several articles on Essiac. An interesting point worthy of mention is that the edition stated in Supplement. 3 Dec 1997 - Jan 1998, ‘We have yet to receive a single letter telling us of someone's health condition deteriorating as a result of experimenting with health approaches, published in NEXUS.'

Indeed, in ‘LETTERS TO THE EDITOR', one of many people substantiated the claims made by Dr. Glum, as can be judged by the letter reproduced here:

LETTERS  TO THE EDITOR (NEXUS 2/27, AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 1995)

ESSIAC SUCCESS

Dear Duncan,

First, let me thank you for the great service you have rendered me and thousands of my fellow cancer sufferers. I first read of Essiac in your magazine about two years ago.

I had been suffering from a large pre - malignant gastric ulcer which had so far resisted modern medicine. My doctor was already talking about the possibility of sub - total removal of my stomach or at least over -sewing the ulcer.

The moment I read your great article I went out and bought the powder version of Essiac. After one month, symptoms disappeared and I actually gained weight and energy.

For your reader's benefit, I take 3-5 grams daily on cereal, but I must emphasise the powdered raw herb is by far superior to tincture or tea. Essiac cleanses the tissues while soothing and imparting its anti - cancer actions.

Obtaining a regular supply has been a problem since out corrupt medico - legal system and its strong-arm TGA continues to fine and goal anyone who does not wish to limit themselves to their particular form of medicine.

I hope that my experience will bring comfort and healing to a few more people. Once again, a big thank you to you and your staff.

Yours faithfully,

F.W., Australia

Further Reading:

• Thomas Richard, The Essiac Report (ISBN 0-9639818-0-3) published in 1993 by The Alternative Treatment Information Network, 1244 Ozeta Terrace, Los Angeles, CA 90069 USA; Telephone + 1 310 278 6611.

• Essiac for Cancer, Info Pack, 58 pages; includes reprints of articles published in NEXUS. Price: £9.00, inc. postage in UK. Available from NEXUS UK Office: 55 Queens Road, East Grinstead, West Sussex, RH19 1BG; Telephone 01342 324574.

Copies of ‘Calling of an Angel' and ‘Full Disclosure' (the story of the creation of AIDS) by Dr. Gary Glum can be obtained from: Betty Edwards, Wellspring Herbal ‘Glandewi', Pontgarreg, Llangrannop, Llandysal, Ceredigon SA446AJ; Telephone 01239 654458. The price is £26.50 each (inc. p&p). Betty also sells Essiac, which she has now to call ‘Herbal Elixan' due to the Resperin Corporation copywriting the original name.

By the way, should anyone happen to read this tongue - in - cheek, and either think to themselves or say quite openly that it is a load of rubbish, and that Betty Edwards and people like her are mountebanks, I would like to make a few pertinent observations. This lady has been involved in the making and distribution of Essiac for over ten years. The ever increasing numbers of people requesting this product live in Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Turkey, Thailand, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand, to mention but a few countries.

Think, just for one moment, how long any business, which depends on word of mouth recommendation and NOT MASS MEDIA ADVERTISING, could survive if the product it supplied did not live up to the claims made by the people who sang it's praises?

Aidan Hoey and his wife Angela, apart from running a clinic, are also part of the Information Pool at 2 Glasmeen rd. Glasrevin, Dublin (Tel. 00353 1864 1541.) They also supply Essiac.

When I interviewed Mr. Hoey, among many others, in connection with this work he proved to be a mine of information, supplying me with names of people who had been helped through Essiac and one doctor who could not understand why the virtues of Essiac were not making international headlines. (Perhaps this document will enlighten him).

Indeed, what I subsequently learned after speaking to this man would erode most people's scepticism like nitric acid.

Should you wish to make Essiac for yourself by following the formula below, you can purchase the necessary ingredients from: Hambledon Herbs, Court Farm, Miverton, Somerset. (Tel. 01823 401204)

Another mine of information is Peter Shearer, the Honourable Secretary of the Essiac Information Pool. He can be contacted at 18 Orchard Rise, Newtonbreda, Belfast BT8 4DA. (Tel. 01232 648636). 

ESSIAC FORMULA (as supplied by Dr. Gary Glum)

Supplies Needed

5 - Gallon stainless steel pot

3 - Gallon stainless steel pot, with lid

Stainless steel fine - mesh double strainer

Stainless steel funnel

Stainless steel spatula

12 or more 16 - oz amber glass bottles with airtight caps (not childproof caps)

2 gallons sodium - free distilled water

Measuring cup

Kitchen scale with ounce (oz) measurements

Essiac Formula Ingredients

6.5 cups Burdock Root, cut (Arctium lappa)

16 oz Sheep's Sorrel herb, powdered (Rumex acetsella)

1 oz Turkey Rhubarb root, powdered (Rheum palmatum)

4 oz Slippery Elm bark, powdered (Ulmus fulva)

Preparation

• 1.) Mix Essiac formula ingredients thoroughly.

• 2.) Bring sodium - free distilled water to a rolling boil in 5 - Gallon pot with lid on (approx. 30 minutes at sea level).

• 3.) Stir in 1 cup Essiac formula. Replace lid and continue boiling for 10 minutes.

• 4.) Turn off stove. Scrape down sides of pot with spatula and stir mixture thoroughly. Replace lid.

• 5.) Allow pot to remain closed for 12 hours; then turn stove to full heat for 20 minutes.

• 6.) Turn off stove. Strain liquid into 3 - Gallon pot, and clean 5 - Gallon pot and strainer. Then strain filtered liquid back into 5 - Gallon pot.

• 7.) Use funnel to pour hot liquid into bottles immediately, taking care to tighten caps. Allow bottle to cool; then tighten caps again.

• 8.) Refrigerate. Essiac contains no preservative agents. If mould should develop within the bottle, discard immediately.

CAUTION:   All bottles and caps must be sterilised after use if you plan to re - use them for Essiac. Bottle caps must be washed and rinsed thoroughly, and may be cleaned with a 3% solution of food grade hydrogen peroxide in water.

Directions for Use

Heat 4 tablespoons (2 oz) sodium - free distilled water in a stainless steel pot. Add 4 tablespoons of Essiac (shake bottle first). Mix and drink.

Take at bedtime, at least two hours after eating.

Good Luck and Good Health.