From: gparks@fox.nstn.ns.ca (Gary Parks)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Essiac: Nature's Cure for Cancer
Date: 8 Nov 92 15:28:00 GMT
Organization: Joshua Custom Computing

In article <3797@ceylon.gte.com> RR04@bunny.gte.com (Rob Robertson) writes:
>From: RR04@bunny.gte.com (Rob Robertson)
>Subject: Essiac: Nature's Cure for Cancer
>Date: 6 Nov 92 18:03:04 GMT
>
>  Recently I was given a photocopy of an article which appeared in a 
>magazine called _Wildfire_ (Wildfire Vol. 6 No.1) entitled "Essiac: 
>Nature's Cure for Cancer, An Interview with DR. GARY L. GLUM by Elisabeth 
>Robinson. The following is the introduction to the question-and-answer 
>article.
>
>                        Introduction
>
>  Rene Caisse was a nurse living in Canada who for a period of almost 
>sixty years treated hundreds of people with an herbal remedy she called 
>Essiac. She discovered this remedy through a patient in the hospital where 
>she worked who had been cured of cancer. The patient had used an herbal 
>remedy given her by an Ojibway herbalist.
>  
>Rene left the hospital in 1922 at age 33, went to Bracebridge, Ontario, 
>Canada where she began administering Essiac to all who came to her. The 
>majority of those whom she treated came on referral with letters from 
>their physicians certifying they had incurable or terminal forms of cancer 
>and that they had been given up by the medical profession as untreatable.
> 
> Rene began gathering the plants and preparing the herbal remedy herself 
>in her own kitchen, in a building lent her for her patients. She 
>administered Essiac both orally and by injection. In cases where there was 
>severe damage to life support organs, her patients died- but they lived 
>far longer than the medical profession had predicted, and, more 
>significantly, they lived free of pain. Still others, listed as hopeless 
>and terminal, but without severe damage to life support organs, were cured 
>and living 35-45 years (many are still living).
>  
>So startling was the effectiveness of this simple herbal remedy, it could 
>not be ignored, and the Canadian Ministry of Health and Welfare and the 
>Parliament became involved. Friends, former patients, and grateful 
>families petitioned Canadian officialdom for Rene Caisse's right to 
>administer the remedy to anyone who asked for it without the threat of 
>interference from authorities. Fifty-five thousand signatures were 
>collected on the petition. In 1938, Essiac came within three votes of 
>being legalized by the Ontario government as a remedy for terminal cancer 
>patients.
>
>  The story of Rene Caisse, her life, her work, and the effectiveness of 
>the remedy she named Essiac, is told in a book Sun Bear received, _Calling 
>of an Angel_ by Dr. Gary L. Glum of Los Angeles.
>
>*************************************
>
>... the article continues with Dr. Glum painting a picture of Essiac as a 
>simple and extremely effective herbal medication which has been supressed 
>by a greedy, cynical and immoral medical establishment.
>
>If anyone knows anything about this medicine, magazine, Dr. Glum, Rene 
>Caisse, ANYTHING AT ALL, please Email me immediately as time is of the 
>essence right now.
>
>Thanks people,
>                   Rob
>
>
>Rob Robertson
>GTE Laboratories          (617)466-4144 vox
>40 Sylvan Rd.                (617)890-9320 fax
>Waltham, Mass. 02254
>"There is nothing new under the sun..."


Rob,
 I am a terminal cancer patient,lung cancer at present in remission and I 
have no guarentees in this life and live from day to day. I also would like 
to receive any info of this nature.
        Gary
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