Benefits of Oil Pulling and How to do it
Oil pulling is an ancient dental technique that involves swishing a tablespoon of oil in your mouth on an empty stomach early in the morning before you brush your teeth. This action supposedly draws out toxins in your body, primarily to improve oral health but also to improve the overall health of your body.
Before we delve into the benefits of oil pulling, let us talk about how to do oil pulling the right way. Firstly, you need either one of these three oils – coconut oil, sesame oil and sunflower oil. You need to take a tablespoon of the oil and simply ‘swish’ it in your mouth continuously for 20 minutes. The oil would slowly lose its viscosity and become white. Then you’ll have to spit it out. Here is the important part – NEVER SWALLOW the oil. It can be very toxic to the body if swallowed. Oil pulling brings all the toxins out of the mouth and the body. So, it’s crucial not to swallow it.
While there are several benefits of oil pulling, let’s discuss a few of them here:
1. Oral Hygiene – Looking for that shiny white teeth? Do oil pulling. Oil has all the anti-bacterial and anti-viral property that cleanses the teeth and removes all the toxins from your teeth. It also removes tooth cavities that show up between the teeth. Try it for two weeks and you will see the difference.
2. Optimizes hormones – Doing regular oil pulling informs the hormones to function properly without the need for any medicines to balance the hormones.
3. Detoxifies the body – The germs inside your body go through the mouth and the best way to remove them is to remove them at the entry point itself. The change in color of the oil to white at the end of oil pulling is nothing but the toxins removed.
4. Increases energy levels – When the toxins are removed from the body, it naturally increases the energy level in the body because the immune system has less “work” to do.
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