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ESSIAC: NATURE'S CURE FOR CANCER NATURE'S CURE ESSIAC: FOR CANCER Elisabeth Robinson: To begin with, Dr. Glum, can you tell us a little about how you became interested in the story you tell in Calling of an Angel, and how you learned about René Caisse and her work? Dr. Gary Glum: A personal friend of mine knew this woman, whose name I have promised not to reveal, who was living in Detroit, Michigan. Twenty years ago she had been diagnosed with cervical cancer in a Detroit hospital where she was eventually given up as incurable and terminal. She was given about ten days to live. She convinced her husband to make a tip to Bracebridge, Canada where she went to see René Caisse. She was treated with the herbal remedy developed by René - Essiac - and in a short time she didn't have a cancer cell in her body. So after that time this woman began dedicating her life to disseminating information about Essiac in the United States. When I met her, she was the only person in posses- sion of the original herbal formula who would relinquish it I got the formula for Essiac from her. That's how it began. When I started, all I had was a piece of paper. I thought, what am I going to do with this? I decided the best way to go would be to find the information behind Essiac and put it in book form and bring it to the world. I learned about René Caisse from Mary McPherson who was a very close persona! friend of René's ... not only a friend but also a patient. Mary's mother and her husband were also patients. They were all treated for cancer and cured by René. Mary worked with René beginning in the 1930s and she had in her possession all these documents that had to do with Essiac over the 40 years René administered it. All the documents René had were destroyed by the Canadian Ministry of Health & Welfare at the time of her death in 1978. They burned all that information in fifty-five gallon drums behind her home. ER: Why? GG: Because they don't want this information in the hands of the public or the press or anybody else. They indeed found out what Essiac was in 1937. The Royal Cancer Commission hearings had then come to the same conclusion that René had - that Essiac was a cure for cancer. ER: What is Essiac exactly? GG: Essiac is a non-toxic herbal cure for cancer that's been with us since 1922. It's a formula made from four very common herbs. ER: I would guess that virtually every person in the U.S. today has been touched by cancer, either personally or through a loved one. If this information is true, and the effectiveness of this remedy is actually medically documented, many lives could be saved. Why do you think the information on Essiac is not more widely known? GG: The information is withheld because cancer is the second largest revenue producing business in the world, next to the petro- chemical business. Money and power suppress this truth. No one has ever sought to cure cancer - only to control it. I mean, the research institutes, federal governments, pharmaceutical companies, anybody that has a vested interest in the health care of cancer, including the American Cancer Society, the Canadian Cancer Society, any of these so-called benefactors to those who have contracted this disease - all of these institutions are involved in the money and power around cancer. An interview with Dr. Gary L. Glum. By Elisabeth Robinson Introduction René Caisse was a nurse living in Canada, who, for a period of almost sixty years treated hundreds of people with an herbal remedy she called Essiac. She discov- ered this remedy through a patient in the hospital where she worked who had been cured of cancer. The patient had used a herbal remedy given her by an Ojibway herbalist. René left the hospital in 1922 at age 33, and went to Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada where she began admin- istering Essiac to all who came to her, The majority of those whom she treated came on referral with letters from their physicians certifying they had incurable or terminal forms of cancer and that they had been given up on by the medical profession as untreatable. René began gathering the plants and preparing the herbal remedy herself in her own kitchen, in a building lent her for her patients. She administered Essiac both orally and by injection. In cases where there was severe damage to life support organs, her patients died - but they lived far longer than the medical profession had predicted, and, significantly, they lived free of pain. Still others, listed as hopeless and terminal, but without severe damage to life support organs, were cured and lived 35-45 years (many are still living). So startling was the effectiveness of this simple herbal remedy, it could not be ignored, and the Canadian Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Parliament became involved. Friends, former patients, and grateful families petitioned Canadian officialdom for René Caisse's right to administer the remedy to anyone who asked for it without the threat of interference from authorities, Fifty-five thousand signatures were collect- ed on the petition. In 1938, Essiac came within three votes of being legalised by the Ontario government as a remedy for terminal cancer patients. NEXUS¢21 DECEMBER-JANUARY '93