Chocolate Coconut Truffles
Thrush in the patient’s throat is one of the side effects of killing all the healthy flora in your body with chemicals. Keep a few of these in the refrigerator and let them melt in your mouth a few times a day. It can help remove that metallic taste in your mouth from the drugs and may reduce the thrush too.
2 cups organic cocoa powder (unsweetened)
2/3 cup cold pressed coconut oil- warmed slightly until it melts
1/3 cup Agave syrup (Maple syrup can substitute)
1 tsp vanilla extract
pinch sea salt
Mix all the ingredients in a blender or food processor until smooth. It will seem quite thin, kind of a thick syrup. Pour it into a shallow bowl or pie tin and put in the refrigerator to set. In about an hour you can scoop the truffles out with a melon baler or spoon.
Keep in the refrigerator for up to a week.
The coconut oil melts at 75 degrees, so you can pop one of these into your mouth and let it melt slowly, coating your mouth with rich chocolate flavor.
This is wonderfully soothing when the chemicals from chemo kills all the beneficial bacteria that protect the lining of your throat and thrush sets in. Thrush is an infection of the mouth caused by the Candida fungus, also known as yeast. It can make the throat and mouth dry and scratchy and make it difficult to swallow.
Coconut oil is said to kill the candida and support immune function. Non-hydrogenated coconut oil acts like a carbohydrate in that it is quickly broken down in the liver and used as quick energy. It also supports thyroid function and can increase metabolism and lower blood pressure.
Coconut oil improves digestion and absorption of fat soluble vitamins, minerals and amino acids. It improves the body’s use of blood glucose and improves insulin secretion and absorption.
Agave syrup is becoming more and more popular and is said to be very low on the glycemic index.
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