Essiac herbal tea review

Alternative medicine for treating cancer

by Markus Wahlgren

Cancer is the name given to any illness resulting from one of our body’s own cells growing out of control. There are many processes that control a cell’s growth and division, each of which can go wrong. Several of these control mechanisms need to be damaged before a cell becomes cancerous. There are more than 200 different types of cancers, which are categorized in to carcinoma, sarcoma, lymphoma and leukemia based on the cells from which they arise.

The principles involved in treating cancer are – either directly destroying the cancer tissues or indirectly destroying them by depriving them of blood supply and/or their nutrition. But the irony is that whatever conventional treatment is used to destroy cancer cells do affect to some extent the normal cells also. They may damage the skin, liver, intestine the bone marrow and other rapidly multiplying cells. Sometimes the effect of the treatment is more devastating than the disease itself.

Role of Alternative Medicine in treating cancer A larger study of Alternative medicine use in patients with different types of cancer was published in the July 2000 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology. It was found that nearly 70% of the patients used at least one form alternative medicine along with the conventional treatment. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) are sponsoring a number of clinical trials at medical centers to evaluate alternative medical therapies for cancer.

Alternative medicine includes therapies like herbal remedies, vitamins, special diets, and acupuncture among others. Acupuncture: effective in the management of chemotherapy associated nausea and vomiting and in controlling pain associated with surgery. Now used in a trial to reduce the symptoms of colorectal cancer

-Homeopathy -Ayurveda -Shark cartilage: Being tried in non-small cell lung cancer. it prevents new blood vessels growth -Hyperbaric oxygen: In patients who had larynx removed for larynx cancer -Massage therapy: for cancer related fatigue -Pancreatic enzyme therapy along with specialized diet for the treatment of pancreatic cancer -Mistletoe extract: for the treatment of solid tumors -Wheatgrass therapy -Macrobiotics: The macrobiotic diet is strictly vegetarian and requires you to consume about half of your daily calories from whole grains, about a quarter of your calories from vegetables, and the rest of your calories from beans, seaweed and soups -Bioelectric therapies -Moerman’s Anti-Cancer diet -Hoxsey herbal therapy -Essiac herbal therapy: Essiac is a herbal tea mixture that relieves pain and reduces the size of tumors. It contains four herbs- burdock, rhubarb, sheep sorrel and slippery elm -Pau D’Arco herbal therapy -Chaparral herbal therapy -Laetrile (amygdalin): a chemical found in lima beans, raw nuts and the pits of many fruits. Amygdalin produces cyanide, which proponents claim kills cancer -Alkaline diet: such as fruits and vegetables and restricting acidic foods -Antioxidant found in fruits and vegetables -Vitamins A, C and E: These are very good anti oxidants -Detox therapies including Gonzales nutritional metabolic therapy, colon therapy, and Gerson therapy The most successful practitioners integrate various components of the alternative cancer treatments for a better outcome.

About the author: Markus writes and publishes articles about Alternative treatments for diseases including cancer, and other unbiased topics on Independent-views.com.

Essiac Tea Reviews

by Len Gibb

Essiac Tea is a herbal based preparation that has been promoted as a cure against cancer. Most of essiac tea reviews received in respect of the product have received a reasonable amount of definiteness, and hence a generic line of products having the name of essiac tea are being marketed in various places under various names and prices.

Essiac tea as formulated and used by Rene Essiac as a cure for Cancer for over 60 years and during her life time, she has been using essiac tea preparations to remove the side effects of the Cancer treatment and later on, it was used for the treatment of cancer itself.

Various Essiac tea reviews received later when the essiac tea was manufactured as a commercial product, and marketed as an alternative medicine for Cancer has not found favor with the clinical tests that were conducted on pure scientific considerations. But, the original recipe used by Rene Cassie was used by her in her clinic for more than 60 years and during all these time she has been using the same formula to treat the cancer patients.

Essiac Tea as used by Rene was subjected to favorable essiac tea reviews and some of her patients reported that her esssiac tea preparation had cured them miraculously of cancer. But, at the same time, some other essiac tea reviews stated that though their cancer was not fully cured by the essiac tea, the pain and agony due to the cancer was relieved and their life was made bearable only due to the use of Essiac tea.

The essiac tea that was used by Rene Cassie was taken over by a Company called Resperin, which received all the rights to the product after Rene Cassie died in 1978. But, the product manufactured and marketed by Resperin was rejected by the Public on the ground of poor essiac tea reviews stating that the essaic tea is very poor in quality and the same was not of the same formula as used by Rene Cassie.

Then other Companies began manufacturing the essiac Tea and marketed them in different names and some of them were nice, and the essiac tea reviews received by them were so good that the essiac tea is well received in the Market, and today is being used as an alternative medicinal product having the powers to cure cancerous cells in the human body, besides giving a general boosting to the body’s immune system.

Among various products available in the essiac tea category, the essiac Tea review for the product that is manufactured by Virginia Richardson Country Herbal is one of the best among the various essiac tea products. This is made only to the customer’s order and no preservatives or alcohol is used. This particular product comes with a pleasant flavor and no brewing is required for using it. Besides these, this particular product has been certified by the Canadian government, and it is the product that is being manufactured out of organic herbs.

About the author: Len Gibb is a webmaster who makes websites on a wide array of niche health topics. His latest website – Essiac Tea Guides focuses on essiac tea, and in partcular, a natural product known as – Herbal Essiac Tea

by Clive Jenkins

How Do We Describe Essiac?

The basis of Essiac is a collection of herbs which are integrated together to make the drink that we all commonly know as tea. Traditionally, this would consist of the root from Indian rhubarb, burdock root, elm inner bark (slippery) and also sheep sorrel. Further to this, later recipes also included the addition of red clover, blessed thistle and even watercress; the end product being Flor Essence.

So What Can Do Get From Essiac Tea?

Essiac tea is said to be beneficial in a variety of ways and is even claimed to help with the treatment of cancer. I understand there is actually research being carried to try and substantiate these claims. A nurse from Canada named Rene Caisse discovered Essiac tea and named the tea after her own surname. If you read it backwards you will find that it spells ‘Essiac’.

How Do I Make The Tea?

The process for making and preparing the tea is not so difficult and only requires that you follow some simple instructions. It doesn’t take long to put together and the ingredients used are minimal. Commonly, Essiac tea is used from time to time for not just the claims about it being able to treat cancer but for general wellbeing and also to help heal additional ailments.

The method of preparing the tea is firstly finding a couple of steel pots which will need to be stainless steel and should measure four gallons and three gallons with a lid. You will need a spatula, a funnel, a fine-mesh double strainer which should all be stainless steel; a minimum of twelve, sixteen ounce glass bottles which can be sealed with air tight caps and additionally you will need to have two gallons of distilled water that is free from sodium.

Ingredients

Take four ounces of powdered slippery elm bark, one ounce of powdered turkey rhubarb, six and a half cups of finely cut burdock root and also sixteen ounces of powdered wild sheep sorrel. Now you need to fully mix up these ingredients and then take the distilled water that is sodium free, put it in the four gallon pot with the lid added and bring to the boil.

Now, take 1 cup of the Essiac mix and stir this in to your pot, remember to put the lid back onto your pot after you’ve done this and carry on boiling the pot for approximately another ten minutes. You then turn off your hob and take a scraping instrument to scrape the sides of the pot. Give the formula a good stir, replace the lid back on to the pot and leave it that way for half a day or so. Then switch your hob back on and fully heat for twenty minutes.

The preparation is almost finished and all that needs doing is to turn your hob off and strain the mixture into the other three gallon pot. You will need to give the five gallon pot a good clean now as you will be yet again running the mixture through the strainer and back into the larger pot. After this you can now use your funnel to empty the hot mix into your bottles. Do this right away and remember to secure the caps tightly. Finally Leave the bottles to drop in temperature, ensure the caps are still tight and then refrigerate your newly created Essiac Tea.

Caution

You should always consult your Doctor or other qualified health professional before embarking on any homemade tea venture. Pregnant women in particular should be cautious of such activities.

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