Two Ancient Tonics Big Pharma Fought to Suppress 

The information here is from The Truth About Cancer with Ty and Charlene Bollinger.

This is from The Truth About Cancer August 16 email newsletter.

For over a century, two humble herbal tonics—Essiac Tea and the Hoxsey Tonic—have been credited with shrinking tumors, reversing “terminal” diagnoses, and giving hope to families abandoned by the cancer establishment.  Naturally, that made them Public Enemy #1 to the Medical Mafia (aka Big Pharma + Big Medicine + their pet regulators).

But here’s the kicker: both remedies were studied, tested, observed by real doctors and patients, and even documented in the medical literature. And yet, instead of welcoming cheap, non-toxic, people-first treatments, the Cancer Industry responded the only way it knows how: suppression, smear campaigns, and character assassination.

Let’s dig into the stories of the two most famous herbal tonics that cured too many cancers to be allowed.

Essiac Tea

In 1922, Canadian nurse Rene Caisse noticed scar tissue on an elderly woman’s breast. The woman explained she had once been diagnosed with breast cancer but cured herself with a Native herbal brew. That “brew” eventually became Essiac Tea (Caisse spelled backwards).

One of its core herbs was sheep sorrel, dismissed as a weed by modern medicine but revered by indigenous healers for centuries. A Chicago medical team led by Dr. John Wolfer even oversaw an 18-month Essiac trial on terminal patients at Northwestern University in the 1930s. The results? Patients lived longer, tumors shrank, pain was relieved.

But instead of celebration, Caisse was persecuted, threatened with arrest, and pressured by Canadian and U.S. health authorities to surrender her formula to industry control. She refused. Why? She knew once Big Pharma got it, the tea would be buried forever, or worse, watered down and monetized.

By 1938, 55,000 citizens signed a petition urging the Ontario legislature to recognize Essiac as an official cancer treatment. The motion failed by three votes. Imagine how many lives hung in the balance.

Even Dr. Charles Brusch, personal physician to JFK, later admitted: “I know Essiac has curing potential. It can lessen the condition of the individual, control it, and it can cure it.” But in case you missed it … if something is cheap, safe, and hard to patent, the Cancer Industry labels it “folk nonsense.” 

The Hoxsey Tonic: From Healing Horses to Fighting the AMA

The story began in the 1840s, when Hoxsey’s grandfather noticed a cancer-stricken horse healing itself by grazing on specific plants. He brewed a tonic from those herbs, first treating animals, then people. Harry inherited both the formula and the mission, opening the Hoxsey Cancer Clinic in Dallas in 1924.

Within 30 years, it was the largest private cancer clinic in the world, treating patients in 17 states. Here’s the inconvenient part for the establishment: in 1954, a panel of ten independent physicians investigated the clinic and reported that it was “successfully treating pathologically proven cases of cancer, both internal and external, without the use of surgery, radium or x-ray.” That’s right! Doctors admitted it worked.

But there was a problem. Enter Dr. Morris Fishbein, head of the AMA and editor of JAMA, who tried to buy the tonic rights. When Hoxsey refused, Fishbein launched a smear campaign, branding him the “worst cancer quack of the century.” Hoxsey was arrested over 200 times, harassed by FDA agents who even raided patients’ homes, and ultimately driven out of the U.

The Dallas clinic was forced to close in 1960. Hoxsey’s longtime nurse, Mildred Nelson, fled to Tijuana, Mexico, where the Bio-Medical Center still treats cancer patients today. As a matter of fact, we interviewed doctors and patients from the Hoxsey Biomedical Center while filming for our docu-series.  Here’s a short video about the Hoxsey clinic: 

I trust this has been helpful to you.