Essiac Tea


This is a good recipe for Essiac Tea. One that a person could blend for themselves.

A good way to make herbel teas is to use a coffee maker and let steep on its heater for 1/2hr of more... Essiac is likely helpful for most people with cancer. This blend of herbs has the properties of detoxifier, antibacterial, and antiparasitic, and is unusual in that the herbs used are mild enough tasting that they can be used in tea form, unlike most herbs with these properties. It is also a good adjunct to any cancer treatment plan, including alternative ones like Rife, but I would never depend on it alone to fight cancer. According to one herb book I have, it is also contraindicated in colon and stomach cancer because of the high amount of tannins the blend contains, but I don't think this is much of a deletrious factor. The essiac herbs can be purchased for cheap in many herb shops which sell in bulk. One can put together enough to make gallons for less than $10. A good deal for the stuff is also Caisse's Herbal Tea, a brown bag full of the fresh-smelling dried herbs for $10, enough to make one gallon. Grind the herbs to a powder to make the tea more powerful. For ease of use, I would just make a cup at a time, steeping a heaping teaspoon, and drink the powder along with the tea instead of straining out the herbs.

What I think is a better cancer adjunct is the treatment plan described in "Health Through God's Pharmacy," a book on the (European) alternative health methods of Maria Treben. Her alterative tea which is featured as treatment in many of her disease regimens is composed of calendula flowers, nettles, and yarrow, and to increase antiparasitic action for diseases like cancer, wood sorrel juice is added. Along with this, shavegrass (horsetail) tea is taken for cancer and other diseases. The dry herbs can be found in some bulk health food stores (cheap), but I have never seen wood sorrel juice. I would use sheep sorrel (an essiac herb) instead, and just add it in with the other herbs. Her recommendation for the tea is to make a batch each day of the calendula, nettles, and yarrow, put in a thermos, and drink throughout the day, adding sorrel juice to it. Then drink a cup of shavegrass tea twice per day, one in the morning and one at night. She also specifies other herbs to add to the regimen based on the type of cancer. Calendula is a good antiparasitic, antiviral, antibacterial, and antifungal. It is usually used in extract form externally, but is a good supplement taken in tea form, especially for viral illnesses. Nettles are antiparasitic, mineral-and-vitamin rich, and diuretic. Yarrow is alterative, diuretic, treats hormone imbalances, and "has anticancer properties" according to some herb books, which usually means it is antiparasitic. Horsetail is silica rich and diuretic. Mineral rich diuretics help remove deposits like stones and crystals throughout the body. Varying ratios of calendula to yarrow and nettles are used for different diseases, but for tumors, the highest ratio is used - 3 parts calendula to 1 part yarrow to 1 part nettles - but for other diseases, lower ratios (1:1:1 or 2:1:1) are used. The more calendula, the worse-tasting the tea since it is somewhat bitter, but even at this strength, it is not too bad.

To make an easy-to-administer batch of her tea herbs, one could grind the following to a fine powder and use 2t three times per day: Parts Herb 3 Calendula flowers 1 Yarrow 1 Nettles 1 Sheep sorrel 1.5 Shavegrass For further ease of administration, one could merely eat 2t powder 3x day and drink a lot of water. Fresh shavegrass should be boiled before consumption, or steamed before drying, to disinfect it. A strong decoction of this blend would make a fine pesticide and decent antifungal spray for plants. Her other "cure-all" recommendation is Swedish Bitters. This tastes similar to Angostora bitters (whose ingredients are not listed) but I have never seen it in a package store. It is sold in health food stores, and composed of (of course) bitter herbs which stimulate digestion and also provide antiparasitic, antibacterial/fungal, and laxative action. She often recommends using Swedish bitters in poultices and in other external methods, but for many diseases, she says to take 3 or more tablespoons per day internally. There are many other interesting uses of the stuff, according to her. For example, she says drinking an ounce of this liquor will sober a drunk "on the spot." I have not tried it for that purpose, but it is quite effective to stimulate digestion after a large meal as well as quell indigestion. I think it is the "Flor" people who produce a bitters called "Maria's Recipe", or some such name, that is sold next to Swedish Bitters. This implies that it is the formula Treben uses, but uses cheaper ingredients which are not similar (although still bitter) even though it costs more. Treben states the ingredients and amounts in the book, and tells how to make the stuff oneself, and it is identical to the ingredients in the Swedish Bitters, but some of the ingredients like saffron are hard to find and/or expensive. I think it is also Flor who makes one of the "official" essiacs but which has added ingredients beyond the 4 Caisse used and is outrageously expensive. I think they use red clover and watercress, et al, in their essiac blend even though this is probably less effective since it means there are less of the other herbs which have a stronger action, like burdock and slippery elm. No, Treben does not realize, or at least does not mention, that parasites play a major role in cancer, even though her recommendation to fight worms and other parasites in the body is a subset of her cancer treatment plan. Yet, her mainly-antiparasitic tea formula is recommended for about every disease that it is necessary, so she at least has stumbled onto what I think are very effective treatment protocols.