Essiac Lineage
The Englishwoman
Mrs. Johnson kept the secret of the Medicine Man’s eight-herb herbal formula closely guarded for almost thirty years until 1922 when she was in her early eighties and hospitalized in Haileybury, N. Ontario, where she met Head Nurse Rene Caisse. In response to the nurse’s querying the unusual scarring on her right breast she described how she had employed the indigenous remedy to affect a full recovery from an aggressive menopausal cancer and passed on the details of the formula.
