Dr. Gary L. Glum, until two years ago, was a chiropractor with offices in Los Angeles. His clients included well-known professional athletic teams and Olympic teams.
In 1988 Dr. Glum published Calling of an Angel, the story of Rene Caisse and Essiac.
Two years ago he closed his practice and now devoted his time to investigative writing.
Introduction
Rene Caisse was a nurse living in Canada who for a period of almost sixty years treated hundreds of people with an herbal remedy she called Essiac. She discovered this remedy through a patient in the hospital where she worked who had been cured of cancer. The patient had used an herbal remedy given her by an Ojibway herbalist.
Rene left the hospital in 1922 at age 33, and went to Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada where she began administering Essiac to all who came to her. The majority of those whom she treated came on referral with letters from their physicians certifying they had incurable or terminal form of cancer and that they had been given up by the medical profession as untreatable.
Rene began gathering the plants and preparing the herbal remedy herself in her own kitchen, in a building lent her for her patients. She administered Essiac both orally and by injection. In cases where there was severe damage to life support organs, her patients died-but they lived far longer than the medical profession had predicted, and, more significantly, they lived free of pain. Still others, listed as hopeless and terminal, but without severe damage to life support organs, were cured and lived 35-45 years (many are still living).
So startling was the effectiveness of this simple herbal remedy, it could not be ignored, and the Canadian Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Parliament became involved. Friend, former patients, and grateful families petitioned Canadian officialdom for Rene Caisse's right to administer the remedy to anyone who asked for it without the threat of interference from authorities.
Fifty-five thousand signatures were collected on the petition. In 1938, Essiac came within three votes of being legalized by the Ontario government as a remedy for terminal cancer patients.
The story of Rene Caisse, her life, her work, and the effectiveness of the remedy she named Essiac, is
told in a book Sun Bear received, Calling of an Angel, by Dr. Gary L. Glum of Los Angeles.
Dr.Glum, said, "You're opening a Pandora's box."
In the story of Pandora most well-known today, she is sent by the Gods to curse humanity for offending them. Pandore is given a "box" or container with instructions not to open it, which the Gods know she will disobey. When Pandora does open the box, famine, war, plague, disease, pestilence - all the ills of humankind are released. Then at the last comes hope, as antidote to despair.
According to Barbara Walker's Encyclopedia, Pandora-whose name means "all giving"-was originally an image for Mother Earth. She had, not a box, but a honey vase like the Cornucopia from which flowed all life and creativity, as well as death and rebirth - Earth's gifts to her children. Because we are natural beings in natural world, it seems appropriate that a simple remedy composed of four common herbs, gifts of Earth, would suggest so much promise for us today.
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