Oil pulling is saving my life

by Linda Redmond, LMBT
(North Carolina)

I started oil pulling in 2007, and have done it off & on usually for at least several months at a time. I regret it when I get busy & fail to do it bc I do not feel as good! I could write a book on what it has done for me, so I won't detail it all here. I had many debilitating & chronic health issues, and they have all improved or disappeared after oil pulling - though I have had some "healing crises" along the way as described above. As a professional massage & bodywork therapist and a personal practic-er of alternative medicine for many years, I am well aware that when toxins & unwanted micro-organisms are being removed from the body it can be unpleasant for awhile and you need to go SLOWLY, cautiously and sensibly. Sometimes I have oil pulled a few days per week instead of every day to slow the detox process, but these healing crises pass as you move into greater health.

I use sunflower or olive oil because I am sensitive to sesame (it gives me diahreah, a common reaction). I may try sesame later, as I get more able to tolerate difficult foods. I believe sesame is more astringent than other oils, which would increase its "pulling" & detox capabilities, and it may be better in other ways. The oil in my mouth makes me salivate profusely, and that saliva tastes bad, like the taste you notice when you have "a bad taste in your mouth" or bad breath. I don't know about the vein under the tongue being the primary vehicle for the detox effect of oil pulling (though that vein is good for other applications), but I feel sure that just the profuse saliva and the surprising "pulling" action of the oil gets rid of stuff. There may be other, more profound mechanisms to oil puling as well, but I just know it works for me. I look better, feel better, sleep great now, am healed of intestinal issues, some headaches and much much more.

I literally do not know how I would have survived and remained functional if I had not found out about oil pulling on the internet in 2007. I don't even remember how I stumbled across it. It must have been divine intervention!