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"Essiac" as known in the marketplace today is comprised of 4 herbs: Sheep
Sorrel (rumex acetosella), Burdock Root (arctium lappa), Slippery Elm
Bark (ulmus fulva), and Turkish Rhubarb Root (rheum palmatum). Thousands
know this recipe, as every herbalist on every corner has it, and it is
considered to be in the public domain.
"Essiac" began decades ago when a Canadian nurse, Rene Caisse, received a
herbal recipe from an elderly female patient, who was in an Ontario
hospital where Rene was the head nurse. The recipe she received contained
8 herbs, given to the woman years before by an Ojibwa medicine man. He
offered his help, because he knew the woman was suffering from breast
cancer. The patient recovered from her cancer and saw no return during
the span of the next 30 years. In 1922, she gave Rene the recipe in
response to Rene's request that it could possibly help others.
Rene used this ORIGINAL recipe two years later on her aunt, who was
terminally ill with stomach and liver cancer. Her aunt recovered and
lived another 21 years, dying of old age. Rene and her aunt's doctor
began experimenting with the herbal tea and research began on mice. The
doctor, Dr. R O Fisher, began using it on his terminally ill patients, and
some improved greatly.
Rene and the doctor began to vary the formula. They injected one herb
(Sheep Sorrel) and administered the others orally in liquid form. The
Indian medicine man and his people never injected it, they simply made a
tea, but researchers want to RESEARCH things to find out what makes them
"tick", and so Rene became a researcher. Only one herb could be injected,
and only into the muscle. It was painful for many very sick people, and
many, very emaciated, hardly had any muscles for the injections. This
method was used for some years and there were known successes about which
stories were written. There were failures too, as many sufferers were so
far gone, they had little time left. In others, the disease had damaged
vital organs beyond repair.
The formula used varied slightly over the years from the ORIGINAL one that
the woman received from the medicine man in 1892. This change happened as
patients were monitored and results were seen. In 1959, Rene Caisse went
to the Brusch Medical Clinic in Cambridge, Massachusetts to join Dr
Charles Armao Brusch, MD, (private physician to President John F Kennedy).
She became partners with him with the intent of forming the "Rene Caisse
Cancer Research Foundation", a charitable foundation, whose purpose was
the utilization of this treatment for cancer in humans. They stayed
partners, co-developers and co-owners until her death in 1978 at the age
of 91. The formula, as used at that time, was still partly injected, with
the rest of the herbs taken orally.
Dr Brusch, a medical doctor of noted background, had developed an interest
in other natural forms of healing; the objective always the "well-being"
of the patient. He had set-up the first acupuncture clinic to collect
research data, and it was operating in his medical clinic when Rene Caisse
arrived in 1959. He was the first doctor in the Western hemisphere to
initiate a plan similar to Medicare within his clinic for those without
money for medical help. He was extremely interested in herbs and their
power to heal, which he learned from a long-time friend, a master
herbalist from Lathrop, Missouri.
Dr Brusch was not impressed with the injection as it was being used at the
time, and further research began. Experiments were done with injectable
solutions, each vial containing a different herb in the formula. They
failed to isolate a single outstanding herb. Reactions and results were
not so good, so the injections were stopped and the medication returned to
a larger oral medication. It was proven that best results were obtained
by the COMBINATION of the proper active herbs, and not in just one of the
herbs. A double blind study was done in which other herbal formulas were
used, all of which proved to be inferior.
Some of the positive results obtained were: Cessation of pain, increased
appetite (emaciated patients gained weight), improved sleep, feeling of
well-being, energy, a noted decrease in depression, anxiety and fear, and
a prolongation of life and a decrease of nodular masses. Dr Brusch stated
that the herbal tea identified the toxins, gathered them, broke them down,
and discharged them.
Through the years some testing was done at noted facilities such as Sloan
Kettering, Northwestern University, and Christie Street Hospital in
Toronto, as well as many others. However, as Rene Caisse would NEVER give
over the full formula, conclusive results remained incomplete. In 1975
she only passed the injectable herb over to Sloan-Kettering to test. They
commenced to freeze it - the ONE thing you cannot do with these herbs -
and rendered it useless to test. Rene withdrew it immediately from them
with disdain.
In 1977, following a lengthy and in-depth article in a national Canadian
magazine "Homemaker's", a retired chemist was shown the article, and was
fascinated by reading that Nurse Caisse had never given the formula to
anyone (other than her partner with whom she worked). He determined that
he would go and see her and talk her into releasing the formula to him.
He had never heard of the woman before, even though she lived and worked
in the same province, and many stories had been written about her. He
admitted this on the "Stayin' Alive" talk radio show, when he was being
interviewed by broadcaster, Elaine Alexander.
Gradually he increased his proposal to Rene, for she kept turning him
down. She had already had 8 large offers over the years to disclose the
formula, but always declined, because she believed it would exploited.
Finally, he told both Rene Caisse and Dr Brusch that he was going to be
financially funded by a large Canadian mining corporation, and that he
would open 5 clinics across the country to treat terminally ill cancer
patients free of charge, if they would only release the formula to him.
Rene and Dr Brusch felt that perhaps this was the last chance to get the
herbal tea "out" to the people who needed it the most - the terminal, the
hopeless!
When a contract was drawn up on Oct 26th, 1977, there was very little in
it for Rene who had given 56 years of her life to this herbal tea. Dr
Brusch, who was to share any royalty with Rene, withdrew in this capacity
and became only a witness to the signing of the contract. Rene
reluctantly passed over a 4 herb formula that day in 1977, as she already
had great doubts about what she had been told. Her doubts proved to be
true when nothing seemed to be happening and no clinics were ever opened.
To this day no royalty has ever been paid from this contract to the "Rene
Caisse Estate". She gave it away FREE for 56 years, and has been cheated
ever since. THIS CONTRACT WAS MATERIALLY BREACHED.
In 1978 Rene Caisse died. Her "hey-day" was from 1924 to 1942, when she
closed her cancer clinic, which she had operated for 8 years in
Bracebridge, Ontario. At that time, the medical powers-that-be formed a
"Cancer Commission" which had the power to decree what could be used to
treat cancer. Rene feared being charged, even though all around her,
including many medical doctors, were completely aware of her outstanding
successes. Dr Brusch continued to work with the formula they had
developed (now called "Flor*Essence" as a trade name in the market place),
and many of his patients were the beneficiaries.
In 1984, Dr Brusch was interviewed by a long-time radio producer and
broadcaster, Elaine Alexander, who broadcast out of Vancouver, Canada.
This woman, as the producer of a highly listened to radio "talk" show,
produced a few programmes on this herbal tea in the mid '70's, and had
researched it in-depth for many years. In 1984, as a broadcaster, she
introduced a new programme called "Stayin' Alive". This show was a
health-oriented show concerned with informing the listeners of the best in
alternate and more natural ways of restoring health. On this show she
again reported on this famous though underrated story.
The listener response was massive and seven 2-hour programmes were
produced covering the herbal tea in every aspect. Dr Brusch was
interviewed a number of times, as were others of importance to the story.
Elaine and Dr Brusch became friends. He was impressed by her long
research of the subject, and her genuine interest. In 1988 they became
partners legally and he passed to her a number of the herbal formula's on
which he and Rene worked at his clinic during the time they were partners
and co-owners.
The larger and further developed formula of this herbal tea, now known as
"Flor*Essence", was the first out on the marketplace in July 1992. It
contains 8 herbs in perfect proportion for synergistic activity. Many
imitators have now jumped on the band-wagon with drops, capsules, liquids,
and dry versions, all claiming to be "The Original Rene Caisse Tea". In
fact the "ORIGINAL" formula has NOT been used since 1924, when Rene Caisse
started experimenting with it after curing her aunt. That was when
modifications were begun, and an injection was developed. Those claiming
otherwise, are simply NOT privy to confidential information and are too
new to the scene.
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