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basa (prague) on 04/05/2023:
A few years later in reply, but I pull with organic raw coconut oil. I put a gallop of a spoon in my mouth and got used to the texture, imagine it's some kind of a desert. Nice coconut taste helps. You can mix it with a drop of quality essential peppermint oil like Young Living or DoTerra but oil on its own suffices. Imagine how all the toxins are being sucked into the oil by the sloshing action and all the benefits you get from that should by a mile outweigh the time you get used to the texture .. its only 12-15 mins a day and the benefits are enormous. Good luck.
Dry-swallowing is how I do it. Basically tell yourself the oil is for cleaning, not swallowing, and will your body to respond thus. Using sunflower oil--may try coconut oil for variety--and my body does feel like something unpleasant was extracted after complete the oil pulling. Early stages here, so got no more to offer yet.
I strongly suspect 'oil-pulling' works because of the physical suction produced by the 'pulling'. This suction gets blood into the gum tissue, as cupping would effect in skin areas. Thus, there is no need to keep one dose of oil (or salt/borax/baking soda and water, if you prefer that agent) in the mouth for such an extended time; spit or swallow and take another sip. I also believe swallowing the used oil (or water) is actually of benefit as it introduces the supposed 'poisons' to your stomach, allowing that to register and trigger your body's self-defense -- the basis of homeopathy.
Billie, I divided it up into 4 tsp, each in a shot glass. The first tsp I added a small amount of raw honey, then followed by the other three tsp's . Swishing with each tsp as long as I could.
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