Our family was devastated when my mother-in-law, Myrna, informed us that she had been diagnosed with cancer. In her case, it was ovarian cancer that had spread to the lymph glands and then into the lungs. It was diagnosed as inoperative, and the doctors told her to get her affairs in order. After a hysterectomy, they said, she would have about six months to live. The tumors in her lungs were too numerous to remove. My sister-in-law asked if there was some nutritional approach that might slow the progress of the disease. The doctor assured her there was none.

Desperate, I bought several books on alternative cancer therapies, but I found them either too complicated, geographically removed, or too different to interest my mother-in-law. My prayers became more intense as I watched her arrange her estate and begin journeying to distant old friends "to say good-bye."

Then one day I felt prompted to call my father. Curiously, he had been listening to a Dr. Glum on the radio, who described an herbal remedy with an amazing success rate. Dr. Glum was from California, and the story he told of this herbal remedy, originally from an Ojibway medicine man from Canada, was remarkable. Dr. Glum said he was not allowed to reveal the formula by any other means than video tape. California laws prohibit sharing cancer remedies that are outside the traditional AMA recommendations. By releasing the formula in movie form, Dr. Glum felt he was protected under the Constitutional laws protecting freedom of speech. My father noted the telephone number, but had not called me about it, fearing I would laugh at the suggestion. I immediately called Dr. Glum.

The remedy was so simple and straightforward, I knew my mother-in-law could at least try it. My sister-in-law and I searched the herbal markets for the ingredients, and Grandma began taking a little of the tea each night.

Her doctor was giving her a new hormonal therapy. He hoped it might slow the progress of her disease. But both he and my mother-in-law's nursing cousin assured her it would be wise not to get her hopes up. Yet, the weekly x-rays began indicating something they did not expect. Little by little the tumors in her lungs stabilized, and they began to diminish.

The nursing staff at the doctor's office reacted in awe as week after week the tumors began disappearing and her blood count returned to normal. After several months, one nurse, looking at her x-rays, asked her what her problem was, then told her it could not be cancer. Only after double checking my mother-in-law's chart did the nurse return to apologize. "You were in real trouble!" she said.

A little more than a year after beginning Essiac, the doctor called to tell Myrna she was an official miracle. Her charts showed no indication of cancer in any system. Myrna never told him about the Essiac. To date (July 29,1993) there has been no recurrence of the disease that had first shown itself three years ago.

--Jodee Radosevich, Kirkland, Washington

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