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While I could not consider myself an expert on the history of Essiac, yet I do know that it was used successfully to treat cancer by a certain Canadian doctor, who was therefore given considerable trouble by the medical establishment. This man eventually died. His nurse, Mrs. Rene Caisse, however, perpetuated his treatments, and preserved his herbal recipe. Essiac is Mrs. Caisse's name spelled backwards.  This recipe is now patented, I think by Flor-Essence, such that anyone using the name Essiac is in danger of being sued. Hence those who use Mrs. Caisse's recipe usually use the name Ezziac. I'm sure that Flor-Essence, or whoever it is will be vigilant to warn you of the wicked and oppressive medical establishment who only wish to gouge you for millions. I've heard that they sell their "Essiac" product for 28.00 or so for TWO OUNCES!!! Yes, best watch out for those allopaths. The ironic thing is that they don't even use the same recipe as Rene Caisse, having added several herbs to the original formula. It would be a laughing stock were it not all so very evil. To take advantage of the sick used to be considered criminal. Now it is considered the very raison d'etre of the "health professional." Anyway....... . the original formula had four herbs: Burdock Root, cut; Sheep Sorrel, powder; Slippery Elm Powder, and Turkey Rhubarb, powder. The proportions of these herbs are considered important by those who are followers of the Essiac phenomena. It is not my purpose to study the history of Essiac, but simply to make the Ezziac product available at a reasonable profit to our company, and therefore at a reasonable cost to the customer. None of the herbs used to make Ezziac are expensive herbs, so you can make your own cheaper than you can buy the blend, though we sell either. I think you can make about 2.8 lbs. of the blend for about 27.00 or so, while the pre-mixed variety costs you about 51.00. (I buy it pre-mixed..... to Mrs. Caisse's exact specifications) If you buy all the herbs to make the blend you will spend about 48.00.... about the same amount as if you bought it pre-mixed, (51.00), except that you would have enough herb left over to make the next batch for about 20.00, and three more batches after that for about 23.00, with quite a bit of Turkey Rhubarb left over. Compared to 28.00 for 2 oz. of a different recipe in the name of Mrs. Caisse's, we think we offer what is plainly a better deal.

1.5 lbs. Burdock Root, Cut
1 lb. Sheep Sorrel leaf, Powder
4 oz. Slippery Elm Bark, Powder
1 oz. Turkey Rhubarb Root, Powder

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Method:
While I am not aware from precisely what source people are getting their information, most people who call HHR looking for "Ezziac" have been instructed to make a couple of gallons of tea, and then take a couple of tablespoons per day of the tea, that amount of tea lasting, then for several months at this rate of use. While I'm sure that is more convenient, yet to anyone who understands the use of herbs, this advice is severely flawed. First, it is flawed, because tea, like anything else, spoils with time. In fact, in one unrefridgerated day it will be spoiled, or in two or three days in the refridgerator. How would you like to drink a cup of coffee made five weeks ago? I have heard it said that you are supposed to can it like you would peaches, (or whatever), so as to kill all the bacteria which will keep it from spoiling. This may have some merit, but the problem is that taking a quart of this at only a couple of tablespoons a day is still going to leave you with a spoilage problem by the time you get a fourth through the quart. I also wonder about this method, as nothing will replace drinking freshly brewed herbal teas. Again..... how would you like to drink a five week old canned cup of coffee using this method? The decay of its properties to some degree is inevitable.

Furthermore, this method is flawed, because taking only a couple of tablespoons per day is a gross underdosage in the humble opinion of yours truly. While I am not trying to "play doctor", yet I have attained some degree of familiarity with herbal culture, and this small dosage would only be useful in testing Essiac's placebo effect. Perhaps the source of this methodology is Rene Caisse herself..... what then? The mere name "Rene Caisse" cannot make a bad idea, which NO ONE would ever use with any OTHER herb, a good one. Who ever heard of using such a method with any other herb under heaven? And there is nothing magic about Ezziac that its principles of herbal medicinal value are somehow different than all others. If it is Mrs. Caisse who has advised this method, I still think it bad advice, and calculated only towards the failure of the usefulness of the Essiac blend.
Here is what I would recommend, keeping in mind that I am no physician, (neither was Mrs. Caisse), but only one familiar with herbal methodologies. I would suggest taking between two to four tablespoons of the blend, and boiling it in two quarts of water for about 25 minutes, which will boil it down to about a quart and a half, drinking this amount of finished tea within 8-12 hours of its being made, and doing this every day. At this rate of use the 2.8 lb recipe should still last someone 1 1/2- three months, which will still prove vastly more economical than the rate discussed above, at your typical modern gouging price for Essiac, and you will be taking a therapeutic dosage..

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