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WHOLENESS

Arorwet and Tendwet: The Amazing

AfriKan Herbal Remedy for Infertility

The solutions to Afrika’s increasing health crisis, don’t lie in complicated phar-

maceuticals. They don’t rest in R&D projects that are worth millions or billions of
dollars, No! It’s so much simpler than that. We can heal our bodies and restore
our minds, and rebuild our immunity from the diversity of flora that we find in our
continent. It is that simple. So why not go back to what was working before we took

in what is killing us? Think about it!
Chioma Phillips

Tell us about yourself and how when I got very familiar, with the sometimes I was vegan, vegetarian,
you got started. medical element or all the different I was just doing fruits. When I was
treatments that are available for doing that, all I was trying to do
My name is Harriet Ng’ok and I’m women with difficult periods. was ease my own pain, so going on
the CEO/Founder of Harriet’s a 21-day juice fast, the whole idea
Botanicals. And it’s very interest- Now what I didn’t know at the time was that my period would be better.
ing how I came into this journey is that difficult periods are associ- I became the kind of person who
because I’m actually an investment ated also with infertility - primary could make things, who could make
banker, that is my background. I or secondary - because most of the essential oils. I started learning how
lived in England for fifteen years, I time you’re suffering from some to make tablets.
left here (Kenya) in 1995 and when type of hormonal imbalance which
I finished my education, I started will cause the growth of fibroids Wow! This is survival.
working and started having this and the growth of cysts. You could
serious challenge with my, menstrua- be having PCOS, Polycystic Ovary Yeah. For me it was just survival but
tion, a lot of pain agony, pain killers, Syndrome or endometriosis and that was what was happening in my
and visiting doctors and gynecolo- there’s so much pain associated kitchen. When I came home again
gists all the time. And it interfered with that, or adenomyosis. I didn’t (to Kenya) every month I would be
big time with my work. know that at the time; people just laid out for 4-5 days, and the week
normalize pain around your period. before I’d have crazy mood swings.
I was working in a very competitive You take your painkillers, you’re I mean, my mood was interfering
environment. So, then what I started bleeding so much and you’re losing with my life because that’s when you
doing is if I went into a pharmacy, iron, and you're feeling weak, you sought of like ‘kosana’ (disagree)
I would also go into a homeopathy, have a headache, you have PMS, with everybody, you’re always mad
because the streets of London liter- you have mood swings, you’re very at people and you people don’t un-
ally had all these varieties of differ- difficult to live with, the week before derstand what’s going on with you.
ent things you could try. So, if the and sometimes during the week of.
pain killer wasn’t working, I thought It wasn’t treated as serious problem. So there’s a lady who was working
maybe a homeopathic tablet would So fast track, I became one of those for us, and she suggested that her
work or maybe some yoga would people who was like a concoctionist uncle who was a herbalist had some
work or some massage. And that is because I used to also do juicing, medicine; we used to call it Webuye

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