Manjeet (Singapore, Serangoon North ) on 01/13/2010
Better But With Side Effects
I finally began my personal Oil-Pulling with Sunflower after reading about it and success stories of others. Today is my second day and the immediate positive feedback that I have experienced from the oil-pulling is that I feel an unbelievable cleanliness in my mouth. I purposely did not clean my tongue which needed cleaning and found that the whiteness has disappeared by about 75% - amazing! I thopught that I would feel the oiliness in my mouth after the oil-pulling but I am very happy to say that there is no such feeling though on the first day I did feel it for a short spell.
However, I find that I cannot carry on 'pulling' for more than a few minutes (3 to 4) not because of saliva accumulation as some report but because I get a pain in the back of my head (above the neck). I wonder if anyone else has experienced this. I overcome this by just stop for a few seconds and then carry on. But, despite the short time that I spend on pulling, I find that the oil that I spit out is 'milky' in colour.
So far I am happy with my pulling and will report back as I see further changes.
Lolo (Paris, France) on 02/06/2009
Better But With Side Effects
Oil pulling with sunflower oil for sinus infection: So I've been suffering from an incredibly long case of sinusitis, accompanied by what appeared to be a staph infection in my nose and a boil on my face. The sinus infection got significantly worse after two rounds of antibiotics that did not work, so I of course started looking toward alternative methods of healing. I've tried all of them here on earthclinic, but the one that seemed to bring about the most violent reaction from my body is the oil pulling. Wednesday I swished the oil around in my mouth for 20 minutes, spit out all the white stuff and went about my business. That evening I started to have heart palpitations and a slight worsening of some aches and pains I had been having already (certainly due to some of the detox methods suggested here). But on Thursday morning... OH MY GOD!!! I felt like I was going to DIE. My body hurt all over, I could barely breath at times, I spent most of the day in bed, I was crying, coughing up everything possible. I called a doctor who examined me. He took my blood pressure -- it had dropped significantly, which explained the shivers and dizziness. Nevertheless, he told me there was nothing wrong with me and said I should calm down. As the night went on, I started to feel a bit better, but couldn't wait to go to sleep to wake up to a new day. Amazingly, I slept great and woke up feeling 150% better. I sustained that feeling for the entire day -- first time since the beginning of my infection. I'm still sick, but I feel much better today and finally believe that I might be on the road to recovery. I don't know if this was just a coincidence, but it seems pretty unlikely. Anyway, I'm a firm believer in OP now! Thanks earthclinic for your amazing site! Excellent health to you all!
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