Mali Klein has done it again! The Complete Essiac Essentials Centennial Edition 1922-2022 is now back from the printers and available exclusively at Blue Moon Herbs and Great Divide Books Montana on Amazon! This Snow/Klein book #7 is the most comprehensive, insightful and all-encompassing presentation of the history of Rene Caisse and Essiac on the planet, and it always will be. It is the product of the decades-long collaboration of Sheila Snow-Fraser and Mali Klein, not only friends but allies in doing all they could to make sure Essiac was never forgotten. This book is beautifully put together and will be a great addition to anyone's library now or in the future!
Each successive Snow/Klein book about Essiac paints a fuller picture of what Mali Klein has concluded after half a lifetime of Essiac research. The final strokes are bold. This book impeccably sets forth the complete story of Rene Caisse and Essiac from its modern world debut in the late 19th century all the way into the 21st century where it's still being told.
The Complete Essiac Essentials Centennial Edition 1922-2022is unique in so many ways! It is full of beautiful color illustrations. We pulled out the stops for this, the Last Best One from the Last Best Place, Montana. The book was produced from high quality materials and is designed to benefit not only the current occupants of our world, but those who come after. It is in a class of its own in so many ways. From interesting touches like not even one blank page, not even the very first and last ones, to the very big significance of this being the last word from the women who were Rene Caisse's friends and closest allies. It's the straight version of the history of Essiac and its meant for the benefit of all, as Rene wanted the whole world to know about Essiac and to have access to it.
Softcover, 2021, Sheila Snow/Mali Klein, 207 p. Available starting November 8, 2022 on this website and from Great Divide Books Montana on Amazon.
I hope this will give both liberals and conservatives a smile. Music will keep us from going crazy...or maybe it will just help in a small, daily way, to get us through these times. Let's love one another.
Its August 11, 2022, exactly 134 years from the day Rene Caisse was born in 1888, in Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada! 2022 also marks 100 years since Rene got the original Essiac recipe from a patient of hers in the hospital at Haileybury, Ontario. The patient described how she had gotten the recipe from a Native American medicine man some 30 years earlier and had fully recovered from a case of breast cancer that had been diagnosed in Toronto. The patient, Mrs. Johnson, or Johnston (which is as close to her real name as we'll get, because a few years later the hospital burned down and the records were lost), in sharing the formula with Rene, marked Essiac's birth into the world of 20th century medicine. 100 years ago allopathic medicine, aka modern western medicine, had just begun sharing the stage with herbal medicine, which had been around for a very long time indeed. 100 years later and Essiac has managed to survive. Perhaps there is some value in the anecdotal record! Today herbal medicine is regaining recognition as we once again behold the simplicity and fundamental common sense of the idea of food as medicine.
Its been a while since I have written a blog, but every August 11, there is sure to be a very Happy Birthday to Rene, and here it is. More to come this fall including a new book from Mali Klein: The Complete Essiac Essentials Centennial Edition! Currently at the printers! Debbie
Thank you Rene Caisse for your gift of Essiac! It has made it to the 21st century without being lost to history, no small feat!
Blue Moon Herbs has been dedicated to keeping Essiac and information about it available for the benefit of all, to help preserve Rene Caisse's legacy and help folks enjoy the fruits of it. Essiac is a fundamental and very pleasant facilitating factor in the art of living life with compassion and love and in wellness. Before enlightenment, drink Essiac. After enlightenment, drink Essiac. Enjoy your Essiac and Love your neighbor!!
Blue Moon Herbs - Who We Are and What We Are About
From the heart of Montana’s beautiful Flathead, greetings and Happy New Year from Blue Moon Herbs! Our company is a small one with a simple mission around healing and Essiac. We make Essiac tea using organic high quality herbs and we replicate Rene Caisse’s known protocol and formulae. We hang our hat on the central importance of the one ingredient she believed the most deeply in - Sheep sorrel, specifically the root. The more of it in the Sheep sorrel portion of Essiac, the better.
But this isn't just about Essiac. Its about doing things right, and what our values are at Blue Moon.
About giving and receiving...we are here for Essiac, not the money. However, it does greatly help provide a living for about six of us. We don't count our hours. We just try to do right by the money we get, which is $15 per hour. Because we are committed to respect, honesty, trust, and good communication, it works great! When you love what you do, and you all share in the work done and the benefits gained, it can be a great way of having success, not just financial and not just for some but for everyone. (Hey, Congress...!)
I have long wondered what a world where money simply didn't matter would look like. It sure would change a lot of things. I think it would be good to reflect on this. What if we got to choose?
What if we could take care of our health care needs without worrying about the cost and/or the service being covered? Blue Moon Herbs doesn't have a health insurance plan. Our steps in the right direction at this point include free soak passes at the hot springs, or a trip to the naturopath, as needs arise. It is just a token, but we are there for each other if anything comes up at least. Of course we all have free Essiac 🙂 We are healthy and happy and our fingers are crossed. We have been and remain COVID-free at Blue Moon. But wouldn't it be so great if we could have affordable health insurance that covered the services and medicines we'd like it to, and with just one small deductible for everything. We get to create the future we want. Once the dust settles at Congress, right?! 'We' is all of us. Even the ones we can't relate to. Ironic but true. We all have work to do.
Our Mission
In a nutshell, the We Can Change the World Even if It Doesn't Always Seem Like It Federation's Blue Moon mission is pretty basic: to get Essiac to who it is supposed to go to, one way or another, while providing a model for how this can be done in sustainable win-win ways that benefit both Main Street and everybody back at home.
We are inspired by simplicity. As has been the case for more than 100 years, Essiac appears to do no harm, and it just may do some good! Goodwill, kindness and respect also do no harm and will surely also do us all some good. Let's 'take it to heart.' Let us be patient but committed to justice and peace beyond Blue Moon (or wherever you are). It may take a minute yet.
Giving Back - the Glad To Be Here Project
The Blue Moon Glad To Be Here Project is our ongoing informal effort to get Essiac herbs to anyone interested and in need in our local area, especially Tribal members (We live and do business on the Flathead Indian Reservation). After all, the tea came to our modern times from Native Americans. There is much more healing to come. Our inspiration: Moke Eaglefeathers, passed on five years ago this coming May 2021. The circle is completing. As a white person, I am not sure what it means, but I want to thank Moke again in a way that will honor him and also help lives.
This grassroots approach grows good things. It's not funded by mystery money from unknown people, it is local. It develops organically, fed by real time communication and collaboration between real people. In the end, the will of the people will always prevail. Small is beautiful. It matters in the 'big' picture. Big depends on it to show the dance step of moving towards peace.
"Peace begins with a smile." - Mother Theresa
I like going by the Four Agreements - basically: Take nothing personally, Don't assume anything, Do your best, and Keep your promises. Even if that's not what you are surrounded by, hold steady.
The Future
Our future is a canvas, still blank, and awaiting our brushstroke. It remains to be seen what kind of picture we will create but one thing is for sure. Its up to all of us to create something original and beautiful without hurting anyone along the way. That's my prayer for the next week, and onward. We all want a world we can feel happy and safe living in, all of us.
Stand down? For sure!! How about, let's Sit Down. Let’s put love over hate, truth over falsehood, and goodness over evil, as Peace Pilgrim, one of my biggest heroes, advocated. Let’s not paint with blood. Let’s all take turns and cooperate. We were wired to work together. Let’s do it!
Accepting loss
I read a story about a woman whose baby had died but she kept carrying it around looking for someone who could bring it back to life. Everyone kind of looked at her a little funny, but finally she found a wise man that told her he could help her. All she had to do was bring him one grain of rice from a household that had never known sorrow.
We all know the frustration when we think we are right and the other guy is wrong and he won’t listen to reason. But real solutions come from real problem-solving, and a sincere mutual desire to work things out fairly. I don't know how you get there, but it seems like we all have to search our souls for the best way we can be part of the solution while harming no one else. Because ultimately we will come to realize that we are all feeling the same emotions even if for different reasons. That is just reality. We all want a future with a place to live and love that is safe and clean and where the citizens respect each other and work together to create a great place to raise kids and enjoy all life has to offer.
We can get our balance back by creating solutions that work for everyone and hurt no one. Let’s start by getting behind what we believe in, and being there for those we care for, as we do what we can to bring the Light of Love back in all its Brilliance.
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!
It's all in the attitude, I'm hoping. Plus, spring really is in just only about 2 weeks. We got stuck in Kalispell MT last Friday due to blowing snow and cold. Decided to go to Home Depot and get flower seeds!
I am really excited to plant all kinds of stuff in our gardens including the rainbow in flowers! And we are going to try a lot of different experimental ways of growing Sheep sorrel. I pried a big bag of organic potting soil out of a snowdrift in the outdoor garden center - they were on sale and just outside the automatic door which still opened.. 🙂 Damn shopping cart kept getting stuck in the snow and a big wind was blowing and it was dark out and well below 0...
The month of March has been record wintry weather for this time of the year even in Montana. It is way more like January than this last January was! This is very strange, actually. Anybody else having a record-setting March? Sheep sorrel isn't one bit scared of snow but is sure not going to sprout anywhere but inside for now in these parts LOL...happy spring seed starting everyone!
We normally ship orders within one business day, in order to get your Essiac herbs to you as quickly as possible!
All US orders are shipped by USPS Priority mail.
As of November 30, 2015:
$6 - orders totaling $40 or less.
$8 - orders totaling $41-$98.99.
FREE SHIPPING ON US ORDERS totaling $99 OR MORE!
CANADIAN ORDERS
As of November 30, 2015: Canadian orders have two options now!
Option 1 - $13 - USPS First Class International - orders totaling $50USD and less
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Option 2 - $18 - USPS Priority International (still $2 below our cost, offered as a thank you to Canada for being the home of Essiac and Rene Caisse!) This option comes with tracking and insurance. If your order weighs more than 4 pounds, however, it will have to be shipped First Class International.
ALL OTHER INTERNATIONAL ORDERS
$26 - Orders totaling $100 or less - via USPS Priority mail.
$36 - Orders totaling from $101-200 via First Class International.
There are no guarantees of delivery time for international orders due to variable factors such as customs delays. Minimal tracking is available for the parcels, with info on their routing within US borders, and delivery confirmation at the other end and little in between
ONLINE ORDERS
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If you would prefer to phone in your order, we welcome your call! Call Debbie at (406) 883-0110, Monday through Friday (Mountain time zone). We try to answer all calls within 24 hours. We can process your credit card payment by phone, or can take your order and you can send payment via 'snail mail.'
MAIL-IN ORDERS
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Happy new year! Here in Polson MT we don’t get a lot of sun in the winter due to the ‘lake effect’ so I have been refreshing myself on Vitamin D3 supplementation. I have gleaned the following info from Mercola.com. For much more info and recommendations I recommend the two articles I am summarizing below.
Sunscreen (moisturizer with an SPF value), while blocking the UVA rays, which can tan - or burn - your skin, also keeps out UVB rays, which bring D3 to you, which is good for a lot of things. It is recommended therefore to allow your skin (not counting your face, which should be protected from exposure by a cap or sunscreen) to be exposed without sunscreen initially Read More →
The road was new to me, as roads always are going back. ~Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country Road of Pointed Firs, 1896
What a week it has been. We've gone back to the source..me for the first time, but for Mali Klein, the road going back did look familiar.. Mali, over the course of nearly two decades' worth of writing and researching the history of Rene Caisse and Essiac, has witnessed Rene's legacy in this place pass from its youth into the 21st century. Mali's writing partner Sheila Snow lived her whole life here. Sheila worked with Rene Caisse directly during the last years of her life. She wrote one of the first Essiac books, The Essence of Essiac, as well as an article for the Canadian Homemaker magazine entitled "Could Essiac Halt Cancer?" which played a major role in putting Bracebridge on the map in the 1970s. Sixteen years ago she showed Mali the sites to see for the first time, just as Mali shows me today. Read More →
