Dr. Charles Brusch, Elaine Alexander and Rene Caisse's Essiac Tea

Did Dr. Charles Brusch know the Essiac formula & recipe?

Was Dr. Brusch's and Elaine Alexander's 8-herb formula the same as Rene Caisse's Essiac tea?

These are very important questions to ask because they have caused--and continue to cause--a great deal of conflict, confusion and concern for a lot of people. I have had many conversations with Dr. Gary Glum who interviewed Dr. Charles Brusch regarding his involvement with Rene Caisse. Dr. Glum assured me that Dr. Brusch did not know Rene Caisse's formula and recipe for Essiac tea. He further indicated that he believed that Dr. Brusch's signature was forged on documents in Elaine Alexander's apparent attempt to market their own version of Essiac tea called "Flor-Essence" [R], which contained eight herbs. Dr. Brusch's wife has confirmed this unfortunate situation (see below).

Sheila Snow knew Dr. Brusch as well and thoroughly researched this question. In short Sheila Snow & Mali Klein stated in THE SECRETS OF RENE CAISSE'S HERBAL PHARMACY (p. 13): "Considering Sheila's 16 years' association with Dr Brusch and his wife, and examining the evidence of the letters exchanged between them and with Mary McPherson, we must conclude that we do not believe that Rene ever gave Dr Brusch the Essiac formula. Therefore we must question any subsequent claims by people associated with Dr Brusch as having access to the original Essiac formula."

Furthermore, Sheila Snow received a handwritten note from Dr. Brusch's wife, Jane, dated 20 January 1993, which stated: "Thanks for your note and information. I am infuriated over all the different things I am hearing. I can't believe that so many people are using Charlie's name and the things they are coming up with -- old signatures etc -- requests for peoples' records and histories -- all lies. I turn all these over to our lawyer -- I am dumbfounded. Hope your are fine, Love, Jane." Read pages 9 through 13 in THE SECRETS OF RENE CAISSE'S HERBAL PHARMACY for more revealing information about Dr. Brusch concerning this question.

Sheila Snow and Mali Klein further state in THE SECRETS OF RENE CAISSE'S HERBAL PHARMACY that: "Dr Brusch apparently became partners with Elaine Alexander in 1988 [two years after Dr. Gary Glum purchased the Essiac formula from one of Rene's former patients], and was claimed to have worked exclusively with Rene for 20 years in perfecting the Essiac herbal formula. To reinforce this claim, THE ESSIAC REPORT by Richard Thomas has reproduced a legal document signed by Dr Brusch on page 125. Paragraph 7 exactly quotes Dr Benjamin Leslie Guyatt's public statement of 1940 concerning Essiac, wrongly attributing the words to Dr Brusch over fifty years later....He [Dr Brusch] died on 21 October 1993 aged 85. Elaine Alexander died on 30 April 1996. The company they founded was still publishing leaflets as late as March 2000 describing Elaine as 'Today's Custodian of...' and discussing her in the present tense, which has proved very confusing to cancer patients prepared to put their faith in their product. There is no evidence to prove that Dr Brusch worked with Rene for 20 years." [THE ESSIAC REPORT may have also been the source of the rumor that Essiac was an Ojibway remedy.]

Rene Caisse did help Dr. Brusch with experiments on mice at the Brusch Medical Center in Boston for a "brief period" in 1959 but did not contact her again until 1976. [THE SECRETS OF RENE CAISSE'S HERBAL PHARMACY, p. 12] The issue of whether or not Dr. Brusch obtained the Essiac formula from Rene Caisse was finally settled when Rene Caisse told Sheila Snow: "I didn't give it [the Essiac formula] to Doctor Brusch and I'm not giving it to anyone else." [THE ESSIAC BOOK, p. 74]

In THE SECRETS OF RENE CAISSE'S HERBAL PHARMACY the authors thoroughly cover what other herbs Rene Caisse used in her "pharmacy". This research reveals that Rene Caisse did not use "blessed thistle" or "kelp", two of the herbs included in the "Flor-Essence"[R] formula and other 8-herb formulas on the internet. However, Dr. Brusch was a big fan of kelp and wrote to Mary McPherson in 1987 that he was working on "Herb Formula 1 and 5". He further stated: "It is mostly 'our own', plus one or two herbs which do not interfere in any way with our formula, but in fact enhance it. How happy Rene would be." This letter was written in the year after Dr. Glum had purchased the Essiac formula and had revealed that fact to Mary McPherson. Mary had then been released (as it were) from her promise to Rene to take the formula to her grave. Four of the herbs in "Flor-Essence" [R] are identical to the four-herb Essiac formula that Dr. Gary Glum made public with the release of his video tape and book CALLING OF AN ANGEL in 1988. Therefore, the evidence indicates that Dr. Brusch obtained the four-herb formula only because Dr. Glum publicly released it. Dr. Glum told me that Elaine Alexander got the four-herb formula from him. Also, Dr. Glum interviewed Dr. Brusch in 1987, several years before he and Elaine Alexander began manufacturing their own eight-herb formula.

There is a video which was made about Essiac and it shows Dr. Charles Brusch talking about Essiac. In this video interview Dr. Brusch referred to Essiac tea as "a drug or an herb". This video reveals that Dr. Brusch did not even know for sure what Essiac was. He didn't even know that it was a combination of herbs because he uses the singular word "herb" two times in this video. However, it is possible that Rene was supplying him only with sheep sorrel solution (i.e., one herb) as she did with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute. This video entitled "Rene Caisse. Essiac: Cancer Cure?" can be viewed on YouTube.com. Here is a link to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0WcW7skHEE&feature=related. The Rene Caisse Story video also shows what color her Essiac tea should be.

It appears that Dr. Brusch was acting with good intentions when he altered Rene Caisse's formula (which was not obtained from Rene Caisse but from Dr. Gary Glum). However, it is unethical to market Dr. Brusch's tea as "Essiac tea" because it was not created by Rene Caisse. However, this does not mean that these eight herbs are not good for one's health. Indeed, one of the main purposes of this website is to reveal that herbs are a safe alternative to poisonous pharmaceutical drugs. We all have the natural right to creatively combine herbs to make our own healing teas, etc. However, few people know about the secret ingredient in Essiac tea that was discovered by Sheila Snow.

It should also be noted that Dr. Glum purchased the Essiac tea formula (for $120,000) from one of Rene's former patients and then gave the formula (free of charge) to anyone who asked him for it. If Dr. Glum had not purchased and had not publicly released the formula, Essiac would have disappeared forever into oblivion and Elaine Alexander and Dr. Brusch would never have found out what Rene Caisse's four-herb Essiac tea formula was. Dr. Glum was subsequently (and unlawfully) attacked by the federal government for his generosity. Unfortunately, Big Pharma controls the federal government through corporate connections and lobbying and Dr. Glum ended up demonstrating that the United States of America has become a fascist (corporate) nation. I (and many others) have also demonstrated that the United States government no longer follows its own Bill of Rights, Constitution or "Declaration of Independence". CLICK HERE to read about Dr. Glum's experience.

ESSIAC QUESTIONS? The four books by Sheila Snow and Mali Klein, THE ESSENCE OF ESSIAC, ESSIAC ESSENTIALS, THE SECRETS OF RENE CAISSE'S HERBAL PHARMACY and THE ESSIAC BOOK are necessary to understand how to use Essiac to treat cancer. These four books are the most researched and documented books available that reveal the secrets of how Rene Caisse successfully treated so many cancer patients. These books cut through most of the disinformation on the internet about Essiac tea. Essiac became so popular that 55,000 petitions were gathered to keep her cancer clinic open. However, the medical establishment and government conspired to shut her down. Rene Caisse died in 1978 but her spirit lives on in those people whose lives have been changed by this simple herbal tea. Sheila Snow's and Mali Klein's books are usually available through EssiacUS.com.

Yours in Health Freedom,

Lanny Messinger

[Lanny Messinger was the original webmaster for www.HealthFreedom.info and is now retired.]

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