
Essiac Extract
ESSIAC is an herbal decoction with proven healing properties. Freely given by an Ojibwa medicine man in 1892, it has generated one of the most compelling stories in modern medicine. Rene M Caisse, the woman who spelled her name backwards to give it a name,cured her mother of terminal cancer with it in 1924, then proceeded to successfully treat thousands of cancer patients over the next 54 years The government and the medical establishment in both the U.S. and Canada reacted with vindictiveness,surveilling her, sabotaging her research and threatening her with arrest and imprisonment. She persisted but so did the establishment,and today Essiac is only slightly closer to legalization as a treatment for cancer than it was in 1924 when Rene Caisse cured her mother with it. There is change afoot, compelling change in public attitutes about personal choice in health care. There are new laws on the books in several states,laws that legalize the use of unapproved therapies by physicians (IE