Essiac Tea: Herbal Cancer Cure

Meet Rene Caisse, a nurse from Canada. In 1922 Rene was tending to one of her patients when she noticed some scar tissue on her breast. The woman informed her that it used to be breast cancer but was miraculously healed by an Indian Medicine Man from the Ojibwa tribe with an herbal tea. Eventually that woman gave the herbal tea formula to Rene who named it “Essiac” which is her last named spelled backwards.

 

Two years later Rene's aunt developed cancer. She decided to take the opportunity to test the tea on a cancer patient. After obtaining permission from her aunt's doctor Rene started giving her the tea. After approximately two months of drinking the tea three times daily, her aunt was cured and went on to live for 20 more years. Rene's mother was cured of her liver cancer as well, surviving for another 18 years!

 

Rene eventually opened up a clinic and cured thousands of people from various cancers for little or no fee. Most of her patients were people that had been through the mainstream medical system and had been told they were going to die. They were coming to her for “last chance” treatments. Rene gave treatments of Essiac both orally and intravenously. The vast majority of those that had no damage to major organs survived and lived long normal lives, but of course there were some who didn't make it. All in all her success rates were far superior to the medical establishment and most of her patients were experiencing miraculous recoveries.

 

In 1937 Rene was contacted by Dr. John Wolfer, the director of a tumor clinic at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, IL. He wanted to do clinical trials and arranged for 30 terminal cancer patients to be treated with Essiac Tea under the supervision of five doctors. Rene agreed and crossed the border into the US with her bottles of Essiac Tea. After 18 months of trials the supervising team of doctors concluded that Essiac Tea “prolonged life, shrank tumors, and reduced pain.”

 

Meanwhile back home Rene had been treating up to 600 people per week at her clinic and the outstanding success of her treatments eventually caught the attention of the Canadian Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Canadian Parliament. A legal battle ensued. Rene had so many supporters that she was able to gather 55,000 signatures on a petition to allow Essiac Tea to be an officially recognized cancer treatment. The Ontario Legislature voted and she came up only three votes short of making it happen.

 

This led to a back and forth battle between her and the Canadian officials. They pressed for government trials but she refused to give them the formula unless she got in writing that she wouldn't lose the rights to it because her loyalty was to the people and she wanted to keep treating them for free. They never provided any guarantees that she'd be keeping her formula rights therefore she never gave it to them.

 

Rene also had visitors coming in from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. They visited her regularly trying to get her to divulge the formula. She never complied. Eventually the threat of imprisonment scared Rene into hiding and she closed her clinic doors in 1942. Rene passed away in 1978 at the age of 90. Prior to her passing she had signed the rights to the Essiac Tea formula over to Dr. Charles Brusch, an old friend that she could trust and former personal physician to John F. Kennedy. Brusch himself had used Essiac to cure his own cancer, and was indebted to Rene. She also signed the rights to the formula over to the Respirin Corporation of Toronto to test, manufacture and distribute Essiac Tea. The formula eventually became public after Rene gave it to her best friend, Mary McPherson. This certified true copy of Mary McPherson's two-page affidavit (scanned documents below) was provided by the Commissioner of Affidavits of the Town of Bracebridge, Ontario. Mary McPherson's affidavit is the only verifiable, legal evidence of Rene Caisse's Essiac formula. Important note: the root of the sheep sorrel is an absolutely essential part of the formula.