Essiac Tea Herb Quality: Sourcing, Testing & Freshness
Want to know what goes into high-quality Essiac tea? This page explains how herbs are sourced, tested, and handled to maintain freshness and consistency—so you can feel confident about what you’re choosing and how it’s prepared
Herb quality is of the utmost importance to us at Genuine Essiac™. After all, we have 21 years' worth of a reputation to uphold.
We choose the herbs we need for our Essiac formula based on which herb companies can offer us the highest quality herbs at the lowest price so that we can keep this authentic Essiac tea affordable for all.
Where We Source Our Genuine Essiac Herbs
We carefully source our herbs from reputable, established suppliers from within the U.S. to support quality and consistency. We can provide Certificates of Analysis upon request. Our herbs are regularly tested by independent third party laboratories for purity and safety, including screening for heavy metals, pesticides, and microbial contaminants.
Genuine Essiac Nutrition Facts
You can see the Genuine Essiac Nutrition Facts here.
Find Out About Our Essiac Herbs Moisture Content and Freshness
The herbs have 12-15% moisture content for the blessed thistle, sheep sorrel including the root, and kelp. The herbs have less than 10% moisture content for the burdock root, red clover, slippery elm bark, watercress, and turkish rhubarb root. These are the percentages taught to us to use by Dr. Charles Brusch who was Rene Caisse's research assistant.
Our Genuine Essiac herbs are always exceptionally fresh because we sell thousands of pounds of Essiac every month. We turn over our entire inventory of herbs approximately every 3 weeks! We prepare and consume Essiac regulary for our own family including our beloved cat, which means that we are just as invested as you are in keeping each and every batch of Essiac of the utmost quality.
Many customers have commented on how fresh our Essiac herbs look, smell, and taste.
If you purchase Essiac from a store that sells more than one herbal formula, you are far more likely to receive stale herbs. Our one and only formula here is Essiac tea, and we sell a lot of it. That means we never have stale herbs sitting around. This is key, because herb quality can deteriorate as the months and years go by. By always having fresh herbs to sell, it also means we don't need to add preservatives to the formula, which is far better for your health. It also means the product will last longer once it arrives in your hands.
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Customer Story
Individual results vary and are not typical. Not medical advice.
Disclaimer: This is a Genuine Essiac™ customer’s personal experience. This content is for informational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Learn Why Powdered Essiac Herbs Are What Rene Caisse Used, and are the Best Type to Purchase Today
Powdered herbs are made by crushing or pulverizing whole herbs. The resulting powdered herbs look like what you see inside a tea bag (by the way, avoid using Essiac in tea bag form, because you won't get to consume the herbs, which have beneficial properties. More about that in this blog post). Our Essiac herbs are made with powdered herbs, just as Rene Caisse used. See a video clip of her preparing powdered Essiac herbs here.
Powdered Essiac herbs make for a more potent brew of tea. This is because there is more surface area on powdered herbs, which better allows the extracts to seep into the tea. Anything in powdered form mixes easier and more completely. It just makes sense! Powdered herbs have a much higher absorbability rate than whole ones. Read more about why powdered herbs are superior when it comes to Essiac tea.
Powdered herbs are tiny enough that they can be consumed along with the tea - which is why I'll say it one more time - you should never, ever buy Essiac that comes in tea bags. Consuming the herbs themselves along with the tea is most beneficial way to consume Essiac because you want to get the full plant into your body. The Ojibway were the first ones to be credited with using Essiac tea, and they believed in never throwing anything away. They taught Rene Caisse the formula and the best type of herb to use.
By the way, it only takes 10 minutes once every two weeks to prepare Essiac tea using these powered herbs. It's super easy. The powdered herbs are the variety that Rene Caisse used and recommended, and we do not stray from her recommendations in any way. More on that below!
We Believe so Much in Eight Herb Essiac That We Refuse to Sell Four Herb Tea
Rene Caisse and Dr. Charles Brusch tested Essiac from the years of 1959 - 1967 at the Brusch Medical Research Center in Cambridge, MA. Between the four herb and eight herb Essiac formulas, the eight herb formula performed the best. At the conclusion of that research, Rene Caisse switched her recommendation of four herb Essiac to eight herb Essiac. It's all documented in the book The Essiac Report by Richard Thomas if you'd like to read about it for yourself. At Genuine Essiac, we hold the same standards for Essiac herb quality that Rene Caisse used when she worked with the formula. If you want to take a deeper dive into 4 versus 8 herb Essiac, click here.
Natural Herbs Can Vary in Taste and Texture - That's Normal When No Preservatives Are Used
We only ship herbs that pass our rigorous quality standards to our customers. It is normal for these minimally processed herbs to vary a bit in taste and texture over the months and years. That is because we don't use additives and preservatives, just as Rene Caisse suggested. It's the same reason why fruits don't always taste the same from year to year. Natural is healthiest, even if nature isn't always perfectly uniform!
Hear What One of Our Genuine Essiac Customers Has to Say
"Hi Gina, Letting you know that my Essiac Tea order arrived and I am now finishing my first week of my recently brewed batch. The quality is really wonderful, and so far seems to be far superior to any other Essiac products on the market."
Warren D.
Orland Park, IL
For more customer feedback, visit our Testimonials page or our Reviews page.
Don't Hesitate! Order your own supply of Genuine Essiac Today
Be careful when comparing price with companies who sell only a couple of weeks' worth at a time — we sell enough to last months at a time which saves you a ton of money.
It costs less than $1 per day to use our Essiac — the best price you'll find anywhere! We also back your purchase with our Industry-Exclusive 6-Month Money-Back Guarantee.
Purchase your own supply of Genuine Essiac Herbs today.
All orders come complete with easy-to-follow instructions and suggested use.
This tea is simple to make and takes just ten minutes to make a two-week supply.
Related Pages
Learn more about the Essiac tea ingredients
Find out about the benefits of Essiac tea
Our story of how we became stewards of Essiac tea