I wen’t to a health-store this afternoon and saw Essiac capsules in sale (50% off). Most people buy it as a cancer remedy, but it’s supposed to have other health benefits: discount-essiac-tea.com/essi … efits.html
I thought the regular price was a bit high, but when I saw the sale, I thought it was a good moment to give it a try and bought it.
Anyone else ever tried the Essiac capsules or the tea?
There’s definitely something about these herbs. I took two capsules yesterday and I felt very relaxed and happy. At some point, I began to feel an agreeable tingling in my veins. I believe it’s a normal sensation, but I usually don’t feel anything like that anymore, as if the switch had been turned off. It’s a sensation that has something to do with what you feel when you feel the blood curdling in your veins, something that didn’t happen to me since my crash. I suppose the numbing of that sensation might explain the incapacity of feeling emotions. In my case, I suppose I have emotions, but they are abstract because it’s as if I couldn’t really feel them.
Sleep was better than usual, and when I woke up, I noticed I was breathing very easily. I don’t think about it anymore, but I usually feel some tiredness that makes it more difficult to breath. I remember that the year of my crash, I began to be short-winded when I was walking while talking. Well, it seems to help with that and with fatigue in general.
So, I only took two capsules yesterday, but the dosage is 2-4 capsules twice a day, so this means you can take 8 capsules a day. I’ll try the highest dosage to see what happens, but I must say that at 8 capsules a day, it becomes extremely expensive.
I think just time is helping you with the breathing and short windedness. Me also, 2 years ago I would huff and puff going up stairs, now I’m much better and can walk fast without getting winded. By the way this is a good sign for you
Just to be clear, I wasn’t thinking about the Essiac and trying to evaluate if I felt any different because of it when I noticed this morning how easily I was breathing, I just woke, thought: WTF, I don’t feel I’m suffocating, which is the way I normally feel waking up, and then I thought: oh, it must be the Essiac. Unless you want to believe an improvement due to time coincidentally became noticeable today, I think I can say it has something to do with the Essiac capsules I took the night before.
I’ve been taking Essiac for two months now and it has been so beneficial that there’s moments when I feel almost completely normal mentally. Just a couple months ago, I was at the lowest point of my life and it was as if I had finally reached the point where I had lost myself completely and really had no more reasons to live. Now I can say I’m functional: I can sleep at night, work, speak and interact with people and make plans for the future that are not just evasion schemes.
I’m not saying it’s a cure and I have no idea if everything would go back to what it was before if I would stop taking it, but I believe it’s something that can help people with serious mental sides like I had. Sexually, it’s not helpful, and I feel it has a negative effect on libido when I up the dosage, but you can just skip it when you know you’re going to have sex. The most important thing for me is that I’m able to sleep more normally now and I feel that sleep is also bringing about some progress.
I mentioned that the Essiac brand is pretty pricey if you take 4 to 8 capsules like they recommend. I tried 8 capsules a day, but I felt so elated that I couldn’t sleep. Now I’m just taking 2 capsules a day, which means it must be between 30 and 40 dollars for a month’s supply depending on the price it’s sold. But I ordered it from that site, where you can get a pound for 30 dollars: mountainroseherbs.com/produ … nd/profile
I’ll see if it is as good as the Essiac brand.
I am interested, for sure, if you feel it helps with sleep and energy levels (my two biggest concerns, at this point). I talked to my local naturalist store, and they have it in tea form. I wonder if it would be as effective? Also, I wonder if it is disgusting?
Yeah, I think this stuff should help you a lot with energy levels. In my case, it completely changed my life. Work used to be pure nightmare because of the exhaustion. Now, I feel I still have energy at the end of the day. Also, it may sound weird but often I was unable to sleep because of the exhaustion, and the exhaustion would even wake me in the middle of the night, but it doesn’t happen anymore. At first, I didn’t feel it was easier to fall asleep, but I felt I slept better and felt more normal the next day. But now, after two months on it, I’m able to fall asleep even if I didn’t run or go to the gym, and this would have been absolutely impossible before.
I’ve been taking the essiac I ordered from the site I posted for a couple of days now and it seems to have the same effect on me. They sell it to be taken as a tea as the one in the naturalist store, but what I do is I use an empty capsule of about 500 mg to measure the amount I take. I prefer to masticate this essiac before swallowing it because there’s little bits of it that aren’t completely powdered, but I suppose it would probably not kill me either to swallow it as it is. The taste is not great, but not that awful.
I tried the capsules and the extract, but didn’t try to make the tea because I thought it wasn’t necessary to go into the trouble if I could get exactly the same result just ingesting the powder.
I’ve also started this treatment because i have problems with extreme fatigue / exhaustion. Maybe it will help, maybe not. I am just going to give it a try. I have made the tea and had my first one yesterday. I also want to start with calcium right before going to bed because i also wake up in the middle of the night and it’s very difficult to get in that deep sleep again.
Essiac will help you, and I’m still using it when I need a little boost, but if I were you, I would also consider trying chaga.
You’re mentioning calcium for sleep, but do you mean ZMA? I’m not sure of the effect of calcium on sleep by itself.