More on Nurse Rene
In 1922, nurse Rene Caisse of
Haileybury, Ontario, noticed a
female patient with a severely scarred and disfigured
breast. Asking the woman about
her scars, Rene was told an amazing
story of how years earlier the woman
had been diagnosed with breast
cancer. Toronto doctors had told the woman she
must have her breast removed
immediately. However, in
desperation, the woman turned to a more natural route that
had been told to her by an Ojibwa
Indian medicine man.
The Indian medicine man told her of
a combination of herbs to brew into a tea and drink daily.
He told her this would cure the
cancer in her breast and not require it to be removed.
She did as the medicine man instructed
and as she sat telling Rene
the story many years later, she obviously had not had the
surgery and yet she had no recurrence
of the cancer!
Rene asked the patient for the
formula for the tea and wrote
it down but never really pursued making it. A few years
later when her aunt was diagnosed with
inoperable cancer, Rene began
giving the tea to her aunt. After two months of
drinking the tea daily, Rene’s aunt
rallied and lived an
additional 21 years with no recurrence of cancer just as the
lady with breast cancer had done!
In her desire to help the sick, Rene then began to give
the tea to others with wonderful results. People with
various kinds of cancer, diabetes and more seemed to improve
with the use of this tea. Rene decided the unique
combination of these particular herbs somehow seemed
to cause the different organs in the body to "normalize"
helping the body's own immune system to fight and
"correct" whatever was wrong.
This amazing formula, made up only four simple herbs, is
believed to normalize body systems by cleansing the blood,
purging toxic build up, promoting cell repair and aiding in
effective assimilation and elimination. While
incredibly simple, when combined with each other,
these four herbs and their separate individual effects
are greatly enhanced.
Rene decided to called this tea "Essiac" which was her
last name spelled backwards. As time went on, Rene
Caisse continued to "treat" those considered terminally ill
with very positive results. Health officials
vacillated back and forth between a love/hate attitude
toward her. While she never openly claimed the tea
would cure ALL cancers it did seem to have a definite
effect on many and it undeniably promoted wellness,
general good health and strengthened the immune
system.
Rene's desire was to make the tea available to everyone.
She operated a Cancer Treatment Clinic in Canada using her
Essiac Tea for many years, never charging for her services.
Rene used the herbal tea herself everyday and finally died
in
1978 at the age of 90.
Her desire was never for financial gain but rather that
the formula for this old Indian herbal tea could be used to
help mankind. Rene did not want to "sell" her formula
to drug companies since she did not want it to get
tied up in beauracratic "red tape" or "shelved" and
discredited like so many other "natural" remedies. However,
as she grew old, she finally sold the rights to this formula
for only $1. She did this hoping the tea could be
developed and made easily available to the public. Now many
companies are using the four herb tea combination formula
and are marketing it under different versions of the
original name. |