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GROWING SHEEP SORREL ROOTS AND LEAF
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ESSIAC CIRCLE OF FRIENDS
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SHEEP SORREL — THE KEY HERB IN ESSIAC TEA
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All Parts of the Sheep Sorrel Herb Are Used in Essiac Tea:
Roots, Leaves, Stems, Flowers & Seeds
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“The herb that will destroy a cancer is the dog-eared sheep sorrel, sometimes called sourgrass. The entire plant must be used.” [1]
“Of the four herbs in the recipe, the quality of the Sheep Sorrel [Rumex acetosella] seems to be the deciding factor as to the overall effectiveness of the Essiac formula and it was the one herb that Rene isolated during her early years of research as having a direct effect on cancerous tumors.” [2]
“Throughout the centuries, the sorrels have appeared in historical archives as a folk remedy for cancer.” [3]
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We have been growing Sheep Sorrel for over 21 years and we have continually refined our farming/gardening methods. We prefer the word “gardening” because organically-grown Sheep Sorrel cannot be properly weeded, harvested, dried and processed by tractors and farm implements. It must be hand weeded, hand harvested, transplanted by hand, etc, in order to maintain the highest quality.
To create our SPECIAL BLEND ESSIAC TEA HERBS we harvest Sheep Sorrel at different times of the year and at different stages of growth so as to create a special blend of leaf, flowers, seeds and roots.
The photos below show us hand-weeding and hand-harvesting our Sheep Sorrel Leaf & Roots.
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We grow our Essiac herbs on the oldest certified organic farm in North Idaho. The soil here is very rich in minerals due to glacial activity during the ice age when the area was covered by Glacial Lake Missoula, which was as much as 2000 feet deep and stretched all the way to Missoula, Montana. The surrounding mineral-rich mountains in the Lake Missoula were eroded by icebergs and glacier movement thus creating this mineral-rich soil.
The soil is also enriched by the volcanic ash that has blown in from the Cascade Mountain Range, as occurred from Mt. Saint Helens in more recent times.
Sheep Sorrel is a mineral-loving plant. It can even grow in sand and gravel as long as it receives enough water so it survives by absorbing minerals directly, even without soil. Therefore, the high mineral content in Sheep Sorrel contributes to its health-giving qualities.
Dr. Gabriel Cousens, raw food advocate and author of Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine, recommends mineral-rich Sheep Sorrel as it contains the “super-colloid minerals iridium, rhodium and gold”. [4]
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Photos below (left to right): Glacial Lake Missoula; Northwest Glacial Map; Multi-Colored Pebbles Revealing Many Minerals in Our Area; Our Incredible Sheep Sorrel Flowering in Our Field
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For over a decade we have added certified organic humic shale and Icelandic kelp as a soil amendment in addition to all the minerals already present in our soil. Humic shale contains about 75 different plant-based, colloidal minerals. The certified organic kelp that we add is harvested from the pristine, mineral rich fjords of Iceland. This adds iodine and other sea-based minerals that may not be present in sufficient quantities in land-based farming.
We call the Essiac herbs that we grow “Better Than Organic” because they greatly exceed the government-dictated organic standards.
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We have watered our sheep sorrel with natural, mineral-rich water from a deep well that does not contain any additives such as chlorine or fluoride or other toxic substances. It doesn’t get any better than this.
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We are the Essiac Circle of Friends and we do it right!
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Click here to learn how we process, powder, package and store our highest quality, certified organic SPECIAL BLEND ESSIAC TEA HERBS .
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1. [Source: Letter from Rene M. Caisse to Dr. Chester Stock of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, April 4, 1974, in the Sheila Snow Fraser Essiac Archive Collection and ESSIAC, THE SECRETS OF RENE CAISSE’S HERBAL PHARMACY, p. 28]
2. ESSIAC ESSENTIALS: The Remarkable Herbal Cancer Fighter; 1999; Sheila Snow; p. 22
3. THE ESSENCE OF ESSIAC: 1993; Sheila Snow; p. 57
4. RAINBOW GREEN LIVE-FOOD CUISINE; 2003; Dr. Gabriel Cousens; p. 28
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* BUYER BEWARE! Most Essiac companies and herb suppliers are now obtaining Sheep Sorrel leaf from Bulgaria and Croatia and it is dead plant material and not even green! Therefore, most of the Essiac sold in the US now has little medicinal value for cancer patients. We are concerned that this may eventually give quality Essiac Tea an undeserved reputation for being ineffective against cancer. This may also give false hope for cancer patients.
This is why we place so much attention on how we grow our certified organic herbs and the extra effort and care we place on quality, even though our Essiac Tea Herbs cost significantly more than other Essiac tea providers. As the old adage goes: “You get what you pay for.” *
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We do not sell nor are we associated with the trademarked (TM) or registered (R) “ESSIAC” products that are sold by other companies in Canada and the US. We only sell the herbs so that people can make Rene Caisse’s tea in their own homes. Rene Caisse never registered, patented or trademarked “Essiac” which was simply her last name spelled backwards and was originally derived from a traditional native American herbal remedy for cancer. The word “Essiac” was in common usage in the 1930s, decades before anyone tried to corner the market by “registering” or “trademarking” the word “Essiac”. Furthermore, we only use the “Essiac” formula which Rene Caisse’s best friend, Mary McPherson, officially entered into the public domain in a sworn affidavit in 1994 in Bracebridge, Ontario. This formula uses Turkey rhubarb root which is much more pleasant tasting than the Indian rhubarb products on the market (which is why Rene Caisse switched to Turkey rhubarb in her final Essiac tea formula). The HealthFreedom.info website has posted Mary McPherson’s “Essiac” formula affidavit here. This is the formula we use.
Twenty years ago HealthFreedom.info was the first website to obtain and publish on the internet a certified copy of Mary McPherson’s Essiac formula affidavit from the Town of Bracebridge, Ontario, thus settling the controversy over what Rene Caisse’s true Essiac Tea formula was.
We include sheep sorrel roots in all our Essiac Tea products at precise percentages. The percentages refer to the ratio of sheep sorrel root to the total sheep sorrel content in the formula.
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We include sheep sorrel roots in all our Essiac Tea products at precise percentages. The percentages refer to the ratio of sheep sorrel root to the total sheep sorrel content in the formula.
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The information on this website is for educational and historical purposes and not to be construed as medical advice. Everyone’s body is different so there is no one-size-fits-all for health issues. It should be noted that medical doctors are not usually taught about such subjects as herbal medicine, nutritional supplements, non-pharmceutical approaches to health, etc. Therefore, choosing an appropriate health professional is a human right and that is up to the individual seeking health improvement.
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