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Comments (46)The Story of Essiac Tea below is for the benefit of anyone interested. On a fateful day in 1922 Canadian nurse Rene Caisse happened to notice some scar tissue on the breast of an elderly woman. The woman said that doctors had diagnosed her with breast cancer years before. However, the woman didn't want to risk surgery nor did she have the money for it. As luck would have it, she had met an old Indian medicine man who told her that he could cure her cancer with an herbal tea. The woman took the medicine man's advice, and consequently she was still alive nearly thirty years later to pass on this herbal remedy to Nurse Caisse. About a year later, Rene Caisse was walking beside a retired doctor who pointed to a common weed and stated: "Nurse Caisse, if people would use this weed there would be little cancer in the world." Rene later stated: "He told me the name of the plant. It was one of the herbs my patient named as an ingredient of the Indian medicine man's tea!" The "weed" was sheep sorrel. In 1924 she decided to test the tea on her aunt who had cancer of the stomach and was given about six months to live. Her aunt lived for another 21 years, cancer free. Rene Caisse (pronounced "Reen Case") later gave the tea to her 72-year old mother who was diagnosed with inoperable cancer of the liver, with only days to live. Her mother recovered and lived without cancer for another 18 years. In the ensuing years Nurse Caisse refined and perfected the original "medicine man's" formula. She tested various herbal combinations on laboratory mice and on human cancer patients. She eventually reduced the tea to four herbs: burdock root, sheep sorrel, slippery elm and turkey rhubarb. She called the formula Essiac, which is her surname spelled backwards. Rene Caisse devoted over fifty years of her life to treating thousands of cancer patients with Essiac. So effective were her free treatments that in 1938 her supporters gathered 55,000 signatures for a petition to present to the Ontario legislature to "authorise Rene Caisse to practice medicine in the Province of Ontario in the treatment of cancer and conditions therein". Unfortunately, due to the machinations of the Canadian Medical Association, the bill failed to pass by just three votes. WHAT DID DOCTORS SAY ABOUT RENE CAISSE'S TEA? Rene Caisse operated her cancer clinic under the supervision and observation of a number of doctors. Based on what those doctors saw with their own eyes, eight of them signed a petition to the Department of National Health and Welfare at Ottawa, asking that Nurse Caisse be given facilities to do independent research on her discovery. Their petition, dated at Toronto on October 27, 1926, read as follows: To Whom It May Concern: "We the undersigned believe that the 'Treatment for Cancer' given by Nurse R.M. Caisse can do no harm and that it relieves pain, will reduce the enlargement and will prolong life in hopeless cases. To the best of our knowledge, she has not been given a case to treat until everything in medical and surgical science has been tried without effect and even then she was able to show remarkable beneficial results on those cases at that late stage. "We would be interested to see her given an opportunity to prove her work in a large way. To the best of our knowledge she has treated all cases free of any charge and has been carrying on this work over the period of the past two years." Initially, Rene was not aware of the control that the medical/pharmaceutical establishment had over governments. After the petition was delivered to the National Health and Welfare Department, she was continually threatened with arrest until she finally withdrew from public view. Unlike Nurse Caisse, the medical establishment was more interested in making money than in helping people. Essiac was cheap. It could cut into the lucrative profits from radiation, chemotherapy and surgery--treatments that often did more harm than good. Essiac is non-toxic. Rene said, "Chemotherapy should be a criminal offense." The story of Rene Caisse's struggle to make Essiac an official cancer treatment was told by Dr. Gary Glum in his book CALLING OF AN ANGEL: ESSIAC, NATURE'S CURE FOR CANCER. In a telephone conversation Dr. Glum stated that people who take Essiac on a regular, preventive basis do not get cancer. Dr. Glum interviewed JFK's personal physician, Dr. Charles Brusch, who stated: "I know Essiac has curing potential. It can lessen the condition of the individual, control it, and it can cure it." Dr. Ralph Moss was appointed to the Cancer Advisory Panel that evaluates alternative cancer therapies for the government. On his web site and in his book CANCER THERAPY, Dr. Moss points out that each of the herbs in Essiac has been scientifically shown to contain anticancer substances. In his "Cancer Chronicles" [www.ralphmoss.com/essiac], Dr. Moss notes Essiac's rising popularity by comparing Essiac's low cost to a $150,000 bone marrow transplant. ESSIAC--MORE THAN JUST A CANCER TREATMENT Dr.Frederick Banting, the co-discoverer of insulin became interested in Essiac and even offered Nurse Caisse research facilities to test it. According to Rene, Dr. Banting stated that "Essiac must actuate the pancreatic gland into normal functioning". Even today diabetics are using Essiac to improve their condition and many have gone off insulin entirely....See MoreDieting and watching what you eat
Comments (27)A woman up the river gave me wise advice ten years ago when my metabolism shut down. She is in excellent condition. She told me she eats whatever she wants but has to work it off. Her approach to food is like budgeting and saving money: 'do I want to waste calories on this junk or do I want to save up and have a really good dinner later on?' she asks herself. This way she has always has a choice. She's never backed into a corner. She also turned me onto this little tip and by golly it works! Get an exercise bike or a treadmill. Rent one or buy at a second hand store if you can't afford new. Park it in front of tv. In the evenings, while you are watching tv, ride the bike or walk the treadmill during the commercials. I do this three nights a week. My average ride on the airdyne is FIVE MILES for a one hour show. At first take it easy but as you get stronger, up the speed/resistance. I've never kept track of the time I ride but it's a well known fact that without commercials a one hour show would only be something like 1/2 hour long....LOL I've lost a little weight since Christmas. How much, I don't know but my clothes fit better. I keep a big tupperware bowl of celery, carrots, radishes, green onions, etc in the frig so I have a choice between eating that cookie(s)or veggies to hold me until time for a real meal. I love how the bike riding tones me up and makes me feel strong. My sister lost sixty pounds (over a two year period) by eating anything she wanted. She cut her portions by a third and doesn't allow herself seconds. She will eat desserts but cuts that portion by half. You can do this. Just don't look at it as a chore or make it into something you dread. Give yourself some choices. Most of the time you'll make the right choice. Lori...See MoreIt's not an eating disorder!! What is it???
Comments (17)Many thanks to everyone that gave feedback! Sorry that it has taken so long for me to follow up. Sorry it's going to be a bit long. I tell you, it's been a very long year! I did take my son to the endo doctor and she was great, ran many many tests and was also very concerned with the last doctor not following up to find out what was really going on. Well all of her blood work (10 different types) came back OK She said #'s were a "little" on either the high or low ends of "normal" range, but not pointing to one thing for sure. Told us to follow up with 3 new specialists. Best of all he started gaining weight yea!! Except for the fact that all or most all of the other symptoms were still there. Doctors that the Endo sent us to couldn't even see my son for at least 6-8 weeks. So I waited and prayed...I was very thankful he had put on about 10-12 lbs, but why???? I know I should just be happy but really what had changed??? I was ready to call up ol Dr. House :) Really, I just wanted to be sure he was ok. Then 3rd week in August he started complaining of a stomach ache. It was on a Tues night, he just said "Mom my stomach hurts" I asked him the fun questions Moms get to with a statement like that, do you need to use the bathroom (poop)Do you have diarrhea, does it burn when you pee, does your back hurt, is everything ok at school, anything bothering you??? I got the same answer every time, "My stomach just hurts, I don't feel sick like I am going to throw up, it just hurts, but not "that" bad I'll be OK." Now you have to understand that my son doesn't really complain about not feeling good, never really has been one to miss school from "belly aches" So with that said I sat and watched, of course wondering and worried. Next day and day after I asked him when he got home from school how he was doing, it was OK hurts a little but "Mom really I'm fine, can I go play" Now keep in mind a lot of these conversations were in the kitchen while he was make a "snack" before bed. So the child was eating and I was asking him if he was still as hungry as usual . I also took his temp. every night, no fever. I was thinking appenidix. Well next morning, Friday he told me he didn't want to go to school, I check temp, asked all questions felt stomach. He said that he just didn't feel like walking from class to class. I called the doctor and tried to get him in, was told every time that someone would call me back never did. I then on my gut just took him to the ER, my insurance requires me to get approval from dr first, so that's what I was trying to do. After six and a half hours in the ER waiting room and a few arguments with my son that he was "fine" let's just leave he was hungry, we were taken back. A couple different doctors looked at him, and then after looking up his long history thought just to be safe they would do a CT. I had two different doctors tell me outright not to worry that it couldn't be his appenidix, he would have a fever, throwing up or at least sick to his stomach doubled over in pain and definitely wouldn't want to eat. That is really all that seemed to bother him after the first hour, he was hungry last thing he ate was at 2:30 corn dogs and onion rings, that's all we heard all night. Well needless to say, after they finally got the CT back (a hour later).The doctor came in to tell me that it looked really "ugly" appenidix looked very inflamed and had blockage, as well an abscess behind it. A surgeon would be over in 20 min. to speak with me. Poor guy had been planing where he wanted to stop on the way home to eat:). They were prepping him for surgery and I was signing papers right then. Maybe a good thing it was so quick I knew I couldn't get upset and nervous for his sake. Didn't have time anyway The last thing he said on the way to the OR was " let's get this over with so I can eat. During the waiting for the CT the doctors there were very surprised that any doctor would or could think this child had an eating disorder. He was really hungry:) Well I'm very happy to say that he now is doing fine, as for as appendix. Funny when he finally woke up a day later he said Mom are you there, oh I hurt,...I'm hungry:) During surgery the nurse told me that it had been ruptured and had been for some time, one of the worst the doctor had ever seen. Which of course brings on a whole new set of problems. He NEVER before or after surgery had any sign of an abnormal white blood count. Which made it really hard to see if they had the infection under control, it was in his bloodstream at this point. After 6 nights in the hospital they sent him home and of course we were back within 2 days with the incision infected. The surgeon said the surgery team "knew" it would become infected, just not sure when. They brought student doctors in so many times to hear his "case" He never had the normal signs of appendicitis. Hopefully all the infection is out of his body, he just finished up loads of antibiotics, through an IV in the hospital and 3,000 mgs a day at home. He still has a pretty hard knot on his stomach that I'm watching. I did ask many many times if they thought this had to do with his other problems, never really got a straight answer. I intend to see how his weight does, of course he lost about 12-13lbs in the hospital. The scary thing is that as far as blood work I really don't have anything to compare it with as far as what is normal to my son and what is showing that something may be wrong. I can't say it enough, I'm so thankful that I listened to my gut, something WAS wrong! I'm also so very thankful that I didn't give in to him and leave that night. This could have killed him, and hopefully we caught it in time that it hasn't damaged his other organs. The doctors told me a few times to watch him because his pain tolerance must be very high...that he may be a dare devil. That's what every mother wants to hear, anyone want a skateboard :) Sorry that this is long, but I really wanted to share an update, and say we KNOW our children the doctors need to start listening to parents and look outside their "list" of symptoms. My "gut" still has me wondering if everything is now ok. I pray for the best, as well as, tell my son over and over listen to your body you know what is going on tell me!!! He said he didn't tell me all the time, every time because the doctors wouldn't believe him anyway. Again, thanks for all the feedback!!!...See More"Resistant Starch" A healthy way of eating starches
Comments (59)Through much of my lifetime in a state with a lot of diversity and Chinese inbound immigration, male Chinese immigrants to the US were rarely taller than a few inches over 5 feet. They were noticeably shorter than everyone else. I saw the same on numerous trips to Asia in the 70s. I remember riding on a public bus up to Hakone Lake in Japan for which the space between the seat back and the front of the seat in front of me was too small for my legs to squeeze in so I couldn't sit, but the ceiling of the bus was too low for me to stand upright. All because of the people being short. I remember walking around cities in Japan and also in Hong Kong and feeling like a giant even though I'm just a tad over 6 feet, the locals were short. I remember visits to Spain, Italy and Portugal in the 1970s and wondering why everyone was so short. I suspect I'm much more familiar with all of these cited areas during these years. I had friends when growing up whose families were of Southern European origin. Whose parents (some foreign born) were short. Whose ancestors came here because they were starving. Ever run into a tall Sicilian immigrant in the US in the 50s-80s? I never did. Later generations here are much taller for peoples of all origins than their ancestors who left lands where people were malnourished. Same is true in their home countries too, nutrition has improved and, in the case of China and other parts of SE Asia, fewer famines and starving people. Diets with inadequate calories and so lacking in proper nutrition as to stunt the growth of children and people well into adulthood are not healthier. I'm not going to argue with you, you seem to argue just to argue. Those are my REAL experiences, you can be silly and dispute them as you tend to like to do. Come up with a different explanation and tell me I didn't see what I saw....See Moreroarah
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