Oil Pulling Therapy (OPT)

[Frankie u.k.]

This is sooooo interesting. I have to take euthyrox tablet in the morning, half an hour before eating for an underactive thyroid. Would OP be before or after this do you know? And does it help the metabolism? I think you mentioned something about this earlier on the thread?

I am looking forward to it, NOT, but willing to give it a go and hopefully get my snoring husband to do it too!

Lightningstar xxx

 

[ariellee.]

Hi Lightningstar,

It is best to do oil pulling first thing on an empty stomach, then rinse your mouth out with cool boiled water with some natural sea salt and give your teeth, gums inside of cheeks and tongue a good brush with a natural tooth paste or use sea salt and bicarb of soda or a natural bar soap or even good old H2O.

If you want to do it later in the day, it is recommended that you wait at least 3-4hrs after eating and drinking to make sure your system is empty, that is why it is prefered to do it first thing in morning.

I do my oil pulling in the morning whilst looking at HP

 

[Refilwe]

Cool, I will try it before the tablet I think. Something is telling me this, so I will listen to it.

Thanks for your help and guidance in this. Will let you know how it goes.

Love

Lightningstar xxx

 

[sketqucvibhiebesd]

Hi everyone,

I read about this a while ago and thought why not give it a try? I used sunflower cooking oil but unfortunately the feel of the oil in my mouth made me want to retch all the time and I could only keep going for about 10 mins. After 3 daysI gave up (even typing this is making my stomach heave lol!). Not sure how to get round that problem as I would like to give it a fair go.

Love and light

reikiangel

xxx

 

[balloon molly]

Hee heee, yes I tried it for the first time this morning with sunflower oil and was trying my hardest not to retch. I managed to do the 20 minutes to my amazement and rinsed my mouth out with warm water and salt. Oh my word that was worse. My husband however found it very amusing!!!!

Will stick with it and will try again either before lunch or again tomorrow morning.

Love

Lightningstar xxx

 

[hanizee]

Hi Reikiangel & Lightningstar,

The first time can be a mouthful, instead of swishing for the full 20 minutes, some people swish for 5 minutes and then spit out and put in another spoonfull and swish for a further 5 minutes and repeat the process untill 20 minutes have gone. Obviously you are using more oil, but you could try this for a week untill you get used to the oil in your mouth and then revert back to leaving it in for 20 minutes.

The mistake I made when I first began to pull was to let too much air in to my mouth which made it hard to swish and made me gag and of course I splurted out the oil everywhere; you should sip, suck, swish and pull the oil around your mouth and through your teeth but do not swallow the oil.

 

[supertop]

Thanks Magno! I will try that method and see how I go.

Love and light

reikangel

xxx

 

[Roshelle K]

Anyone try ozonating oil for the swishing?

I'm going to ozonate some oil, if interested I'll post results?

Peace,
Hawk[sm=dance.gif]

 

[Bigam Yaroslavl]

Hi zerocrash,

Welcome to to HP

No I have not tried ozonating the oil but I have heard of others doing it with some good results.

 

[Nan Chen]

Cool,
do you happen to know their protocol on ozonating the oil,
or do you know where I can read their posts?
(I suppose that all I have to do is to backtrack and read the posts that are here).

I'm going to ozonate both olive, and sunflower, to see the results.

I'm also only going to ozonate the oil for about an hour.
that way it will still be in a liquid form.

thanks for your welcome mat.[8D]

Hawk.

 

[123456789]

hi there

ive been familiar with oil pulling for awhile, though ive never tried it. im wondering if anybody has found it beneficial for acne?

 

[Kracker]

Hello, I am new and have not tried oil pulling, although I want to. But, I have a question. I have mitral valve prolapse and I need to take antibiotics before any dental work because of the bacteria in the mouth. Would the toxins in my mouth from the oil pulling be dangerous for me because of the mvp?
Thanks,
Brenda Marsh

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[Mahmut Demir]

Hi Brenda,

Welcome to the forums, to be honest I do not know whether you could do O.P, your best bet would be to talk it through with you physician or dental surgeon, more than likely they will laugh at the idea but as I have only discovered oil pulling I am no expert

 

[Fillet-O-Fish]

I have oily sensitive skin and used to have acne. I found my skin improved after oil pulling.I had problems finding a moisturiser for my skinso started using Sweet almond oil(from health food shop)which has helped.

 

[AAM]

I've tried this just once - this morning. I seem to create a huge amount of saliva whilst doing this. What I am doing is this. Imagine that you have no oil in your mouth at all - and you are trying to create saliva to spit out (this is done via a pulling action). That's what I do when the oil is in my mouth. So I have to spit it out after about 5 minutes because I have a mouthful of oil + saliva. I can't quite understand what you guys mean about the technique.

Can you please explain it... in a dumbed down way? Clearly I need the oil-pulling for dumbies lesson!

 

[Chirag]

Hi neukolnn,

Place a table spoon of oil in to your mouth and slowly swish it around your mouth and suck it through your teeth. It's like you would do with a mouth wash but start the action slowly and do not gargle or swallow the oil.

If you find you need to spit out the oil after 5 minutes then that is fine, just place another table spoon in your mouth and start again.

The end result should be a white emulsified oil and saliva mix.

 

[Soccer Babe]

Thanks Magno. I was really clear that we are not to gargle or swallow - so that bit was fine. I am just concerned about the volume of stuff we swish around our mouths. Just to be absolutely certain that I am not doing the wrong thing - can you confirm that the amount you spit out is about 4 times that you started with? The mouthwash analogy was useful to me - thanks - because I do swish that around my mouth and draw it through my teeth. I think that I was doing gobbing-up-a-ball-of-saliva-ready-to-spit-out action with a bit too much gusto! I managed, today, to do two lots of 10 minutes.

I'm using flaxseed oil because I have a massive bottle of near-to-useby-date oil which cost £13 - so I don't want to toss it and use cheap sunflower oil.

If there is anything I've said which sounds like I am still not doing the right thing please let me know. Otherwise, many thanks for your help.

 

[Keem]

Hi Everyone[sm=nature-smiley-008.gif]
I have read and understood how to oil pull although i haven't tried it yet. I know that you have to rinse the mouth and brush the teeth afterwards, but i wondered if you had to brush your teeth BEFORE you oil pull? (i think i read it somewhere) Has anyone done this and is there a difference?

Love and Light
caroline

 

[Acid]

Hi again everyone

To tell you the truth, I'm a bit disappointed with OPT. I've been doing it for some time now and honestly haven't noticed anything much. I changed from ordinary sunflower oil b ecause my teeth were beginning to look quite grey to organic sesame oil. But I still have sore gums and no difference anywhere else really.

Neukoln - are you sure it's OK to use flaxseed oil? I thought only sunflower or sesame were recommended. I certainly don't spit out four times as much liquid as I use for swishing. Just a bit more.

Caroline - I brush my teeth after the OPT and then again after breakfast. Before OPT would be a brush too far for me but I too remember reading that it was recommended.

Anyway I'm going on holiday on Monday and I honestly think I'm going to give it up.

Love
Sunanda xxx

 

[gjjmgdk, gjmgj]

neukolnn: The oil will double in volume whilst you are swishing but will thin out after a while, which is normaly 20 minutes, however depending on the amount of toxins in your system it could be longer.

20 minutes is the standard time before we have to spit it out, but I know of some that go beyond the 20 min mark.

You seem to be doing it correct.

carolinemac: If you feel it neccessary to brush before hand I would only use a dry brush without toothpaste; or if your mouth is dry you could wet the brush but spit out the water.

I have drank a glass of water in the morning if I am totally dry, but I wait an hour before I pull.

sunanda: I'm sorry you have not experienced any positive results with OPT, as you may know not all therapies suit everyone.

It was recommended to use either sunflower or sesamee oil but this could have been the only oil available at the time.

Experiment with different oils to find one that will work for you.

Try adding a drop of Tea Tree oil or Oregano oil to the tablespoon of oil or a drop of peppermint oil.

Sometimes conditions can take time to heal.

If all else fails you could stop for a couple of weeks and try again and see if you notice a difference.