Growing Your Own Essiac Tea Ingredients

[Arrowwind]

I came across this today and thought I'd post it. Essiac does work for some cancer cases and other diseases. This video tells you how to grow and harvest one of the ingredients called Sheep Sorrel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBcdMVDp8vQ=related

They recommend that you go to www.essiacUS.com (http://www.essiacUS.com) to get the DVD that tells more on growing these plants.

You can purchase the seeds here and this site I am finding is a great place to purchase unusual seed and medicinal seeds. I purchased some Blood Root cuttings last week. I think I will start the Essiac herbs in the spring.

http://www.horizonherbs.com/search.asp?mode=results
as well as the other ingredient for essiac, burdock root seeds:
http://www.horizonherbs.com/product.asp?specific=2575


Slippery Elm:
http://www.horizonherbs.com/product.asp?specific=727

and Turkey Rhubarb:
http://www.horizonherbs.com/product.asp?specific=684

and here is what I think will be a nice beginners video on herbology. I haven't watched it all yet but will later today... I like the song anyway ;)

Ok I watched the movie. Good photos of herbs as they are in the field. Good info on herbal preparations for beginners. She clarified that white yarrow is preferred over colored which was of interest to me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=-ZfRHr-cjd4=1

[blufire]

I have used Essiac Tea for many years and is my preferred cure for many cancers . . . I have personally used it for stage three cervical cancer and worked with several clients with breast, prostate, lymph and liver cancers.

The most difficult ingredient is slippery elm. Because of the elm blight that came through a few years back across the U.S. the preferred elm species has become nearly extinct, as well as, if you are fortunate enough to find a mature tree you have to be extremely carefully how and when you harvest the bark.

Arrowwind you mentioned you bought some Blood Root cuttings . . . are you making black salve by any chance?

To make sure it is clear, the four original ingredients in Essiac Tea are burdock root, slippery elm, turkey rhubarb and sheep’s sorrel. Other herbs can be added when treating specific cancers or ailments. Three ingredients I most often add are cat’s claw, water cress and ginseng

I love the folks at Horizon Herbs and have purchased their products for many years.

[Arrowwind]

Arrowwind you mentioned you bought some Blood Root cuttings . . . are you making black salve by any chance?

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bluefire, are you growing medicinals?

I am working on planting plants that are critical for survival. Having worked for the last three years on food plants, I am starting to consider medicinals. I am not making any black salve, but I do keep a jar of Cantons' in storage. I want my land to be able to provide a variety of medicinals for what ever may come up. Although I live in a high desert I found a small micro-environment on the north side of a bushy tree, heavily mulched with years and years of droppings, where I think the blood root will grow.

Maybe we could make a list of essential herbs to grow for medicinal use.
Next year Ill work on the Essiac plants and include burdock. Dont have much yet but so far I have

Comfrey
mullein
echinacea
spearmint
peppermint
blood root
garlic
fennel
parsley
cilantro
yarrow


water cress is locally available, thistle in several varieties and so is burdock root if I look around but I'd like to have it more easily accessible as it is very hard to dig up, so I'm thinking of planting it in very loose mulched soil in my garden.

Why would you add water cress to essiac? what are the medicinal properties?

Can slippery elm store long term? seems like it might. Im excited to see that it grows to -40 degrees, my kind of neighborhood so I will try that too. Ive never grown a tree from seed before.