Making it count: The Essiac Master Batch

Everyone's Equal Wholesale Option

This is our biggest size by far. Rene Caisse used to make this same amount on almost a daily basis and Mary McPherson helped her box and mail it to out-of-town patients. Rene also had a set-up at her home much like a Speakeasy where people could come and get a bottle of Essiac anonymously from a box at the door opening!

The Essiac Master Batch is especially perfect for buying clubs or groups of friends, family, small-scale businesses or any group with an interest in natural health. It is a win-win. We can offer a wholesale-style discount because we save on shipping and packaging costs by selling bulk, not to mention it is better business environmentally speaking. And most of all it is in keeping with our main mission: helping make Essiac more affordable and available, though not at Walgreens scale! We believe in keeping the power in the Little People's hands 🙂 ...and keeping it simple!

How Much Essiac will the Master Batch make?

One Essiac Master Batch amounts to 2 lbs. 13 oz. (45 oz. or 1,276g by weight).  This amounts to  over 2000 2-oz. servings of the liquid decoction, which would be enough for quite an occasion! One adult will consume 260 2-oz.servings per year, including breaks, on average (approx. 10 fl. oz./week). The Master batch will therefore make enough tea for up to 8 people for a year, or over 30 people for three months! The herbs come packaged separately. This is so you can see exactly what you are getting. The portions are too small to do that with our smaller sizes.

Once the herbs are mixed (detailed instructions included) you can store them in a gallon jar for up to a year in a cool, dark, dry place. You can make up anything from one quart to several gallons at a time....this is the very best price per ounce we offer. We include the recipe that Rene Caisse's helper Mary McPherson gave for Essiac in an affidavit filed with the Town of Bracebridge Ontario, Canada.

Show me the root!  Sheep sorrel, that is.

Now that Sheep sorrel root's central importance to the Essiac formula is widely recognized, many Essiac makers are beginning to include it in their products, but supply remains a huge issue. In 2021 we will begin harvesting Sheep sorrel root from the 2020 planting in our gardens in Hot Springs, MT!  The world needs more Sheep sorrel growers. Contact us if interested in learning more, or go to the Essiac Growers Guild on Facebook for growing tips. Get your seeds here~!

We take honesty in advertising very seriously.  "Show me the root?" - OK!

Open source advertising, maybe you could call it!  A picture is worth a thousand words. We've decided to give our customers an option to see just what they're getting when they buy Blue Moon Herbs Essiac. To accomplish this, the herbs in the Master Batch all come packaged separately. 

The Essiac Master Batch contents:

• 1lb. 8 oz. Burdock root, US-grown  (Oregon Tilth) certified organic, coarse-cut
• 12 oz. Sheep sorrel, arial parts, US-grown certified organic, cut 
• 4 oz. Sheep sorrel roots, US-grown (Oregon Tilth) certified organic, cut
• 4 oz. Slippery elm, inner bark, US-grown wildcrafted, powdered
• 1 oz. Turkey rhubarb, root, US-grown certified organic, powdered
• Burdock seed - 100 seeds 
• Sheep sorrel seed - 1g 
• Instructions for mixing the Master Batch
• The Essiac Essentials Handbook, Mali Klein, 2016, softcover, 82 p.

This price is 30% off our 8 oz. price and amounts to under 12 cents per one oz. serving!

***At this time, we do not sell Sheep sorrel roots separately.

More Essiac Choices: Introducing The Blue Moon Herbs Deluxe Sampler Pack!

A multiple choice answer 🙂 The Blue Moon Herbs Deluxe Essiac Tea Sampler Pack

We have been putting together buying options for small and medium budgets at Blue Moon. In the past week we have added two products that widen your choices when looking to try working with the variations on the basic Essiac formula. Now there are three combination pack buying choices, with up to 10% savings!

The Essiac Sampler Pack - $25 - 30g herbs, approx. 6 weeks' supply

The Essiac Tea Combo Program - a six month program - $123 - 120g herbs - Includes the Essiac Essentials Handbook and Program Guidelines.

The Deluxe Essiac Tea Sampler Pack - $55 - 50g of herbs, approx. 3 months' supply + 10g Essiac Topical Solution herbs (can be used either internally or externally) Also includes a 1 oz. measuring spoon and ceramic Blue Moon teacup!

All of our herb mixes (with the exception of Essiac Topical Solution) contain Rene Caisse's classic 4-herb Essiac formula consisting of Burdock, Sheep sorrel (25% roots), Slippery elm and Turkey rhubarb. Essiac Gold also includes Goldenseal and Essiac with Red Clover also includes Red clover. Essiac Extra's Sheep sorrel is 50% roots.

Want Sheep sorrel root?

The Essiac Topical Solution herbs contain 63% Sheep sorrel roots, with Sheep sorrel leaves and Slippery elm inner bark comprising the rest of the mix. There are a lot of different ways to work with this tea mix. It can be taken as you would take regular Essiac, but it is designed to also be used topically. The many possible uses are described with the included instructions. One use that is not mentioned is that it could be used to increase the root content of Essiac made from scratch. This is something to consider, as Sheep sorrel root remains commercially unavailable sold alone.

A little history

The 4-herb Essiac was Rene Caisse's core formula from the late 1920s onward.  However, odds are definitely in favor of her occasionally using some of the other herbs from the original 8-herb formula - Watercress, Red clover, Periwinkle and Goldthread - when they were available and/or she wanted the additional herb for a specific patient. She also substituted other herbs in when supplies were low. For example, she probably occasionally substituted Red clover or Watercress for Sheep sorrel. Essiac Gold and Essiac with Red Clover are two of the adjunct formulae that Mali Klein determined were the most accurate representations of what Rene Caisse was doing, based on testimony from the 1939 Canadian Cancer Commission hearings and many other clues in the Essiac Archives collected and analyzed over time. 

Archival Evidence And a new website: The Essiac Council!

The Sheila Snow Fraser Essiac Archives Collection is now available online for the whole world to enjoy, study and learn from! I can't begin to say how amazing this new website is! It is completely searchable and worthy of being the database for formal Essiac research for our future and that of everyone on the earth! There is nothing like it anywhere else on the internet for solid Essiac information. We were honored to be one of only a few to receive our own copy of the original archive collection digitally. We very much look forward to analyzing and blogging about the information and evidence, when we are not growing Sheep sorrel or getting in hot water!! Do visit EssiacCouncil.org.

Enjoy your Essiac and the return of sunnier days. May we all be very well!

Introducing Essiac Extra!

Essiac Extra is our version of a "double strength" Essiac. The herbs-to-water ratio is the same as all of our Essiac blends - the "double strength" part comes from using twice as much Sheep sorrel root (and half as much leaf) in the mix.

The more Sheep sorrel root in Essiac, the more potent it is.  Rene Caisse hung her hat on the importance of it as the key active ingredient in Essiac. We don't usually include more than 25% roots in our Essiac formulae, so that we can consistently have enough of a supply to maintain that ratio. But for a while... we are going to make Essiac with 50% roots. The times seem to call for a little extra boost to our good immunity!

With the higher root content, the boiling time for Essiac Extra decoction is lengthened slightly. Other than that the entire preparation process is the same. The recommended dosage is the same, 1-2 fl. oz. (30-60ml) per day. It has a great smooth feel to it and is a little darker than regular Essiac. It tastes awesome!

AVAILABLE WHILE SUPPLIES LAST.  In a perfect world everyone would have access to great Essiac made using the public domain Essiac formula, containing Sheep sorrel with at least 25% roots. Essiac blends containing other herbs or a higher percentage of Sheep sorrel roots would be readily available as well with the common denominator being a healthy ratio of Sheep sorrel roots no matter what else. In an even more perfect world, people would be growing their own medicinal herbs and making their own Essiac and being empowered and healed by the very act of hands in dirt nurturing new beginnings.

But the world is not quite perfect yet! Blue Moon Herbs continues to offer the seeds to grow your own Essiac herbs so you can augment the quantity of root in your Essiac without hugely adding to the cost, and we will be upping the root content in our Essiac for a few months, in the form of Essiac Extra.

Fact: Most of the Sheep sorrel in Rene Caisse's Essiac was the aerial parts. Supplies were scarce, demand was high, and she was not able to come near to including 100% roots in her Essiac. She reserved the roots mainly for her injectable therapy which was a Sheep sorrel decoction. Because it was an injection this enabled many more people to receive the medicine as a much smaller amount was used compared to in the tea form. Most likely the success she had during the time she had her Bracebridge Ontario Essiac Cancer Clinic derived from this Sheep sorrel injection. Much easier would be to grow your own Sheep sorrel in a pot on your patio or in your garden and add extra roots when you make your Essiac! Injections of herbal decoctions are no longer an accepted method!

It is not known for certain whether excluding all the Sheep sorrel aerial parts in Essiac is the best course. Some research indicates that juice from the leaves may have properties that add to its overall positive impact. We at Blue Moon like to always include at least some leaves because Rene Caisse did. Essiac with 100% roots would be prohibitively expensive to produce on a large scale. "We the People" can grow it ourselves for next to nothing though!

Conclusion: Rene Caisse did not have enough Sheep sorrel root to make Essiac with all or even mostly roots because she had too many people wanting Essiac. She was the only supplier in the world. In today's world the commercial availability of Sheep sorrel root is very low so it doesn't make any sense to try to include such a high percentage unless you grow your own.  We are working on the supply end by growing and contracting for growing specifically for the root. For the time, we are very pleased to offer Essiac with Extra Sheep sorrel roots, while supplies last! Enjoy your Essiac Extra!

Mali Klein is coming back to the US – new books and video coming!

Update as of May 18, 2018:  The Essiac Essentials Handbook by Mali Klein is now in print! It is a beauty! Just drove to Pine Orchard Press in Moscow Idaho to pick the new books up! Mali Klein is arriving in just over one week and we'll be looking forward to sharing our visit via video, with all who love Essiac! Stay tuned 🙂 Click HERE to order the Essiac Essentials Handbook!

Sheila Snow and Mali Klein are the light-bearers of the truth when it comes to Rene Caisse and Essiac. They have collectively written a total of nine books about it. Now the number is eleven! Mali and Sheila began a collaboration in the mid-1990s following the death of Mali's husband Gregory. Mali was starting an Essiac charity in England to honor how it had helped in their journey with a brain tumor. Mali traveled to Bracebridge Ontario to meet Sheila, who had written The Essence of Essiac in 1993. (The charity, Clouds Trust, has been very successful and is still in operation and thriving in 2018!)

Mali returned for many more visits over the years, and she learned more and more from Sheila and Mary McPherson, Rene's other long-time friend and associate. It became apparent that there was more to the story than the public had been told, and there was substantial misinformation circulating. After Rene's death in 1978, there was no one left who knew the whole truth about Essiac, except Mary and Sheila. A trend towards stronger concentrations of the decoction and higher dosages that began in the U.S. had begun to obscure the ways in which Rene had worked with the formulae.

As a result, each successive Snow/Klein book has had more to say on the subject. The first book Sheila and Mali co-authored was Essiac Essentials (1999).  Essiac the Secrets of Rene Caisse's Herbal Pharmacy was published in 2001 and The Essiac Book was published in 2006. Mary died in 2006. Sheila passed away in 2008. Sheila had spent years collecting Essiac history and all the papers and pieces of it were passed on to Mali in 2010. Yours truly Debbie Jakovac began working with Mali to preserve the Essiac legacy that same year. In 2011 The Complete Essiac Essentials was published as part of that collaboration. We brought Mali from Europe for a visit in 2010 and brought her back to the US again in 2012, 2013 and 2014 and Mali and I spent time in Bracebridge Ontario, Rene's home town, as well as in the NW US giving Essiac classes. Since then many more have joined us on our journey and mission to keep the knowledge of Essiac accurate and to keep the herbs available to all who wish to explore this simple and safe key to good health.  It is very heartening to see how Essiac and herbal medicine have begun to be recognized more widely again. It is also very heartening to see how the importance of Sheep sorrel root in the Essiac formula has become known more widely known largely because of Mali Klein's work!

As Mali became more and more aware of the importance of Sheep sorrel roots in the Essiac formula she felt the public had a right to know. Especially considering how strongly Nurse Caisse felt about it in her correspondence with the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center during the 1970s when they researched Essiac.

“You can buy the crushed leaves but they are no good alone.  I found this out when I needed so much, when treating three to six hundred people afflicted with cancer every week for eight and a half years.  I do know that the whole plant is needed.”  

Each Snow/Klein book had a little more to say about it as a result.

The first book, Essiac Essentials, placed little emphasis - 'One level teaspoonful of it is sufficient for each 16 ounces of the powdered summer harvest of leaves." In both Essiac Essentials and Essiac The Secrets of Rene Caisse's Pharmacy (Snow/Klein, 2001) the recipe simply calls for "Sheep sorrel, powdered." But then when The Essiac Book came out in 2006, Mali recommended that 25% of the Sheep sorrel portion should be roots, officially breaking the 'code of silence'.

In The Complete Essiac Essentials (2010), Mali reported, "The root contains important additional elements in comparison to the aerial parts of the Sheep sorrel herb and must be included in as great a quantity as possible in the decoctions." (emphasis added) Mali herself uses 100% root but it is still difficult to source Sheep sorrel root, so it is difficult to include that much for most people unless they grow their own. (It is easy to grow.)

Mali has now completed her thesis and made her findings on the key to what made Essiac so effective when Rene Caisse operated her Cancer clinic in the 1930s.  Coming available in softcover format from Blue Moon Herbs in the summer of 2018 is The Essiac Essentials Handbook.  Its here!!! As of May 15, 2018 we are so pleased to announce that the new book is off the press and available!!  They are really beautiful books, with full color illustrations throughout and if it is true that the best comes at the last, then this proves it out.  Mali Klein, thank you!

The Essiac Essentials Handbook is also currently available in English, French and German on Amazon, with excellent translations. The book illustrates how the Essiac formula was altered after Rene Caisse's death. The ebook even has an audio file of a telephone conversation between Dr. Charles Brusch and Sheila Snow wherein he confesses he does not know the Essiac formula. Mali makes a powerful case for formal research of the original Native American  8-herb Essiac formula (not to be confused with present-day 8-herb formulas on the market, which only have some of the right herbs). Lastly, this book really shows Mary's personality more than the earlier books have, and it is a delight to get to know Mary a little better inside these pages.

Mali Klein also released another ebook book in April 2017 - this one is available free of charge, just click on the link:  A Dangerous Sweetness.   It is the life story of her husband Gregory Klein. Much of the book is based on his memoirs covering growing up in Buffalo NY, service in the Marines in Viet Nam, being discharged as a disabled veteran, and his subsequent journey to becoming a Theravadan Buddhist monk and one of the first four to bring this form of Buddhism to the Western World. It also chronicles his service-based brain cancer diagnosis and the poignance of that lesson in impermanence.

Last but not least! Mali is coming back for another visit! ...And lo and behold, that time has arrived!  Mali will be here from May 28-June 3 and we're very excited to share the visit via video! Stay tuned as we visit about Essiac and contact us if you have something you'd like us to discuss.  Mali Klein is a living encyclopedia of Essiac knowledge and we encourage your questions!

Open Source Essiac Information

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! (more…)

Essiac Master Class 2014 – food for thought

Funny how one day things appear in a certain light, and then the next day everything changes in such a fundamental way that its like when a whole flock of birds simultaneously moves as one, in a new direction altogether.  Suddenly the picture has transformed and it's a brand new beginning!

"A new idea is like a plant. It takes time to establish a good root system before it begins to bear fruit." - Mali Klein, Essiac Master Class 2014

Food for thought:  Mali posits a plateful of it in the following synopsis:  (more…)

Introducing the Ultimate Essiac!

Note - February 2014 update:  For 'the rest of the story' read on as we describe how we have tailored our Essiac herbal blend to be the highest quality, most potent Essiac available on the market. Or, to order click here.

From November 2013:

Its hard to believe November is packing its bags already! In about six weeks it'll be 2014, and another new year will have been rung in.

Last summer we began to offer a version of Essiac that hasn't been on the market for a long time - (more…)

Introducing a new cup of tea!

We're so pleased to announce that we finally have found a source for organically grown whole herb Sheep sorrel! Historically, there has been virtually no commercial source for whole herb Sheep sorrel. Even the wildcrafted root is not for sale anywhere. The arial parts of the plant are fairly readily available, but neither sheep sorrel roots nor  the whole herb, including roots,  has basically ever been commercially available anywhere.  It's labor-intensive to harvest commercially, and since harvest wipes out the crop, it has to be re-planted, and can effectively only be harvested once a year at best. It really doesn't pencil out for commercial farms to grow it.

With much gratitude we wish to send a Big Thank You! to (more…)

Ready to Brew Essiac Tea Herbs

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Pre-mixed, ready to brew

• Burdock root, cut
• Sheep sorrel whole plant including roots, coarse ground
• Slippery Elm inner bark, powdered
• Turkey Rhubarb root, powdered

All of our herbs are organically grown or sustainably wildcrafted in unpolluted areas in Idaho and Montana. Instructions come with all sizes for making up as little as one quart at a time.

Rene Caisse recommended a typical dose of one to two fl. oz. of Essiac decoction per day, diluted in two to four fl. oz. water.

The one oz. packet will make 64 fl. oz. (2 quarts) of tea, enough for one month or longer for one person at the recommended dosage.

The two oz. size makes one gallon worth of the tea.The four oz. size makes two gallons of tea, and the eight oz. size is enough herbs for four gallons of tea. The herbs can be stored in the foil zip pouches that they arrive in. One oz. of the dry mix equals approximately 1/4 cup, so smaller amounts of the decoction can be made and the rest of the mix stored in a cool, dry place.

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Books

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The Complete Essiac Essentials

Released in March 2011 - The definitive Snow/Klein work on Essiac! The Complete Essiac Essentials is the best and only handbook in print that fully tells the Essiac story. This book is invaluable for understanding the proper use of Essiac tea and how Rene Caisse used Essiac and its various formulae in her Bracebridge, Ontario Cancer Clinic.

Its the latest and the last word on Essiac. This three-in-one edition includes an all-new chapter entitled "Peeking into the Archive," as well as new material on the original native formula. It also contains for the first time useful sample "Programs" for people to follow using Essiac, and the various other Essiac formulae in combination.

I got the books a couple of days ago. They are impressive. -Dennis W., March 23, 2011

I came to this book not knowing anything about Essiac when my friend sent me a copy. And am I glad that she did! Not only did I learn about Essiac and its impact on the lives of those who used it, but I learned the incredible story of Rene Caisse, her dedication and devotion to caring for people afflicted with serious illnesses and her struggles to get information dispersed among the populace.

-Natalie G., July 1, 2011

"It is a master-piece of bringing together a concise, all-inclusive rendering of the archive I turned over to you on Sheila's behalf in 2005. I did it almost reluctantly, knowing full-well the enormity of the task it would present in sorting it all out. Thank you from my heart and soul! Congratulations on a classic edition which will certainly make waves. I can feel the ripples already and I know in my heart that Sheila feels them too."

-Mike Snow to Mali Klein, received April 7, 2011

Thank you for the copy of the new book—very interesting read!

- Maria B., March 29, 2011

Your book is awesome, I really like it. Very interesting.

-Deborah, June 11, 2011

The book is amazing! I have several on Essiac and this is by far the best one... it's really good!

-Joe M., May 11, 2012

The Complete Essiac Essentials - Retail Price $35.00 Now $22.00!

192 Pages softcover

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Email [email protected] for more information or phone (406) 883-0110

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I Was Canada’s Cancer Nurse

This booklet was written by Rene Caisse in 1963, at age 75. She tells the story of Essiac, beginning with her introduction to the Native American formula in the 1920s, to her subsequent development and refinement of the Essiac formulae. All the excitement of those Essiac heydays of the 1920s and 1930s, when she came within three votes in the Canadian Parliament of being allowed to practice medicine as a nurse, based on the remarkable success she was having treating patients at her Essiac cancer clinic in Bracebridge, Ontario, is recounted, along with the subsequent disappointment and frustrations.

Unlike the trajectory of some of the other alternative cancer remedies of the day, such as Harry Hoxsey's medicines, and Max Gerson's therapies, Rene Caisse did not up the ante on Essiac with any more court challenges and did not set up any clinics in Mexico. Instead, she retired from the limelight, quietly continued to supply her patients, and in this quiet way, Essiac has kept its place at the table, as the People's modern folk remedy.

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