Have been reading through various posts and have seen the topic of constipation come up numerous times. I wanted to pass on a remedy to help keep bowels moving for people who are taking meds that can cause constipation.

Mix together:

1/2 cup applesauce
2 tablespoons bran
6 ounces of prune juice

Store mixture in refrigerator.

Eat 2 tablespoons each day. The bran softens and almost dissolves from the applesauce and juice and is not difficult to swallow. My husband put it into his hot cereal in the morning or it can be eaten directly from a spoon.

An important thing to remember is that this is a preventative remedy so you want to take this every day and don't stop until you stop the meds.

Hope this is of help to someone!


Norma Steele/Husband, Gordon, dx 1/17/06 w/ SCC secondary, left neck nodes mass, occult primary. Started chemoradiation 2/17/06, completed 4/5/06 (Weekly Cisplatin & 39 IMRT rads tx) In addition, I am a 9 yr breast cancer survivor.