Essex Botanical TM

he "essiac formula" casts an enormous shadow among branded names in the North American herbal community. Behind the product is the true life legend of "Cancer nurse" Rene Caisse ("essiac" is Nurse Rene's last name spelled backwards). During the life of her clinic (1934 to 1942), Caisse is reported to have cured many hundreds of cancer -- of varying types and stages of development -- and for free. (In fact, 55,000 Canadians signed her petition to the Ontario Legislature in favor of her treatment, in addition to 387 patients and an uncounted number of medical doctors). She did it primarily on the strength of just one product, which became known as "essiac."

 

But Caisse did not invent the essiac formula (the lower case "e" is intentional: Essiac® is a registered trademark owned by Dr. Pierre Gaulin (U.S.) and Terry Maloney (Canada)). The basis for the formula is rooted in native Ojibway (a tribe native to Ontario) medicine.

 

In any event, what followed after her death in 1978 is all too characteristic of pettiness and greed we see in the orthodox community -- bickering and in-fighting over trademarks, connection to the legend, and who does and who does not have the "real" essiac formula.

 

With dozens of essiac 'me-too' products now on the market -- some of them true to the original formulation, most of them not, we chose to use the same Canadian source for the essiac formula that we chose for the Hoxsey formula (see below). After a careful review of the underlying documentation, we believe it to be formulated as close to the original as one will find on the market - anywhere.

         Essex Botanical is only priced lower.
Our Assessment: Among phytopharmacologists, the active components within the essiac formula are quite well known, collectively fitting a category that we call "mildly cancerolytic." To call it a "cancer cure" is a real stretch, though there can be no doubt that it is of real benefit as a 'nutraceutical cocktail' for most cancer patients. You should use this formula for the same reason that you should listen to nutritionists who advise you to take regular fresh helpings of chemopreventatives in your diet -- cruciferous vegetables, like broccoli; tomatoes, for their lycopenes; pau d' arco tea, for its hydroquinones, etc.

 

Fighting cancer should be viewed as waging war. And you rarely win a war with only one weapon. 

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