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How to Help Yourself after a Cancer Diagnosis; An Herbalist Perspective

Disclaimer: I am an Herbalist not a GP, if you think there is a possibility that you might have cancer then you need to go to your doctor to get checked. I am also not claiming to treat cancer. Cancer can be very scary, the sheer thought of it can bring anxiety attacks on in some people. But every person is different, as is every cancer and cancer has a much higher survival rate than it used to, even 5 years ago. The treatment however can have some truly awful side effects which can make the treatment a miserable experience. There are things that you can do for yourself that will help during the process. The first thing I am going to say is once you have received your diagnosis then go and see an herbalist as we are fantastic at helping with the side effects of mainstream cancer treatment. But then I would say that, I am an Herbalist after all!  Green Smoothie Fasting : This is specific to the day before and the day of the chemo treatment. (And the day after if you ca

Healthy Fudge

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Healthy Fudge Recipe with photographs I finally managed to get this up. I wrote a post on the Facebook page with this recipe without the photographs and people seemed to like it. So I decided to post it here with some rather terrible photographs to demonstrate as a slightly more permanent reference. Ingredients: 200g 70%+ chocolate 300g Coconut oil 35g ground turmeric powder 20g ground cinnamon 5g ground pepper Directions: Melt the chocolate and the coconut over a low heat  Add the powders to the mixture                   Continue to stir over the low heat until the mixture is smooth. This makes about 1pt. Then Either Spoon into chocolate moulds or into an ice cube tray     Place in the fridge for 15 minutes to set Eat at leisure Or Pour onto a flat tray and place into the freezer for an hour Take out of the freezer and cut it up into even pieces Put the pieces in a container and store in the fridge The choc