Friday 13 May 2011

What is Oil Pulling? Does It Really Have Any Health Benefits?

If you have heard anything about oil pulling therapy and all the buzz that has been circulating about its benefits, then you will want to know exactly what oil pulling is.


Oil pulling is a natural therapy that was initially pioneered by a Ukrainian Health practitioner in the person of Dr. F. Karach, L. D from Ukraine. This is a natural form of therapy based on the process of swishing around your mouth for a few minutes. However, this form of therapy has been in existence since ancient times. It was called "Kavala Graham" in ancient Ayurvedic texts.


You would wonder why anyone have any interest in doing this? There is a lot of recent scientific evidence backing the effectiveness of this therapy. In addition, Dr. Karach has claimed oil pulling therapy has the potential to heals the practitioner in it's entirety. He made this discovery after oil pulling and subjecting his mucus to microscopic examination.


It was oil pulling therapy that helped Dr. Karach to cure chronic blood problems which he suffered from over 15 years!


The main benefit that one gets from oil pulling is that by swishing around the inside of your mouth, toxins and microbes get "pulled" through your bloodstream into your mucous membranes. This has been proven by many studies.


A study was conducted by Sharath, et. al, with the aim of determining how effective oil pulling was on oral health status was conducted using the principal product Sesame Oil. They recorded a DRASTIC decrease in plaque and micro-organisms in the plaque samples, concluding that pulling is an effective home therapy in maintaining and IMPROVING oral health. Another study recruited 10 males (all subjects had mild to moderate gingivitis), and ran a 45 day pulling study.


Using sunflower oil, Sharath subjected each participant to 8-10 minute oil-pulling sessions. The results were astonishing. This study finally concluded that pulling possesses the ability to reduce dental plaque and gingivitis using the Sunflower oil product (Reference - Amith et al., 2007). This is ample proof or should I rather say that there, is scientific evidence backing the effectiveness of his therapy. It will not be far-fetched to say that more studies are still being conducted on this topic and more studies will undoubtedly be conducted in the future. 


Thus, It is clear that there is an established oral health benefit to oil pulling, but what good is pulling to your other health problems? What type of changes can you experience besides the changes inside of your mouth? This is just one of many studies performed to show that oil pulling therapy is indeed one of the long lost secrets to ultimate health and you will come to discover that  the countless benefits of oil pulling for healing are unparalleled.


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