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These institutions have influence over government and regulatory that information, they withheld it from the general public - yet they agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA rec- gave it to the Canadian Ministry of Health & Welfare. The ommends only allopathic treatments for cancer and other life threat- | Canadian government then immediately banned that herb for sale ening diseases. It does not approve nor make legal alternative treat- and distribution. ments of any kind. ER: Banned a common weed like sheep's sorrel? ER: You're saying that Essiac is in a position similar to, for GG: Yes, sheep's sorrel is just a common weed that grows in example, Laetrile. abundance throughout North America and into Canada. Just a com- GG: Yes, the only reason laetrile was stopped - and it couldn't be mon weed. stopped any other way - was through the insurance companies. The ER: Well, it seems that banning sheep's sorrel would not be very insurance companies sent down a directive to all allopathic physi- _ effective if you could identify it for yourself. cians stating that they could not cover them in any malpractice suit GG: Yes, it's just a question of identifying the plant and then har- in the event they were treating people with any substance not vesting it correctly and drying it properly and then putting it togeth- approved by the Food and Drug Administration. er with the other herbs. ER: In your book you mention that the Brusch Clinic in René would harvest the Sheep's Sorrel - Rumex acetosella - when Massachusetts worked with René Caisse and with Essiac, during the _it was four to six inches high. She cut it back and it would grow up early 1960's. Is this clinic still doing research with Essiac? again, and she'd cut it back again. She would do that about three GG: Dr. Charles A. Brusch is not practicing at this time. He was _ times and then she would let it go to seed. It will grow to 14 or 18 a personal physician to the late President John F. Kennedy. Dr. inches. Brusch worked with René Caisse She would take the herb cut- from 1959 to 1962. He worked tings home and lay them out at with thousands of cancer patients. room temperature to dry them. He also worked with the She'd let the cuttings sit there for Presidential Cancer Commission, three or four days before she'd —_ —— = Dr. —_— begin turning the herbs. Then ammer, the American Cancer eee . . Society, and the National Cancer EsSiac is a non-toxic herbal cure for she iy een perane an. ioeeties ; cancer that's been with us since 1922. — which took about ten days to two Dr. Brusch presented his find- weeks. It takes about a bushel of ings after ten years of research. harvested sheep's sorrel to produce He had come to the conclusion —_—[t's a formula made from four very one pound of the dried powdered that, in his own words, “Essiac is a herb which is used in the formula. cure for cancer, period. All stud- common herbs. ER: Do you have the formula? ies done at laboratories in the It's not in your book. You do United States and Canada support mention a video in the book. this conclusion. GG: Yes, I have it. Anyone Whereupon the federal govern- can get it from me, free of charge. ment issued a gag order and said “You've got one of two choices, either you keep quiet about this or we'll haul you off to military anyone who asks for it. prison and you'll never be heard of again.” So we never heard ER: Sun Bear told me you had problems getting the book pub- another wordopt of him. — ; lished and distributed. What kind of problems? Brusch's Essiac patients included Ted —— I son who had a GG: There wasn't a publishing company that would publish it. sarcoma on his leg, and who had his leg amputated. He was being No one wanted to run the risk of a wrongful death suit. So I pub- treated at that time by the Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, ifiteid atentecadloet ; ; tot r the self. And as soon as I did, the IRS came in and Massachusetts. Dr. Farber didn't know how to save him, because no slapped about a half million dollars in liens against me and said, one had ever lived with this type of sarcoma. So what he did was go 5 . . 7 to Dr. Brusch and say, how are we going to save Ted Kennedy's son as know this has got nothing to do with taxes. It's all about can- And Dr. Brusch made the suggestion to put him on Essiac, and after : . they did, he didn’t have a anne ais De body. But all this infor , They actually started hauling the pallets of books out of my med- mation has been hidden from the general public. ical practice offices and confiscating them. | also had thousands of books that were confiscated by the Canadian government at cus- We don't sell the video anymore. We simply mail the formula to ER: Why? ; toms. I have never received any of those books back. The only a . I _ — ea ta = - ones I have now are hidden in storage facilities. : Do you know whether the remedy is being used or test ER: That's incredible - why do you think thy are so interested in anywhere today in the U.S. or Canada? keeping this book out of circulation? GG: Right now, Essiac is being used in every state in the United GG: Money and power, as I've said. Cancer is the largest rev- States, it's throughout Canada, into Mexico, it's in Australia, Europe, enue producing business in the world, next to the petrochemical Asia, and recently, also in Africa. So the message of Essiac is ysiness, In Canada the book is being held up by the Ministry of beginning to make its way worldwide. But it's still known only ona —_fealth & Welfare because they say it is “advertising”. very limited basis. 2 ER: Advertising what, the video you don't sell anymore? Of course now you also have the problem of herbal distributing a Wa, a-cuse tanner. companies throughout the world that are substituting yellow dock 4 r . “ and curly dock for sheep's sorrel, which is one of the critical ingredi- ER: Can you ns what you mean by the publishers fearing a wrongful death suit? ents in Essiac. ; ; a The sheep's sorrel is the herbal ingredient in Essiac that was GG: What you're dealing with is giving people a formula that found to be responsible for the destruction of cancer cells in the r= can — and use in the Lente of their dex: wr without body, or their amalgamation where metastasised cancer cells actual- approval of the AMA or the FDA or anybody else. If any attor- ly return to the original tumour site. ney or any family member should decide, for whatever reason, that the reason someone expired was from the use of Essiac, then you are That research was done by Dr. Chester Stock at Sloan-Kettering . A =". : " ; t " putting yourself up for a wrongful death suit. The contention is that in New York for over a three-year period. But when they gathered if it isn't approved by the FDA, there's no legality in using it when that information, they withheld it from the general public - yet they gave it to the Canadian Ministry of Health & Welfare. The Canadian government then immediately banned that herb for sale and distribution. ER: Banned a common weed like sheep's sorrel? GG: Yes, sheep's sorrel is just a common weed that grows in abundance throughout North America and into Canada. Just a com- mon weed. ER: Well, it seems that banning sheep's sorrel would not be very effective if you could identify it for yourself. GG: Yes, it's just a question of identifying the plant and then har- vesting it correctly and drying it properly and then putting it togeth- er with the other herbs. René would harvest the Sheep's Sorrel - Rumex acetosella - when it was four to six inches high. She cut it back and it would grow up again, and she'd cut it back again. She would do that about three times and then she would let it go to seed. It will grow to 14 or 18 inches. am bs oe ve waasspay cmaeeas crew awasssuane ow anyone who asks for it. * ER: Sun Bear told me you had problems getting the book pub- lished and distributed. What kind of problems? GG: There wasn't a publishing company that would publish it. No one wanted to run the risk of a wrongful death suit. So I pub- lished the book myself. And as soon as I did, the IRS came in and slapped about a half million dollars in tax liens against me and said, “You know this has got nothing to do with taxes. It's all about can- They actually started hauling the pallets of books out of my med- ical practice offices and confiscating them. I also had thousands of books that were confiscated by the Canadian government at cus- toms. I have never received any of those books back. The only ones I have now are hidden in storage facilities. ER: That's incredible - why do you think thy are so interested in keeping this book out of circulation? GG: Money and power, as I've said. Cancer is the largest rev- enue producing business in the world, next to the petrochemical business. In Canada the book is being held up by the Ministry of Health & Welfare because they say it is "advertising". ER: Advertising what, the video you don't sell anymore? GG: No, a cure for cancer. ER: Can you oman what you mean by the publishers fearing a wrongful death suit? GG: What you're dealing with is giving people a formula that they can make and use in the privacy of their own homes without the approval of the AMA or the FDA or anybody else. If any attor- ney or any family member should decide, for whatever reason, that the reason someone expired was from the use of Essiac, then you are putting yourself up for a wrongful death suit. The contention is that if it isn't approved by the FDA, there's no legality in using it when 22¢NEXUS DECEMBER-JANUARY '93