Can you give us a little background on Rene Caisse?
Yes, this particular article was printed in the Sarasota Eco Report on January 1st 1994 and was voted The Years Best Story. 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 to her by an Ojibwa herbalist. Rene left the hospital in 1922 at age 33, and 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 that they had incurable, or terminal, forms of cancer and that they had been given up by the medical profession as not treatable. 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 to them. How
