A Simple Technique for Oil Pulling from Sayer Jy
#1 Place a tablespoon of your oil of choice (sesame, sunflower, coconut are preferred) in your mouth.
#2 Swish in mouth, forcing through all teeth and across all areas of your gums. (Really aim to get the oil into every nook and cranny of your mouth. This is very important. Billions of microorganisms dwell in the oral cavity and the mouth is the start of digestion.)
#3 Perform this for 5-20 minutes, ideally early in the morning before breakfast daily.
#4 Spit the oil out in a garbage can, not the sink. This avoids the risk of clogging your drain!
*For faster healing and recovery, do this before every meal or 3 times per day.
So, how does it work? What makes swishing oil so medicinal?
There are a number of studies on oil pulling. One such study from the NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) states that: "Oil pulling activates salivary enzymes which absorb toxins such as chemical toxins, bacterial toxins and environmental toxins from the blood… Thus, oil pulling detoxifies and purifies the entire human body."
As it is swished around your mouth, the lipids (or fatty acids) in the oil naturally extract these potentially harmful substances from your teeth, gums and saliva glands.
In Ayurvedic medicine the mouth is considered to be a "mirror" for the entire body, and when something is out of balance in the oral cavity, a Vedic healer will tell you there is most likely an illness brewing elsewhere in your system as well
