Dear Friends,
Some years ago I read a book called, “When Healing Becomes a Crime” by Kenny Ausubel. It is the true story of Harry Hoxsey, who used an herbal recipe passed down from his great-grandfather to cure cancer in America from the 1920s to the 1960s. This book documented and exposed the politics of the medical establishment that prevents promising alternative cancer therapies from being implemented in the United States. Harry Hoxsey was continually harassed, arrested, (157 times in 16 months) labeled a Charlatan and had his clinics shut down by the AMA until he was eventually run out of the country. Although Harry Hoxsey is dead now, one of his clinics is still in existence in Mexico. It is called The Bio-Medical Center (Hoxsey Clinic). Doctors and oncologists will treat you with herbs there for a small fraction of what allopathic medicine charges for cancer therapy.
Although cancer is not my specialty, an herbalist, I deal more in autoimmune diseases and fibromyalgia, but both my parents died of cancer and I found the alternative therapies quite compelling. As I studied various holistic cancer treatments there seemed to be that same thread of suppression and bigotry toward the holistic cure of cancer woven through every narrative. Doctors, nurses and practitioners who successfully employed these therapies were condemned, publically discredited and threatened with arrest and imprisonment. It seems from my research into this phenomenon, the level of success they had in treating cancer patients was directly correlated to the level of persecution they suffered from the medical institution. These dedicated individuals were labeled “snake oil salesman” and “quacks” no matter how many successful case histories they presented. Their patient’s testimonies fell on the deaf ears of “established medicine”.
Rene Caisse was a Canadian nurse who discovered Essiac tea. While treating an elderly patient she noticed a scar on her breast and inquired about it. She was told by her patient that she’d had breast cancer some 30 years ago and was cured by an ancient Ojibway Indian herbal formula. Rene Cassie discovered that this formula worked on all forms of cancer. She spent her life treating and curing cancer patients under the constant threat of arrest and imprisonment and closure of her clinic. In 1938, 55,000 supporters petitioned the Ontario government in attempt to pass a law to let Rene treat cancer patients without fear of arrest. This bill failed by only three votes. This was in no small part due to the collusion between the Canadian Medical Association and the newly formed Cancer Commission.
Suppressed Cancer Therapies
(you should know about)
By Lori Jacobs
Herbalist
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