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January / February *Current Issue*



     Special



     Personal stories of healing cancer with Essiac

     tea:



     My brother was diagnosed one year ago with very,

     very severe leukemia. His doctors immediately

     started him on chemotherapy. He had two full

     treatments of chemo, then a third full treatment

     in a four week period. The chemo made him look

     deathly ill. My sister and I were appalled. he

     looked like death itself. His hair was gone,

     including his eyelashes, and this once vital,

     large man of over six feet lay in his hospital bed

     in a fetal position, shaking from the

     chemotherapy.



     The doctors in the oncology group told him he

     would die in the hospital if he stayed, or he

     could go home and die. My sister is a nurse, and

     she determined to save my brother. She knew of an

     herbal remedy for cancer called Essiac, and she

     asked the doctor to approve her bringing Essiac

     into the hospital to give to our brother. He

     cleared the way with the hospital authorities,

     since he felt there was nothing else he could do.



     My brother began taking Essiac and 10 drops of Pau

     'D Arco herbal formula each day, once in the

     morning and once in the eve. His blood count was

     at 4,800 (10,000 is normal). Within one week of

     the Essiac treatment he was not only alive his

     blood count was at 10,800. In one more week his

     blood count was up to 14,000--4,000 higher than

     normal.



     My brother had begun the Essiac treatment in

     August of 1992. After the Essiac treatments and

     monitoring of this dramatic rise in his blood

     count in two weeks, despite the destruction the

     chemotherapy had wrought earlier, the doctors let

     him go home. My brother was so healthy by January

     that he and his wife went on a four month cruise

     around the world.



     I think the doctors today are too know-it-all.

     They were far better in the olden days when they

     were family practitioners. They knew about a lot

     then. Now they only know a little. The cancer

     doctors are so specialized all they know is

     chemotherapy.



     My brother today (August, 1993) looks wonderful.

     He is very healthy, active and robust, and he

     feels wonderful. He is planning another world

     cruise with his wife. I have to withhold my name,

     because he and his wife do not want a lot of

     people calling about his experience, as neither

     they nor I wish to recall the terrible ordeal we

     had with the chemotherapy. I love my brother very

     much, we are very close, and I just thank God for

     simple things like Essiac, and all the people all

     over who prayed for his recovery.



     --Name withheld by request

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     Having experienced a lifetime of ill health,

     including eight major operations, I turned my

     attention to nutrition and natural healing methods

     a few years back. In early 1992 I made a

     life-style decision to return home to Seattle and

     continue my career of over 25 years as director of

     sales and marketing in a local hotel.



     It was shortly thereafter that I escorted my

     mother to the outpatient clinic of a local

     hospital to have a small lump removed from her

     parotid gland on the left side of her face. What a

     shock when the doctors found advanced lymphoma

     cancer throughout her body.



     Hoping somehow I could help, I accepted the

     challenge, quit my job, and devoted myself to

     caring for mother, never knowing what the outcome

     might be.



     I immediately began researching volumes of books

     looking for some unknown answer. A program of

     nutritional supplementation and natural food diet

     was begun, in addition to chiropractic care,

     positive thought, and humor therapy.



     It was extremely tense as the doctors began

     chemotherapy. In fact, mother was taken to the

     emergency room six times in the first month. Being

     80, it was probably her strong heart that kept her

     alive and with me to tell her story today. Dancing

     and teaching others to stay well through dance had

     kept her going strong all her life.



     Letters with prayers for her improved health

     poured in and a friend sent an article about

     ``Essiac'' tea. Hopeful that this herbal formula

     could somehow help, I went searching for the

     ingredients, brewed the tea, and added it to her

     growing list of nutritional supplements.



     On Christmas Eve, 1992, three months after my

     mother's diagnosis of lymphoma, the doctors

     pronounced that my mother was not just in

     remission but cancer-free! While we will probably

     never know what cured her of this dreaded disease,

     we feel in our hearts that nutrition played a

     major role.



     After my mother could fare for herself, I returned

     to the hotel business and continue to monitor her

     nutritional program to this day. My mother now

     takes ``E-Tea'' daily in capsule form. She is

     still cancer-free after two years! She returned to

     the University of Washington chemotherapy center

     shortly after she was told her cancer was gone and

     danced for the patients at the hospital in order

     to encourage them never to lose hope. What a

     trooper!



     --J. Candy Arnold, Bellevue, Washington

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     Our family was devastated when my mother-in-law,

     Myrna, informed us that she had been diagnosed

     with cancer. In her case, it was ovarian cancer

     that had spread to the lymph glands and then into

     the lungs. It was diagnosed as inoperative, and

     the doctors told her to get her affairs in order.

     After a hysterectomy, they said, she would have

     about six months to live. The tumors in her lungs

     were too numerous to remove. My sister-in-law

     asked if there was some nutritional approach that

     might slow the progress of the disease. The doctor

     assured her there was none.



     Desperate, I bought several books on alternative

     cancer therapies, but I found them either too

     complicated, geographically removed, or too

     different to interest my mother-in-law. My prayers

     became more intense as I watched her arrange her

     estate and begin journeying to distant old friends

     ``to say good-bye.''



     Then one day I felt prompted to call my father.

     Curiously, he had been listening to a Dr. Glum on

     the radio, who described an herbal remedy with an

     amazing success rate. Dr. Glum was from

     California, and the story he told of this herbal

     remedy, originally from an Ojibway medicine man

     from Canada, was remarkable. Dr. Glum said he was

     not allowed to reveal the formula by any other

     means than video tape. California laws prohibit

     sharing cancer remedies that are outside the

     traditional AMA recommendations. By releasing the

     formula in movie form, Dr. Glum felt he was

     protected under the Constitutional lawsprotecting

     freedom of speech. My father noted the telephone

     number, but had not called me about it, fearing I

     would laugh at the suggestion. I immediately

     called Dr. Glum.



     The remedy was so simple and straightforward I

     knew my mother-in-law could at least try it. My

     sister-in-law and I searched the herbal markets

     for the ingredients, and Grandma began taking a

     little of the tea each night. We held our breaths.



     Her doctor was giving her a new hormonal therapy.

     He hoped it might slow the progress of her

     disease. But, both he and my mother-in-law's

     nursing cousin assured her it would be wise not to

     get her hopes up. Yet, the weekly x-rays began

     indicating something they did not expect. Little

     by little the tumors in her lungs stabilized...and

     they began to diminish.



     The nursing staff at the doctor's office reacted

     in awe as week after week the tumors began

     disappearing and her blood count returned to

     normal. After several months, one nurse, looking

     at her x-rays, asked her what her problem was,

     then told her it could not be cancer. Only after

     double checking my mother-in-law's chart did the

     nurse return to apologize. ``You were in real

     trouble!'' she said.



     A little more than a year after beginning Essiac,

     the doctor called to tell Myrna she was an

     official miracle. Her charts showed no indication

     of cancer in any system. Myrna never told him

     about Essiac. To date (11-14-95) there has been no

     recurrence of the disease that had first shown

     itself five years earlier.



     --J.R., Kirkland, Washington

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     (Well Being Journal would like to publish your

     stories of healing, from whatever method you used.

     To send your personal healing story for

     publication, mail to: Personal Stories, Well Being

     Journal, P.O. Box 1542, North Bend, WA 98045.

     Writers receive $25 and a free subscription on

     publication.)



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