Essiac Essentials

wonderful death, absolutely on his own terms. He tolerated the high dose of steroid medication very well once he started taking Essiac. The continual discomfort when eating stopped almost immediately, he no longer needed a daily dose of laxatives and he maintained excellent energy and immune system levels, only becoming completely bedridden during the last twenty-four hours of life.
    “The day before he died, his pulse and blood pressure readings were normal. The local doctor couldn’t believe it when I called late the following evening, asking him to come and certify my husband’s death. Unlike the majority of cancer patients, Greg did not die as a result of secondary infection caused by a weakening of the immune system. Death occurred when the pressure of the tumour on the brain stem caused sufficient deterioration in the vital functions governing breathing and the action of the heart. The bottles of morphine that he had been prescribed as a precaution were returned to the pharmacy with their seals unbroken.
    “We know that the tea made a valuable contribution to both the quality of his life and to the nature of his death.
    Apart from the inevitable facial swelling, he did not put on a lot of weight and we had fun until the day he died. He was cremated in the same clothes he had worn when we were married eighteen months before.
    “I started drinking the tea in March 1994 as a tonic while I was nursing my husband and have taken it continually ever since as an experiment. I have to dilute the tea x 4 so as not to aggravate the scarring of a particularly nasty old duodenal ulcer that began life when I was sixteen, but my energy levels have remained high and I don’t catch colds or ‘flu. Most importantly for me, as someone who has been allergic to sucrose and fructose for many years, I am now able to eat most fruits and some dried fruit. Desserts are no longer ‘just an apple’ and candida is a thing of the past.”
     
Rene Caisse at the Sub-Committee hearing in Bracebridge, February 1939:
 
“...even the patients who died got relief from pain, and some of them had from eight months to two years comfortable life. I think I have letters from their families thanking me for the relief from pain, and the fact that these patients did not have to take narcotics before their death, and that they were conscious almost to the last, and seemed to be free from pain, and died in comfort. ”
     
    L.Redford, ex-theatre nurse, UK, June 1998 “My cousin, aged thirty-four and with two small children, was diagnosed with malignant breast cancer in May 1997. The following month she underwent surgery involving a total mastectomy and lymphectomy. She was hoping to start chemotherapy and radiotherapy within a week but the wound would not heal. The nurses were changing the dressings every third day. They had tried everything, so after I had made up my cousin’s next batch of Essiac, I wrapped the leftover herbs into a gauze wrap, like a poultice, and put it directly on to the wound. The effect was instantaneous. My cousin felt a sensation like having a tooth drawn and the pus began draining out of the wound. The district nurse brought some of the hospice nurses in to see it. They could hardly believe it but, within a couple of days, the wound was healed enough to consider chemotherapy.
    “My cousin has taken Essiac continually for a year now and her health is steadily improving with each day. She holds great store by the tea and believes it has helped her immensely. She was the only one on her chemotherapy course who didn’t need any changes in her cocktail of drugs, she had no nausea or vomiting and she did not lose her hair. A couple of weeks ago she did have a scare as she had begun to lose weight and discovered a swelling on her right side over her liver. After exhaustive tests she was given the all-clear with no signs of metastasis either in her liver, kidneys or gall bladder. Needless to say, she never misses her daily appointment with Nurse Caisse’s wonderful legacy. ”

     

Sheep sorrel Planting Trials
     
Trial One
    Site: an established, organically controlled vegetable garden in Southern England, semi-shaded early morning, late afternoon.
    Plot size: 1 metre/3 9ins square
    Soil type: good loam
    Ph: neutral to acidic
    Situation: Sheep sorrel plants in second year of active growth, having been raised from seed the previous year. Young plants thinned when dormant the previous winter, roots dried, powdered and