I can say that, from Ralph Moss’ books that the herbal ingredients in
Essiac (and the Hoxsey remedy, and the various escharotics, and other
herbs) have known anti-cancer properties. What the mechanism is I don’t
know, but it’s much more than boosting the immune system.

Because people I respect, such as Dr. Banting who used it on diabetes
and Dr. Glum, who used it on AIDS (and there were dozens of other
doctors too), had direct experience with it, I kind of trust their
judgement even if the precise mechanism is unknown.

Essiac underwent testing, and passed, while it was being used on tens
of thousands and the numbers cured of terminal cancer obviously make it
more than placebo. After all, 50,000 signatures, including those of

many doctors were submitted when it was almost written into law in
Canada.

That would be a good question though, to ask of the people who
manufacture Essiac. I anticipate that they might have kept records over
the decades, seeing as how they are the ‘official’ Essiac source. I
neither manufacture or sell it.

Well, you know the story about social change. It takes perhaps a couple
of generations. In this case the old unchanging ones die off and the
younger ones know a new truth from the outset. I write my newspaper
columns to hope to precipitate that change.

I know that a vitamin can act as a drug, but a drug can never act as a
vitamin; in other words, unless the doctor first conclusively rules out
basic toxin, bowel, and nutritional issues as causes, why the heck is
he prescribing drugs to cover symptoms? If he doesn’t learn the
material we had better do it ourselves. But then we wouldn’t need him
for much, would we?

Put another way, "If the doctors of today do not become the
nutritionists of tomorrow, then the nutritionists of today will become
the doctors of tomorrow."

(Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research)