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| pany to share it with the world. Enthusiastic users spread the word that its daily use improved their skin, energy level, allergies, arthritis and other symptoms. |
| Essiac tea was developed in the 1920s by a Canadian nurse, Rene Caisse, who learned of an Ojibwa Indian tea from a patient it had cured of breast cancer years before. To the original blend of burdock root and slippery elm bark, Caisse added sheep sorrel and Turkey rhubarb root and named the result for herself: Essiac is Caisse spelled backward. For many years Caisse treated cancer patients in Canada with excellent results, and, like Harry Hoxsey, she repeatedly offered to participate in any clinical trial orthodox physicians might design. The offer was never accepted, although Canada's legislature came within three votes of authorizing such tests over the objections of its medical establishment. |
| In recent years, Essiac blends have been marketed by corporations that argue over its trademark and licensing while small herb companies quietly sell the ingredients that allow anyone to brew it at home. Every manufacturer and seller of Essiac tea has received reports of significant detoxification and health improvements in humans, pets and farm animals. |
| More recently, biophysicist Hulda Clark, Ph.D., caused a stir in holistic and orthodox circles with her Cure for All Cancers. Clark believes that cancer and other illnesses develop because of internal parasites, especially Fasciolopis buskii, which excrete waste material that stimulates abnormal human cell growth. The two ingredients in Clark's theory of disease are internal parasites and an impaired immune system. She blames exposure to pollutants such as propyl alcohol, benzene, xylene, toluene, methyl ethyl ketone and other solvents for the body's inability to identify and elimi- |
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