What is The Miracle of Essiac?
The “founder” is a Canadian nurse named Rene Caisse (1892-1978). Nurse Caisse found the formula while caring for a woman who had been diagnosed with breast cancer and was unable to afford surgery. The woman sought help from a native Ojibwa medicine man who gave her this recipe for a tonic. The Ojibwa natives have been preparing this cleansing tea/brew for generations. After taking this herb mixture, the woman recovered from her breast cancer and it never returned. She passed the recipe to Rene Caisse who became interested in using it for her terminally ill patients. In the early 1920’s, Rene Caisse began giving this four-herb mixture to her patients, which were primarily terminally ill with cancer in a brewed liquid form of “tea”. She even administered this tea to her aunt, who was terminally ill with stomach and liver cancer. Her aunt also recovered and her cancer never retuned. Rene Caisse began calling the tea “Essiac” which is her name spelled backwards.
