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you're dealing with a life threatening disease. I met his mother's sister in Los Angeles while I was putting the When René Caisse set up her clinical trials in Canada to test book together and she asked if there was any credibility here. We Essiac, she was given government permission to treat terminally ill sat down and talked. She then borrowed the money for a flight to cancer patients who had been given up for hopeless by the medical © Anchorage, and delivered a bottle of Essiac. By the time she got profession. That was one criteria. Secondly, this was all to be certi- _there, Toby was given three days to live. He was in a state of com- fied by a pathology report. And third, she could not charge anything _—plete deterioration. He was given the Essiac and all the haemor- for her services. She agreed to all these criteria and proceeded to ~—thaging stopped within 24 hours. Within three months all his blood treat people with Essiac. Many she treated were still there 35 years tests were normal. I arrived in Alaska later that year and met him. later to bury her when she died at age 90. Toby Wood did die, and we finally found a pathologist who The best that anyone can do is just try to disseminate this infor- | would do an exhaustive autopsy. We knew that he didn't have mation to the public and let people make their own choices. That's leukemia any more. We wanted to find out what was the cause of all you can do. And just say, look, if you feel Essiac has value in death. It took four months to get the report back. The pathologist your life and the lives of your loved ones, you have the right to pe my the brain, testicles, and all life support organs, including make this remedy and use it in the privacy of your own home and _ the bone marrow. Cause of death was damage to the myocardial , without anyone's approval. sac of the heart, a result of the chemotherapy. You know, in 1937 Essiac came within three votes of being This was the first report anywhere in medical history of anyone legalised as a treatment for cancer. People had gathered over 55,000 surviving lymphoblastic leukemia. That information was taken to signatures on a petition to allow René to continue to use Essiac. AP, and UPI but they said it was not newsworthy. The only reason the vote fell short, she found out later, was that the Our information on Essiac has been sent around the world twice College of Physicians and through Publisher's Weekly mag- Surgeons met and said to azine in a huge two-page ad. We Parliament, if you don't respond to received no responses at all from the political pressure and legalise any publishing company world- Essiac, then we'll take a sincere wide, no producers, directors, look and give this woman a fair * ‘ eae throughout the United States, no hearing. So, Parliament didn't ++» IN [Canada] 1937, Essiac came within talk = programs, none of that. ee following the Royal Cancer three votes of being legalised asa or Gans this information dis cial u: seutient tira treatment for cancer. madie, slther, Br inclodes the allowed to continue her practice . y but only within the pag I men- People had gathered over 55,000 — omeuehe who are now tioned before, which allowed the Ft wae substituting the curly dock for Ministry of Health & Welfare to signatures on a petition to allow René to sheep's sorrel. So people are get- as continue to use Essiac. Sigh 7h as I know this because I have a six other formulas that are circu- copy of the hearing transcripts lating which are different from the one I send out. These false ich I Mary McPhe ee ae ees Pe Bee, formulas are being disseminated. which is some of the information that did not get bumed when René There is a disinformation cam- died. paign going on here, somehow. ER: You mentioned that earlier. What exactly was burned? ER: Has this disiafermating campaign started just since your GG: All her research for that 40 year period of time. All the boolk has heen a _ : . names, all her clinical data that she had collected. Her files and GG: Previous to my book, none of this information was available records. to the general public at all. The public had no information outside . = of a few assorted articles. Certainly the Essiac formula was not on Re; now pty Of the BrosctrEsiaio?” Vi msenes thee available to the general public at all. Ali that information was held GG) As far as know all: thet material bastbeen desteeyediclso, I by the Resperin Corporation in Toronto, Canada, which supposedly knew that René had worked with Dr. Brusch from 1959 to 1962, so I ae ‘ . 5 However, they work hand in glove with the Canadian Ministry of went to Dr. Brusch's home in Cambridge, Massachusetts whereupon 2 ; ; he delivered to me the only material he had left in his files on Health & Welfare, who works directly with the American Food and Essiac. One of those files was his own personal file where he had Drug =e" and = — Cancer Institute in —o treated and cured his own cancer with Essiac. I have his personal pee: Tie Rene inciis wes never given @ anpene by Tecords. Resperin. . ; : All the information in my book is verified by a sheet of paper ER: Did the Resperin Corporation do any research on Essiac? with a signature and a date on it, and those sheets and signatures are GG: They've done research since 1978 when the formula was all originals. They are not copies. telinquished to them by René for the purchase price of one dollar. As soon as they got the formula, they told René they had no further use for her. She had been under the distinct impression from the Ministry of Health & Welfare and the Resperin Corporation that she was to lead the research activities that they so desperately wanted to put together. But René had already done clinical trials. She had names and records. She thought the Resperin Corporation was politically pow- , erful and had money enough to get Essiac into the public sector Her last stop was Dr. Alvazados in Athens, Greece where her without competion = vabees. Then she found out the son's white cell count was 186,000. He had no red blood cells and Corporation was working closely with the government and adminis- no platelets. He was haemorrhaging to death. So they transfused tration and the Ministry of Health & Welfare. Toby in Greece, and put him on a plane to Alaska where he was given less than five days to live. ER: Have you had any personal experiences with Essiac? GG: Yes, I can give you an example. He was a twelve year old boy named Toby Wood. He had acute lymphoblastic leukemia, which is one of the most virulent of all leukemias. He had been on chemotherapy for four years and radiation for three. His mother's only hope in life was to find a cure for him. She went everywhere. She tried every alternative treatment. So now people who were terminally ill and given up as hopeless had to go through a federal bureaucratic maze to get the remedy. By paign going on here, somehow. ER: Has this disinformation campaign started just since your book has been out? GG: Previous to my book, none of this information was available to the general public at all. The public had no information outside of a few assorted articles. Certainly the Essiac formula was not available to the general public at all. Ali that information was held by the Resperin Corporation in Toronto, Canada, which supposedly is a private institution. However, they work hand in glove with the Canadian Ministry of Health & Welfare, who works directly with the American Food and Drug Administration and the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. The Essiac formula was never given to anyone by Resperin. ER: Did the Resperin Corporation do any research on Essiac? GG: They've done research since 1978 when the formula was telinquished to them by René for the purchase price of one dollar. As soon as they got the formula, they told René they had no further use for her. She had been under the distinct impression from the Ministry of Health & Welfare and the Resperin Corporation that she was to lead the research activities that they so desperately wanted to put together. But René had already done clinical trials. She had names and records. She thought the Resperin Corporation was politically pow- erful and had money enough to get Essiac into the public sector without compromising her values. Then she found out the Corporation was working closely with the government and adminis- tration and the Ministry of Health & Welfare. So now people who were terminally ill and given up as hopeless had to go through a federal bureaucratic maze to get the remedy. By NEXUS*23 DECEMBER-JANUARY '93