Guest guest Posted December 20, 2004 Report Share Posted December 20, 2004 no offense Dr. Bhate, but eessiac might not be the best example its very hard to sort out truth from fiction in this whole controversy besides which, i haven't met a practitioner yet that thinks Essiac is an effective cancer treatment, as opposed to preventative (with this i would like to say that any number of "treatments" can "work" in cancer - i had a patient that cured a brain tumor with bee pollen - anything is possible, sometimes...) Essiac is comprised of simple, inexpensive herbs, herbs that some herbalists call "barn yard" herbs - very weedy and easy to obtain in Canada like the companies that produce the formula or version(s) of it now, Caisse charged a premium for it, which seems at odd when we consider the supposedly philanthropic reasons for her bringing it forward - cancer patients make easy targets but perhaps the biggest red flag for me is that she supposedly received the formula from an old Indian medicine man when many of the herbs in the formula aren't even native to North America! unfortunately the story of some secret formula being passed down by a wizened befeathered rattle-shaking Indian shaman to some almost randomly chosen white person is a tired, worn-out and hackneyed marketing technique in North America that has been used for much, much too long, essiac included; i know a few native american herbalists who are offended by this story Caldecott todd www.toddcaldecott.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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