Rene Caisse’s Pharmacy
Posted on March 15th, 2021
Essiac Extra, Essiac Gold, Essiac with Red Clover: Introducing The Essiac Tea Combo Program. Varying the Formula and dosage, Keeping your body engaged in the healing process.
A lot of people have inquired about whether there is a more intense Essiac regimen for serious illnesses such as cancer or even COVID. The standard dosage recommendation is an all-encompassing 1-2 oz. per day regardless of the condition. Rene Caisse didn't go along with the 'more is better' approach, and remained adamant about the lower dosages. However, there is a way to make the smaller doses more potent: increase the amount of Sheep sorrel roots by substituting them in place of sorrel leaves and stems. The Essiac Tea Combo Program includes our most potent Essiac formula, Essiac Extra, Sheep sorrel content 50% roots, as well as two other Essiac combinations, for variety in both dosage and the formula.
Included in the Kit:
- Four 20g packets Essiac Extra (4- herb Essiac with Sheep sorrel 50% root)
- Two 10g packets Essiac with Red Clover tea
- Two 10g packet Essiac Gold tea
- Program Guidelines
- The Essiac Essentials Handbook (Mali Klein, 2016, softcover)
This program will last approximately six months.
In The Complete Essiac Essentials book (2010) Mali Klein presented a series of different possible regimens for people to follow that would accomplish two things that greatly enhance the efficacy of herbal medicine: varying formulae and dosages. This kit does that. All of the herbs are U.S.-grown and either Certified organic or wild-harvested responsibly from clean places.
Here are a couple examples of additional ways to work with the herbs in the kit: (We also include a basic protocol you can follow.)
Vary the dosage
- Instead of taking 2 oz. at bedtime, take half in the morning and half at bedtime.
- For one week, take 1 oz./30ml per day, and the second week, take 2 oz./60ml per day.
- Take an extra serving for up to 3-4 days, either taking one large dose, or dividing it up over the day.
- Take one or two days off weekly.
- Take one week off after three months.
- Take Essiac with the changing of the seasons.
Vary the formula
- Vary the amount of Sheep sorrel root, always using formulae with a minimum of 25% root to arial parts. The Sheep sorrel content of all of the herbs in the Kit is at least 25% roots.
- Include Goldenseal in the basic formula (Essiac Gold).
- Include Red clover in the basic formula (Essiac with Red Clover).
Save 10% off the list price by purchasing this Kit!
Posted on March 6th, 2015
The term 'open source' is based upon "sharing information from publicly available sources (as opposed to covert or clandestine sources)."
I have been following a Facebook group called the Rene Caisse Essiac Tea Users Group. It has been quite a journey and has really brought home a few realizations. Facebook is like a slice of the greater world and … although free speech is a precious thing, things can sometimes get lost in the translation….or buried in the posts! Read More →
Posted on August 23rd, 2014
We hope you can join us at one of the following venues:
St. John's Building Law Library, 25 S. Ewing
6:30 pm (FREE)
Emerson Cultural Center,
the Weaver Room
3:30 pm (FREE)
Montana Co-op, 401 Main St.
6:30 pm (FREE)
Essiac Master Class: Healing Cancer – can it be Done?
The Open Way Mindfulness Center, 702 Brooks St.
9:15 am – 6:00 pm ($100, $120 after Oct. 1)
Mali will be speaking at 10:45 a.m. and we will be at the Montana Co-op table with - signed : ) - books and tea for sale afterwards!
Montana Health Expo, Red Lion Hotel
20 N Main St #150
10:45 am (FREE)
Spokane Buddhist Temple, 927 S Perry St.
6:30 pm (FREE)
Essiac - An afternoon Seminar about Herbs and Cancer with Mali Klein
Works Progress, 115 N. 85th St., Ste. 202,
3-5:30 pm ($25)
Posted on August 23rd, 2014
Meet us in Seattle!!
‘I think that old Essiac did work… there will be a resurgence of
interest. I’m not pessimistic about the long view for Essiac.’
Dr. John Barker, October 1977
Click here to register!
Posted on August 23rd, 2014
Meet us in Missoula!!
This is the only Essiac master class offered anywhere. It happens only once per year, and 2014 marks our final gathering in Missoula, Montana. This is a one-of-a-kind experience. It will not be recorded, in keeping with the idea behind such gatherings, so that the experience will be intimate, candid and completely unique. The theme will be about Essiac and its role in healing in the context of our personal lives as well as how that can best compliment the world we live in. Participants will directly experience some of the healing protocols Mali Klein has developed over the past twenty years. All are welcome, including those with serious illness, as well as those in the profession of providing health care. It is for anyone who sees the importance of keeping the knowledge and use of this and other herbal medicines alive and would like to be part of a dialogue about how we as individuals, professionals and businesspersons can help to facilitate this.
Essiac and herbal medicine can have an amazing role to play in the emerging healing paradigms of the 21st century. Master class attendees will be introduced to a perspective not shared quite so freely in the written word as it will be in this session. Each class has been a stand-alone experience and prior attendance is not required.
The 2014 Master Class will focus on the original 8-herb formula handed down from an old Native American medicine man in Northern Ontario in the 1890s. But more than that, it will be from the perspective of the Medicine man that brought this formula to us in the 1890s. Before the days of Essiac. (The formula was later reduced to a four herb formula by Rene Caisse and those four herbs - Burdock, Sheep sorrel, Slippery elm and Turkey rhubarb, make up most of what is sold as Essiac today.)
This original eight herb formula is what Rene began working with when she first started her work with the herbs in the 1920s, and the results were impressive. Mali Klein's work now focuses almost completely on this original eight-herb formula, which has been shelved since the 1920s, and which Rene Caisse only revealed in writing once. Virtually all of the 8-herb Essiac formulas on the market today do not contain the herbs originally used.
Mali will be sharing her findings about this indigenous formula and what happened to it in her newest book Black Root Medicine, the Original Native American Essiac Formula, to be released September 1, 2014. Mali will share some insights and evidence that will forever change your assumptions about what Essiac is and how the politics and confusion about the correct formula following Rene's death resulted in so much misinformation about Essiac in the years to follow.
Included in the tuition will be signed copies of the new book!
Mali will go deep into the subject of healing and living a quality life, with or without serious health challenges, and will be sharing a unique approach to health and healing using a combination drawing from Native American, Buddhist and other spiritual traditions. Mali will also be available for private consultations from October 1 - 24.
Register now, class size is limited!
Cost $100 early bird, $120 after October 1. Call (406) 883-0110 for more information.
Posted on November 3rd, 2013
October 2013 has come and gone. Like October '12, it was full of activity here at ReneCaisseTea and all about Essiac! Once again we sponsored Mali Klein, author of The Complete Essiac Essentials and the forthcoming book Black Root Medicine: The Original Native American Essiac Formula, for this year's Essiac Master Class 2 - Surviving Cancer. Again, it was in Missoula Montana and, again, it was so much more than what any of us could have imagined. Each year there are new friends made and continuing connections that just keep growing stronger! We already have next year's class planned for Saturday, October 11, 2014: Essiac Master Class Part 3 - Black Root Medicine at the Open Way Mindfulness Center, Missoula, Montana. So, mark your calendars to learn first-hand more about this herbal remedy that has been with us now for over 100 years…and hear what Mali will be saying as Black Root Medicine: The Original Native American Essiac Formula comes off the press. And gosh, it's about a lot more than Essiac.
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A few highlights from Master Class 2013:
- In France, the standard Western medicine cancer protocols allow for beginning with radiation and chemo followed by surgery, rather than performing surgery first. This lets the other therapies kick in first, knocking the cancer back before surgically removing it. Many French medical doctors are trained in homeopathy as well as allopathy.
- There is too much positive anecdotal evidence not to justify lab testing of the Essiac formulae, using top quality herbs and including the proper ingredients - something which has, to date, never been done.
- Rene Caisse first worked with the original 8-herb Native American formula, but she subsequently discontinued using all eight herbs once the four-herb Essiac was refined for use on a large scale. The original indigenous formula had quite an amazing track record and has not been reproduced since 1926.
- You should harvest Burdock root in its first year as it gets woody after that. If you plant in the fall, you can go beyond a year until harvesting if you dig it before the spring growth has gotten underway, in the second spring.
- Greater Periwinkle can be identified by the small 'hairs' along the edge of its leaves.
- When harvesting Sheep sorrel stems and leaves, do so on a dry day and don't wash them.
- Life is about making it count, with or without a cancer diagnosis! We are all here with a mission and we are here to do it well.
- Connecting to the power of your intention with a higher consciousness using the power of prayer can have a profound effect on a prognosis. The power of thought can be more powerful than the spoken word.
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October '12 began with a trip to Bracebridge, Ontario, Rene Caisse's hometown. This year we stayed closer to Montana, visiting Yellowstone Park just a day after it re-opened following the Federal government shutdown. It was practically deserted and what a great time to visit.
Yellowstone is the nation's oldest national park, and was established in 1872, "For the Benefit and the Enjoyment of the People." Nice concept and a good motto to take to heart perhaps for other matters of State. 🙂
Most of the Park is one huge volcano with Yellowstone Lake in the caldera's center. The Yellowstone Caldera was created 640,000 years ago, with two even larger super-eruptions before that, the biggest one being 2.1 million years ago and producing 2,500 times as much ash as Mt. St. Helens did in 1980. I remember when that event occurred - St. Helens, that is, ha ha. It laid down several inches of ash in Helena, Montana, which was nearly 700 miles to the east! That multiplied by 2,500 times is truly unimaginable.
There haven't been any huge eruptions since 174,000 years ago, but here's what Wikipedia has to say about the magma chamber just below the Yellowstone caldera's surface: "According to the analysis of earthquake data in 2013, magma chamber is 80 kilometres long and 20 kilometres wide, and is …. thought to be the largest magma chamber in existence on Earth."
Its quite a place. Glad I finally got back to Yellowstone, its been far too long. What amazing power below our feet, up there right on top of a sleeping giant!
Apparently the grizzly bears thought the spectators were all gone, because they were out and we were so lucky to see two of them! The weather was beautiful... pictures below. Enjoy!
Welcome to the North Entrance of Yellowstone
Yellowstone hot springs - Midway and Lower Geyser Basin
Lower Falls - near Canyon Village - 308 feet
Reflections
Bald Eagle near West Entrance
Old Faithful!
Mammoth Hot Springs
Boiling Mud Pots, Midway and Lower Geyser Basin
The 370-foot-wide and 121-foot-deep Grand Prismatic Spring, the largest hot spring in Yellowstone.
200-by-300-foot-wide Excelsior Geyser which pours over 4,000 gallons per minute into the Firehole River.
Go Griz!
Posted on August 1st, 2013
An invitation to Essiac Master Class Part 2
Surviving Cancer.
The Open Way - 702 Brooks St.
Missoula, Montana
October 12-13, 2013
A Workshop with Mali Klein, author of
The Complete Essiac Essentials
And Debbie Jakovac ReneCaisseTea.com
In Part 2 of the Essiac Master Class, author and researcher Mali Klein will discuss the importance of the original Native American eight-herb formula that Canadian Nurse Rene Caisse used to develop her Essiac therapy made famous in the Bracebridge Cancer Clinic in the 1930’s. She will describe her experiences working with cancer patients over the past two decades and consider the relevance of the Essiac remedy in treatment programs today.
After writing four books on Essiac, Mali Klein now looks back to the time before Rene Caisse and before this tea became known as Essiac. The earliest records begin with an English woman in a mining camp in northern Ontario in the late 1800s. She received a gift from a medicine man that she passed on to Rene Caisse twenty-some years later. Mali has some practical and insightful perspective to share about the original eight-herb formula and its relevance in today's world. She has been researching and writing about Essiac since 1993 and is also curator of the world’s largest body of Essiac history, the Sheila Snow Fraser Essiac Archive collection.
Black Root Medicine, the Original Native American Essiac Formula breaks new ground and will be a complete departure from the earlier books on Rene Caisse and Essiac.
This master class is designed for professionals and laypersons, patients and doctors alike. It’s for anyone who wishes to learn more about this remedy from the last living link to Rene Caisse, a well-liked and widely-respected source of Essiac knowledge, Mali Klein.
Mali teaches one master class per year, and true to the intended meaning of ‘master class’, no videotaping will be allowed in order that she may speak candidly.
Growing and Harvesting the Essiac Herbs, for ourselves, our communities and for the future
Mali Klein founded Clouds Trust in the UK and has been growing and harvesting the Essiac herbs continually for the past nineteen years. Debbie Jakovac is the owner and operator of ReneCaisseTea.com and has been involved with wild-harvesting and growing the Essiac herbs since 2007. She has been involved in all aspects of running a small business geared towards making the Essiac herbs available commercially. She is currently researching a model for local and regional production of the herbs that will facilitate a marriage of the best of medium-scale commercial organic farming and smaller-scale production utilizing permaculture principles.
The model anticipates creating a bioregional Essiac Growers Guild network that will ultimately build community, create a niche for small-time entrepreneurs and help keep quality Essiac and other herbal remedies widely available.
Hugelkultur raised bed - Permaculture design
Open to all, attendance at Essiac Master Class Part 1 is not required.
Click here to register online.
Or, call (406) 883-0110
Hope to see you there!
"Thank you for a wonderful class. There is such a feeling of getting back to the roots. ha ha. That tea spirit was swimming around inside and I realized how this modern life (caffeine, thousands of supplements, encapsulated "herbal' products etc etc) override the power of the plant. I myself barely take the time.?Thank you for providing all of that." S.L., 2012 Master Class attendant
Posted on November 1st, 2012
Its the first day of November. The Essiac master class has come and gone. We had a great group - a real cross-section of folks including naturopaths and other healing arts practitioners, growers, people on their journeys with cancer, nurses, folks from Canada as well as the U.S., both original inhabitants and us 'imports.'
The master class was not recorded or videotaped so that the discussion could be candid. In this time of webinars and info going 'viral' on the internet, we decided to go 'back to the source' - a sharing amongst those there, just like the beginning of this tea, person to person. From there it grows, naturally. Read More →
