Guest guest Posted November 1, 2006 Report Posted November 1, 2006 I finally overcame my disgust and tried it yesterday, with good sesame oil. Yuck, but the prospect of white teeth is incentive enough to make me persevere. On a good day I stumble out of bed between 6 and 6.30 and hit the yoga mat first thing, or it won't get done. By the time that's done my DH has the coffee ready, and I am ready for it and for food. So I did the pulling thing late in the afternoon, about 3 hours after lunch. Is that good enough, empty-stomach-wise? Ien in the Kootenays ************************** Stop. Breathe. Smile! ~Padma ( my TV yoga teacher) http://freegreenliving.com ************************** Quote
Guest guest Posted November 2, 2006 Report Posted November 2, 2006 I decided that if I was going to do it, it had to be the first stop when I got out of bed in the morning..so I swish while I'm making my coffee, etc... it works, the time passes. Do it while doing your yoga??! I use sesame oil--it was all I had. I finally ordered some sunflower oil but for some reason, the sesame oil feels (?) better...so I'm back to sesame oil. I don't fail to rinse and gargle with salt water with a dash or 2 of baking soda. All part of the ritual.. susie Ieneke van Houten wrote: > I finally overcame my disgust and tried it > yesterday, with good sesame oil. > Yuck, but the prospect of white teeth is > incentive enough to make me persevere. > > On a good day I stumble out of bed between > 6 and 6.30 and hit the yoga mat first thing, > or it won't get done. By the time that's done > my DH has the coffee ready, and I am ready > for it and for food. > > So I did the pulling thing late in the afternoon, > about 3 hours after lunch. > Is that good enough, empty-stomach-wise? > > Ien in the Kootenays > ************************** > Stop. Breathe. Smile! > ~Padma ( my TV yoga teacher) > http://freegreenliving.com > ************************** > > > > Quote
Guest guest Posted November 2, 2006 Report Posted November 2, 2006 hi lady ---- does it help at all with your sinus (or one's sinus?)? ttyl - easier replying this way before i forget!!!! Ieneke van Houten <ienvan wrote: I finally overcame my disgust and tried it yesterday, with good sesame oil. Yuck, but the prospect of white teeth is incentive enough to make me persevere. On a good day I stumble out of bed between 6 and 6.30 and hit the yoga mat first thing, or it won't get done. By the time that's done my DH has the coffee ready, and I am ready for it and for food. So I did the pulling thing late in the afternoon, about 3 hours after lunch. Is that good enough, empty-stomach-wise? Ien in the Kootenays ************************** Stop. Breathe. Smile! ~Padma ( my TV yoga teacher) http://freegreenliving.com ************************** Quote
Guest guest Posted November 2, 2006 Report Posted November 2, 2006 Hi Ien. I've found the sunflower oil to be pretty much tasteless. If I THINK about it being oil, after being in my mouth for the 20 minutes and just before I spit it out, I can actually gag! Lol I have a high gag reflex. But so long as I'm not thinking " I have a mouthful of oil " then everything is fine. I have not noticed any whitening of my teeth, but then I don't drink coffee or smoke so have very few stains to begin with. But my teeth certainly do feel cleaner all day long! And I have to say this--I finally got the courage up to try brushing with hand soap. Now, you must understand that when us kids were little my mom would make us take a bite of soap and eat it if we were caught telling lies--so after my first bite of soap you can imagine I never lied much. Yuck!! So though I have heard about using a mild, glycerin free soap like dove for brushing the teeth and how very healthy it is for the gums, I just couldn't bring myself to try it. SOAP! Deliberately put on my TEETH! NO WAY. But, my husband likes dove soap and had left a bar sitting on the bathroom counter. I figured after my bold adventure with oil pulling I could try anything. I just steeled my nerves, tentatively rubbed the toothbrush over the bar ONCE and put it in my mouth. Not much of anything!!! So I rubbed the brush a couple of times, enough to make a tiny bit of foam, and brushed. Again--nothing!!! Well, it's not near as awful as I expected it to be. And--it left my mouth feeling SUPER fresh after the oil, and my teeth feeling SUPER clean! Now here's the strange thing--I have one loose tooth, that oil swishing and Dr. Schulze's tooth and gum formula have not tightened up--but 3 days of soap brushing and I can already feel a difference in the tightness of the tooth!!! How weird is that? But it's incentive enough for me to keep using the dove. Samala Renee ---- Ieneke van Houten 11/1/2006 6:28:58 PM (AT) (DOT) Com Oil pulling question I finally overcame my disgust and tried it Yesterday, with good sesame oil. Yuck, but the prospect of white teeth is Incentive enough to make me persevere. On a good day I stumble out of bed between 6 and 6.30 and hit the yoga mat first thing, Or it won't get done. By the time that's done My DH has the coffee ready, and I am ready For it and for food. So I did the pulling thing late in the afternoon, About 3 hours after lunch. Is that good enough, empty-stomach-wise? Ien in the Kootenays ************************** Stop. Breathe. Smile! ~Padma ( my TV yoga teacher) http://freegreenliving.Com ************************** Quote
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