FLOR*ESSENCE AND ESSIAC

FLOR*ESSENCE AND ESSIAC JULY 2007

Flor*Essence is similar but not identical to Essiac. Following is a little of the history of this remarkable tea, in point form so the differences between these two products are more clearly understood:

== In 1922, Rene Caisse was not given a formula or a recipe. She was given the names of EIGHT different herbs, which she wrote down.

== In 1924, she cured her aunt using these EIGHT herbs which she most likely went out and gathered herself, after finding out what they looked like. What she couldnt find, she ordered from a herbal wholesale house.

== Over the next few years she and the doctors she worked with, tried to discover which of the herbs was most effective in reducing the size of the growths. They did this by injecting an extract of each of the herbs individually. Over time she developed a formula whereby one of the herbs was given by INJECTION to reduce the size of the growth, and three others were given orally to get the cleansing benefits needed. THIS is the formula she called Essiac, and is the basis for the four herb formula available today under that name.

== This was the formula she used up until she was forced to close her clinic in 1942. It is also the formula she brought to Dr Brusch's clinic in 1958 when they became partners. However, he knew that the Indians had not done anything by injection, and also knew that Rene had started with eight herbs.

== During their partnership, they returned as close as they could to the original eight herbs, and developed the formula so that it could be taken as a herbal tea, just as the Indians had used it.

== In 1978, when Rene passed on a formula to the Resperin Corp. of Ontario, she gave them the one with the four main herbs in it, as the eight herb one had been developed in partnership with Dr. Brusch and he retained the rights to it.

== In 1988 Dr. Brusch signed over the rights to the eight herb formula to Elaine Alexander. She in turn signed a contract with Flora in 1992 for the world-wide manufacturing and distribution rights, and that was when the name "Flor*Essence was given to the eight herb formula.

== This means that there are two, so-to-speak, "legal" formulas on the marketplace:

"Essiac" as manufactured only by Resperin or Essiac International; and "Flor*Essence" as manufactured only by Flora.

There are many others, but most of them are copies of a version of another four herb formula, made public several years ago.

It is important, when talking about the products, to make the distinction of name.

If you call it Essiac, but mean Flor*Essence it can be confusing, as there is a product on the marketplace called Essiac.