Nurse Rene M Caisse wanted only to ease human suffering, to help citizen afflicted by a terrible disease, and to prove the efficacy of the discovery she had made. She had no thoughts of personal gain. Yet she was continually harassed by Canadian health authorities and threatened with arrest and imprisonment for treating citizen with an herbal remedy she called "Essiac". Essiac was, and is, a flourishing treatment, and in many cases, a cure for cancer. From the 1920s until her death in 1978 at the age of 90, the Canadian born nurse from Bracebridge, Ontario successfully treated and cured thousands of cancer patients who had been given up on by the medical profession as being incurable or untreatable.
She modified an old Canadian Indian herbal remedy, and named it Essiac (Caisse spelled backwards). The formula, a aggregate of four natural ingredients, was administered both orally and by injection to certified terminally ill cancer patients by Caisse under the supervision of suited physicians. Many of these patients lived a additional 35 to 40 years, totally free from cancer.
Free Permit Practice Test
Caisse's involvement began in 1922; when, working as a surgical nurse, she came over an 80 year old inpatient with a badly scarred, but healed breast. The inpatient had been cured nearly 30 years previously of breast cancer by an Indian herbal drink. Caisse asked the woman for the formula, mental she would use it herself if ever she advanced cancer. Her life was never to be the same after that.
In 1924, Rene's aunt was diagnosed as having advanced, inoperable stomach cancer. She was given only six months to live. Caisse obtained permission from her aunt's physician, Dr. R.O. Fisher, to try out the Essiac formula on her. Caisse gathered the herbs and ready the tea which her aunt drank daily for a period of two months. She experienced a full rescue and lived a additional 21 years. The cancer never came back.
Dr. Fisher was impressed with this success and he teamed up with Caisse. Together they treated cancer patients who had been given up on by their doctors. Many of their patients improved to a great extent. They also conducted laboratory experiments on mice, testing and modifying the formula to heighten its effectiveness.
Other doctors heard of Rene from Dr. Fisher and had patients treated by Rene that they had failed to cure with conventional methods. Some of these doctors were so impressed with the results she obtained that in 1926, nine of them signed a request for retrial to the department of National health and Welfare in Ottawa, attesting to the effectiveness they had witnessed Essiac to have in the reduction of tumour size, relief from pain, prolonging of life in hopeless cases, and the "remarkably beneficial results" Essiac showed. The request for retrial urged that Caisse be "given an opening to prove her work in a large way." The action the request for retrial provoked was unexpected.
The Ottawa department of health and Welfare sent two doctors to investigate, armed with powers to have Rene Caisse arrested for practising treatment without a licence. This was the starting of the persecution by government officials and those in the medical profession which was to consequent Caisse for nearly 50 years as she attempted to render help to those in need.
Caisse was able to make these first two investigating doctors back down when she explained how she operated under the supervision of suited physicians, only at their request, and only on those terminally ill patients who had been failed by orthodox treatments. She also made no charge for her services, and suitable only voluntary contributions. She was able to fly arrest.
Caisse's set up was impressive to Dr. W.C. Arnold who was one of the investigators, and he urged her to continue testing Essiac on mice at the Christie road Hospital in Toronto. She did so from 1928 to 1930, and her experiments went well. Mice which had been inoculated with human cancer were injected with Essiac, and the treatment regressed their tumours.
Rene gave up nursing so that she could devote more time to her Essiac research, and the treatment of patients which doctors continued to send to her. She saw approximately 30 patients per day in her apartment.
She was convinced of the genuine merit of the Essiac treatment as she continued to treat more and more people, manufacture case notes as she went. She decided that her evidence would be persuasive to the medical profession, and she arranged to meet with Dr. Fredrick Banting, famous co-discoverer of insulin, and gift him with her case notes.
Dr. Banting was impressed, and offered her a share in his laboratory at the Banting Institute. He also expressed an interest in working with her. Caisse declined his offer because she wanted to continue to treat cancer patients.
The Bracebridge Clinic
In 1935, a Dr. A.F. Bastedo who was impressed with Caisse's work, arranged for her to open a cancer clinic in her home of Bracebridge. This clinic operated for seven years, and in that time Caisse treated thousands of cancer sufferers, achieving impressive results.
Just after the clinic opened, Rene's 72 year old mother, Friselde was diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer, and given only days to live. Caisse began treating her mom with Essiac injections, and she made a full recovery. She lived a additional 18 years, dying of heart failure aged 90.
For Rene, this made all her work, and all the harassment she endured worthwhile. Essiac had given her mom 18 years of life when orthodox medical science said she had only days.
In 1937, Caisse was invited to Chicago to treat 30 terminally ill cancer patients under the supervision of five doctors. So impressed were these doctors by her results that they offered to set up a clinic in Chicago for her if she would move to the Us. She beloved to remain in her home of Canada though, and so declined the offer.
Other doctors heard about and visited the clinic at Bracebridge. One of these was Dr. Emma Carson who stayed at the clinic for 24 days in 1937. Dr. Carson had come as a skeptic, intending at first to stay only a day or two at Bracebridge. She ended up examining over 400 patients, both in the clinic, and at their homes where they were getting on with their lives after having been cured by Essiac. As she examined and talked to these people, her skepticism melted away.
In a report Dr. Carson later wrote on the clinic, she stated, "Really, the expand obtainable and the rapidity of mend was verily marvellous, and must be seen to convincingly confirm belief."
In 1938, a bill was presented to the Ontario Parliament accompanied by over 55,000 signatures on a request for retrial which supported its proposal that Rene Caisse be legally allowed to treat cancer sufferers with Essiac. The request for retrial was signed by many famous physicians, past patients of Caisse's and their families. The bill failed to pass by just three votes.
Instead, a Royal Cancer Commission was set up to conclude the inherent merit of Essiac as a cancer treatment. This Commission, consisting of six orthodox doctors headed up by an Ontario consummate Court Justice was a total farce, a blatant effort to discredit Essiac.
Of the 387 of Caisse's patients who arrived to testify before this Commission in 1939, only 49 were permitted to speak.
In notice of these 49 cases, the Commission would not accept x-ray reports as diagnoses. It stated that the doctors in these cases had made wrong diagnoses, even when some of these patients had been separately diagnosed by up to four separate suited physicians.
When the Commission did recognise that a inpatient had been cured of cancer, it attributed this to old treatments the inpatient had received such as radiation therapy or surgery. In some cases it was quite clear that conventional treatments had had no consequent on the disease. Nowhere would the Commission riposte that any inpatient had been cured or even benefited from Essiac treatments.
It concluded, "The Commission is of the thought that the evidence adduced does not elaborate any favourable windup as to the merits of Essiac as a remedy for cancer."
Caisse felt beaten, and feared arrest and imprisonment for practising treatment without a licence, and in 1942 she closed the Bracebridge Clinic, and went into seclusion. She would thereafter treat patients in her home in secret.
In 1959, Caisse went to the Brusch medical Centre in Cambridge, Massachusetts where she had been invited to treat final cancer patients and do additional laboratory experiments on mice under the supervision of 18 physicians. She worked with Dr. Charles A. Brusch, director of the clinic, and doctor to old Us President John F. Kennedy.
Dr. Brusch was convinced of Essiac's efficacy in treating cancer, and even made a notarised statement in April of 1990 in which he said, "I endorse this therapy even today, for I have in fact cured my own cancer, the customary site of which was the lower bowels, through Essiac alone."
In 1977, just before Caisse died, she turned the possession of the formula over to Dr. Brusch and to the Resperin Corporation who were to test and develop it.
This was exactly what Rene had always wanted - for Essiac to be clinically tested through properly documented trials where there would be no allegations of misdiagnoses after the fact, and where patients' expand would be observed and authenticated through reports drawn up by suited people.
But it never came to pass. Resperin's trials, which began in 1978, showed promise at first, but were halted in 1982 because of assertedly substandard procedures and documentation as well as poor results. A report was issued by the Canadian health and Welfare department which stated, "No clinical evidence exists to maintain claims that Essiac is an efficient treatment for cancer."
Dr. Gary Glum, a chiropractor from California, who published a biography of Rene Caisse in 1988 titled" Calling of an Ange"l alleges that this 1982 report was a deception.
Dr. Glum says that the Resperin Corporation worked intimately with the Canadian Ministry of health and Welfare. He says that documents were falsified in the course of the Resperin tests, and notes a exact case of a man who had come to Rene Caisse to thank her for Essiac, and for being part of the trial program. This man had been listed as dead in the Resperin case reports.
Glum additional alleges that after Caisse's death in 1978, the Canadian Ministry of health and Welfare burned all of her case notes which she had collected since she had began treating citizen with Essiac.
Glum's involvement with Essiac has put him to great personal and financial strain. He states that Us government officials confiscated copies of "Calling of an Angel" (which he published himself) that he had stored at his medical practice. Thousands of copies of the book were also confiscated by Canadian border authorities who said that it was "advertising" an unapproved drug. He never received these copies back.
Dr. Glum received the Essiac formula from a personal friend who had been cured from cancer by Essiac, and he was subsequently able to verify the authenticity of this formula with a woman named Mary McPherson who worked very intimately with Rene Caisse for quite some time, and whose own mom had been cured of cancer in the 1930s at the Bracebridge Clinic.
In 1988, Dr. Brusch turned over his possession on Essiac to Elaine Alexander, a broadcaster and radio producer from Vancouver. Alexander interviewed many patients who had been cured of cancer by Essiac, and kept well up on events surrounding the treatment for some 20 years. She arranged for Essiac to be manufactured and distributed.
Ingredients
Essiac consists of four coarse herbs: sheep sorrel (Rumex acetosella), burdock root (Arctium lappa), slick elm bark (Ulmus fulva), and turkey rhubarb root (Rheum palmatum).
At least three of these herbs - sheep sorrel, burdock root, and turkey rhubarb have been found in discrete contemporary studies to display antitumour activity.
As well as acting to shrink tumour masses, it was Caisse's principles that the ingredients in Essiac served to purify the blood. It has been known in folk treatment for many years that burdock root acts to cleanse the blood.
Caisse's principles would seem to be supported by many Essiac patients afflicted with internal cancers who reported hardening of their tumours, followed by distinct softening of the mass. Many would then report discharging of fleshy matter along with pus. This would seem to indicate diseased tissue being carried out of the body as tumours would disappear after the discharges had taken place.
Caisse never wanted the group to know the ingredients of her formula. Her fear was that citizen suffering from cancer, complex in a life or death situation, would fetch the wrong ingredients, or put in order the formula incorrectly. She knew that permissible establishment with very exacting measurements of the ingredients was vital to Essiac's potential to treat cancer.
Today, Essiac may be obtained from discrete inexpressive distributors and vendors. It is sold as a "food supplement", and no claims may be made with regard to its inherent merit as a treatment for cancer. Doing so is illegal as it is unapproved as a medicine, and anyone selling it, manufacture such claims, is open to prosecution.
Because it is so vital that Essiac be ready properly, using the accurate ingredients in the right ratios, those wishing to use it should thought about examine the background of the source from where they intend to buy it. There are many bogus copies of Essiac on the store which have no value as treatments, and can even be dangerous.
Rene Caisse never claimed that Essiac is a cure for cancer, even though many of her patients did, as did many of the doctors she worked with over the years. She sought to relieve her patients of pain, and to control the disease. But it is undeniable that many of her patients were given many more years of life - free from pain or free from cancer - that they would not have had without Essiac
see page Essiac - Nature's Cancer medicine
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