One out of six is afflicted with arthritis. There are over 100 types of arthritis but the two most common are Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid arthritis.
Osteoarthritis is the most common and this version causes the deterioration of bones and cartilage that make up the joints.
Rheumatoid arthritis is classified as an inflammatory disease that affects the lining in the joints, especially in the hands and feet.
Essiac has been shown to be effective with people suffering from Rheumatoid arthritis since bacteria that can invade the synovial fluid (the fluid surrounding the joints) can be a source for this kind of arthritis.
In many cases, the pain you feel in your hands, knees, shoulders, etc. can be microscopic particles of grit that infiltrate the synovial fluid causing inflammation in the various joints as you move your limbs.
The active all natural ingredients of our eight herb Essiac act to identify these microscopic bits of grits and flush them naturally from your system, providing relief for many of you suffering from Rheumatoid arthritis.
It has been about two years since we started Herbal Balance For Life and I had been going to a Orthopedic doctor about every six months for cortisone shots in both knees. The x rays showed I needed a knee replacement in one leg in about 2 years and a replacement in the other knee in about 8 years. I guess the doctors can determine based on the arthritic deterioration of each knee, just about when you will be in so much pain you will be begging for a new knee.
I received a call about six months ago from my Orthopedic Surgeon wondering why he had not seen me in the last year and a half and my reply was that since I started taking Essiac soft gels (2 in the A.M. and 2 in the P.M.) my knees have stopped hurting and I have not needed a cortisone shot in the past year and a half. As the doctor said, "If you are not hurting and you can still walk without any pain, you don't need to see me." What can I say, a testimonial from the President of the company!
Friday, February 18, 2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
How can a soft gel equal two ounces of Essiac?
Our biggest challenge was how to convert this age old formula from brewing a tea into a 21st century method of simply taking a pill and obtain the same results.
As many of you may know, pharmaceutical contractors do this every single day and it is really quite a simple math formula to determine the conversion rate from liquid to solid. It goes something like this:
1 ounce of raw Essiac powder diluted into 32 ounces of water equals 28.349 grams of solid powder divided by 32 ounces of liquid water. This equals .886 milligrams of solid powder. This simply means if you took .886 milligrams of the Essiac powder, by itself, and injested it (hard to do without water) however if you managed to ge it down, it would be equal to one ounce of tea.
Now the challenge really begins because the milligram capacity of a soft gel (the amount of stuff you can fit inside the soft gel) is .583 mg. So, how do we fit .886 mg of Essiac powder inside a soft gel that only holds .583 mg?
The answer is extracts. Through testing and research we determined that we could use the powder form of 5 of the herbs needed for the 8 herb formula. We then take the remaining 3 herbs and convert them to an extract form, such as a 4-1 ratio to the powder. As you all know, an extract is simply a condensed form of a product, like frozen orange juice. When you add the water back to the frozen orange juice, it becomes whole again.
Mechanically the production works like this:
Essiac is finally 21st century!
As many of you may know, pharmaceutical contractors do this every single day and it is really quite a simple math formula to determine the conversion rate from liquid to solid. It goes something like this:
1 ounce of raw Essiac powder diluted into 32 ounces of water equals 28.349 grams of solid powder divided by 32 ounces of liquid water. This equals .886 milligrams of solid powder. This simply means if you took .886 milligrams of the Essiac powder, by itself, and injested it (hard to do without water) however if you managed to ge it down, it would be equal to one ounce of tea.
Now the challenge really begins because the milligram capacity of a soft gel (the amount of stuff you can fit inside the soft gel) is .583 mg. So, how do we fit .886 mg of Essiac powder inside a soft gel that only holds .583 mg?
The answer is extracts. Through testing and research we determined that we could use the powder form of 5 of the herbs needed for the 8 herb formula. We then take the remaining 3 herbs and convert them to an extract form, such as a 4-1 ratio to the powder. As you all know, an extract is simply a condensed form of a product, like frozen orange juice. When you add the water back to the frozen orange juice, it becomes whole again.
Mechanically the production works like this:
- Our herbs are orderded from our various suppliers of organic herb growers. The growers send us a sample from their on hand inventory for testing.
- Since we manufacture our product to FDA standards of cGMP regulations (compliant to good manufacturing practices) we are required to test every herb for microbiological limits, such as E. Coli, Salmonella and also for heavy metal limits such as lead, mercury, cadmium, et
- After receipt of the herb inventory needed for production, we are required by cGMP regulations to test the actual inventory a second time and record that. There is always the possibility that the original test samples could be different than the actual inventory shipped.
- Upon approval of the herbs they are then compounded. The compounding process is a series of mixing the 5 herbs and the 3 extracts to the exact formula and adding inactive ingredients such as deionized water, sunflower lecithin which becomes a loose paste and it is forced through various filters, each filtering system finer than the next. This process eventually creates a fine grit that can be mechanically forced through insertion tubes. The grit of this herb paste needs to be a fine as possible as to not pierce the skin of the soft gel, causing it to leak.
- The production process is fully automated and the soft gel machine begins to form the soft gels into a mold, which is heated. The actual soft gel is simply made of inactive ingredients such as Rice Bran Oil, Gelatin, Glycerin, Beeswax, which disloves in the stomach in about 12 to 20 minutes. As the machine fills the mold to create the soft gel, the insertion tube measures out the amount of paste needed to fill the soft gel and inserts it into a cavity of the soft gel.
- After the production, the soft gels are left on drying racks on top of absorbtion paper for up to a week. The paper absorbs any "leakers" and these are removed during the sorting process. While the soft gels are being dried, we are required once more to test the soft gels to be certain that during the manufacturing process, there was no contamination to the product.
- This soft gel, now becomes a 398 mg product once the filling and herbs are added and it is bottled ready for human consumption.
Essiac is finally 21st century!
Saturday, February 12, 2011
What is the miracle of Essiac?
What is the miracle of Essiac?
Essiac 8 refers to the Eight Herbs that make up this herbal formula, also known as Eight Herb Essiac.
This original formula that was created by the Ojibwa Indians a few hundred years ago, was made up of 4 herbs. As this remedy became known in the United States in the early 1920's, efforts were made by the Nurse that was given this formula, to improve its effectiveness & potency.
The results of eight years of laboratory testing yielded an upgraded version of Essiac, using the original four herbs but by adding four new "potentiators" herbs. These "potentiators" are herbs that extend, improve, augment and render a more potent and effective results to the original formula.
The phrase "the miracle of Essiac" essentially comes from the men and women who have taken this product and reversed their diseases, from diabetes to cancer. When you think of people who have followed the protocol perscribed by their doctors, and in the case of cancer, that protocol includes surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, and have not had a successful conclusion, they start "looking for a miracle" and for those that have used Essiac 8 with success, start calling it a Miracle.
We would like to interject at this point, that we really know it is not a miracle, it is a matter of correcting your body's condition since we were all created with a preprogrammed immune system designed to automatically fight off illness and disease from within.
To explain further, in today's society, we eat more toxins than we can imagine. Starting with food additives, pesticides, herbicides and don't forget all the pollutants from all the dirty air we inhale. All of these toxins and pathogens coat our intestines and organs with plaque. For our immune system to work effectively, we must have our organs working properly. You can imagine that these organs, which are the body's natural filters, are clogged and robbing us of the nutrients from the food we eat, so it is almost impossible to keep healthy if your engine is simply not working right and because you are not feeding it right!
For you to stay healthy and allow your immune system to work for you, you need to understand about your pH balance. Your body needs to be in an alkaline state to become and stay healthy, so how do I get there? Well, chances are your body is in an acidic state and when you are acidic, cells such as cancer grow and multiply by feeding on the sugar in your cells. Cancer cells thrive in an acid cell yet cancer cannot live in an alkaline cell, therein lies the message: Essiac 8 will identify toxins, pathogens, antigens and antibodies that coat our organs and intestines that can overwhelm our immune system. Essiac 8 will eliminate these toxins and pathogens and return your body and cells to an alkaline state. Ill ness and disease cannot survive in an alkaline state and that is because your immune system is working to protect you.
So once again, the Miracle of Essiac 8 recommends to use this natural herbal formula on a regular basis to correct your body's condition of being acidic by detoxifiying your body, returning it to an alkaline state and let your immune system do its job, fully armed to protect you from illness & disease.
You will have a long, healthy and pain free life if you start on an Essiac 8 regime today.
For more information on how to get a free sample of Essiac 8 please go to this link: freeessiac.com
Essiac 8 refers to the Eight Herbs that make up this herbal formula, also known as Eight Herb Essiac.
This original formula that was created by the Ojibwa Indians a few hundred years ago, was made up of 4 herbs. As this remedy became known in the United States in the early 1920's, efforts were made by the Nurse that was given this formula, to improve its effectiveness & potency.
The results of eight years of laboratory testing yielded an upgraded version of Essiac, using the original four herbs but by adding four new "potentiators" herbs. These "potentiators" are herbs that extend, improve, augment and render a more potent and effective results to the original formula.
The phrase "the miracle of Essiac" essentially comes from the men and women who have taken this product and reversed their diseases, from diabetes to cancer. When you think of people who have followed the protocol perscribed by their doctors, and in the case of cancer, that protocol includes surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, and have not had a successful conclusion, they start "looking for a miracle" and for those that have used Essiac 8 with success, start calling it a Miracle.
We would like to interject at this point, that we really know it is not a miracle, it is a matter of correcting your body's condition since we were all created with a preprogrammed immune system designed to automatically fight off illness and disease from within.
To explain further, in today's society, we eat more toxins than we can imagine. Starting with food additives, pesticides, herbicides and don't forget all the pollutants from all the dirty air we inhale. All of these toxins and pathogens coat our intestines and organs with plaque. For our immune system to work effectively, we must have our organs working properly. You can imagine that these organs, which are the body's natural filters, are clogged and robbing us of the nutrients from the food we eat, so it is almost impossible to keep healthy if your engine is simply not working right and because you are not feeding it right!
For you to stay healthy and allow your immune system to work for you, you need to understand about your pH balance. Your body needs to be in an alkaline state to become and stay healthy, so how do I get there? Well, chances are your body is in an acidic state and when you are acidic, cells such as cancer grow and multiply by feeding on the sugar in your cells. Cancer cells thrive in an acid cell yet cancer cannot live in an alkaline cell, therein lies the message: Essiac 8 will identify toxins, pathogens, antigens and antibodies that coat our organs and intestines that can overwhelm our immune system. Essiac 8 will eliminate these toxins and pathogens and return your body and cells to an alkaline state. Ill ness and disease cannot survive in an alkaline state and that is because your immune system is working to protect you.
So once again, the Miracle of Essiac 8 recommends to use this natural herbal formula on a regular basis to correct your body's condition of being acidic by detoxifiying your body, returning it to an alkaline state and let your immune system do its job, fully armed to protect you from illness & disease.
You will have a long, healthy and pain free life if you start on an Essiac 8 regime today.
For more information on how to get a free sample of Essiac 8 please go to this link: freeessiac.com
Friday, February 11, 2011
Cancer and Essiac
Why do we keep hearing that Essiac is a cure for cancer?
Essiac really doesn't cure cancer. The human body is pre-programmed to be healthy and living in a perfect world without toxins and pollutants, without additives in our food, without pesticides on our fruits and vegetables, and plenty of exercise, we could all live to be 150 years old.
The real world today is quite different, the food choices we make, the toxins and pollutants we ingest, the lack of excercise contribute to break down our body's ability to stay healthy.
The most common factors known to contribute to cancer is an altered pH balance, poor blood sugar management, stress and dehydration, oxygen deficiency, free radicals and poor nutrition.
The natural herbs of Essiac identify the toxins and pollutants in our system and flush them out. It removes years of plaque buildup on our organs, which are the body's filters. When filters get clogged up, they cannot work effectively. Essiac also works to change our pH balance from acidic to alkaline, which is an environment that cancer cells cannot survive in.
Therefore Essiac does not cure cancer but it rids the body of toxins and pollutants and detoxifies your body down to the cellular level of your being. This deep cleansing process stimulates and activates your immune system, which is made up of the interactions between the body's cells, molecules and fluids, to defend your body against illness and disease.
Remember, Essiac is only part of the fix, you need to eat raw fruits and veggies, stay away from sugar and reduce your intake of carbs, exercise, keep your weight in check and drink plenty of alkaline water, where the pH is 7.0 or higher.
Essiac is not only for the sick, it is for all of us. We should all be taking Essiac as a daily supplement to energize your system and return your body to optimal health.
Jim
Essiac really doesn't cure cancer. The human body is pre-programmed to be healthy and living in a perfect world without toxins and pollutants, without additives in our food, without pesticides on our fruits and vegetables, and plenty of exercise, we could all live to be 150 years old.
The real world today is quite different, the food choices we make, the toxins and pollutants we ingest, the lack of excercise contribute to break down our body's ability to stay healthy.
The most common factors known to contribute to cancer is an altered pH balance, poor blood sugar management, stress and dehydration, oxygen deficiency, free radicals and poor nutrition.
The natural herbs of Essiac identify the toxins and pollutants in our system and flush them out. It removes years of plaque buildup on our organs, which are the body's filters. When filters get clogged up, they cannot work effectively. Essiac also works to change our pH balance from acidic to alkaline, which is an environment that cancer cells cannot survive in.
Therefore Essiac does not cure cancer but it rids the body of toxins and pollutants and detoxifies your body down to the cellular level of your being. This deep cleansing process stimulates and activates your immune system, which is made up of the interactions between the body's cells, molecules and fluids, to defend your body against illness and disease.
Remember, Essiac is only part of the fix, you need to eat raw fruits and veggies, stay away from sugar and reduce your intake of carbs, exercise, keep your weight in check and drink plenty of alkaline water, where the pH is 7.0 or higher.
Essiac is not only for the sick, it is for all of us. We should all be taking Essiac as a daily supplement to energize your system and return your body to optimal health.
Jim
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Why is 8 herb Essiac better than 4 herb Essiac?
Because of Potentiators
The original four herb formula for Essiac consisted of Burdock Root, Slippery Elm bark, Rhubarb Root & Sheep Sorrel. These four herbs are the core to the Essiac formula, that was passed on from the Ojibwa Indians to Rene Caisse in the early 1920's.
In May of 1959 Rene Caisse arrived in Cambridge, MA to begin working with Dr. Charles Brusch (one of America's highest regarded doctor's, scientist and personal physician to President John F. Kennedy) to improve the functionability of the original four herb formula.
A potentiating herb means that it is more potent & increases the effectivness of other herbs in addition to adding healing potential of the whole synchronous effect of the entire formula. After eight years of testing and research, the additional four herbs that were added to the core four herbs were Watercress, Blessed Thistle, Red Clover and Kelp.
To paraphrase of some of what Rene Caisse had to say about this Indian brew "my treatment is non-toxic herbs. It goes to the seat of the trouble no matter where it is whether internal or on the surface, and gives healthy cells the strength to resist the demands of the malignant cells for the substance upon which the malignancy thrives, thus causing a recession of the malignant cells from the healthy cells, which have become stronger."
And, in reference to using Essiac as a daily supplement, Nurse Caisse also said "My treatment, given to people in health, is helpful in that it is a blood purifier and will do its work before there is any chance of the malignant cells invading the body."
We, at Herbal Balance For Life, Inc. use the eight herb improved formula, as passed to us through Dr. Brusch's estate, to make the most effect Essiac available.
Thanks,
Jim
The original four herb formula for Essiac consisted of Burdock Root, Slippery Elm bark, Rhubarb Root & Sheep Sorrel. These four herbs are the core to the Essiac formula, that was passed on from the Ojibwa Indians to Rene Caisse in the early 1920's.
In May of 1959 Rene Caisse arrived in Cambridge, MA to begin working with Dr. Charles Brusch (one of America's highest regarded doctor's, scientist and personal physician to President John F. Kennedy) to improve the functionability of the original four herb formula.
A potentiating herb means that it is more potent & increases the effectivness of other herbs in addition to adding healing potential of the whole synchronous effect of the entire formula. After eight years of testing and research, the additional four herbs that were added to the core four herbs were Watercress, Blessed Thistle, Red Clover and Kelp.
To paraphrase of some of what Rene Caisse had to say about this Indian brew "my treatment is non-toxic herbs. It goes to the seat of the trouble no matter where it is whether internal or on the surface, and gives healthy cells the strength to resist the demands of the malignant cells for the substance upon which the malignancy thrives, thus causing a recession of the malignant cells from the healthy cells, which have become stronger."
And, in reference to using Essiac as a daily supplement, Nurse Caisse also said "My treatment, given to people in health, is helpful in that it is a blood purifier and will do its work before there is any chance of the malignant cells invading the body."
We, at Herbal Balance For Life, Inc. use the eight herb improved formula, as passed to us through Dr. Brusch's estate, to make the most effect Essiac available.
Thanks,
Jim
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