Oil pulling

The oil treatment (also oil pulling, oil eyes or oil chewing) is an alternative medicine Ayurveda method, in which the mouth is rinsed with vegetable oils. This is to avoid the toxins and mouth to cure or alleviate many diseases. The method is mentioned frequently in magazines and web forums, because it is feasible reasonably priced and no special skills at home.

A large-scale evidence of a positive effect is not present. This is mainly due to a lack of relevant studies. Were known, inter alia, Studies on Meenakshi Ammal Dental College, Chennai and at the PG Department of Microbiology, VHNSN College, Virudhunagar - both in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu - which among other things, a significant efficacy of the oil treatment prove to Streptococcus mutans and Lactobacillus acidophilus. Both studies used sesame oil. A number of international studies also relate to the antibiotic effect of vegetable oils in general.

The circulating on the German-speaking treatment recommendations can be applied to two articles in the journals Nature & Healing (Author: Günther W. Frank) trace and nature and medicine in 1991. Both articles refer to a Ukrainian doctor named Fedor Karach, which is said to have presented the method on a supposed " All- Ukrainian Congress of oncologists and bacteriologists ". Karach turn the oil treatment had taken of Siberian shamans. Exact time and source information are lacking, citable publications of a doctor Karach are not available.

In the oil treatment is to add a tablespoon of cold-pressed sunflower oil for about ten to 20 minutes slowly moved back and forth in the mouth and be pulled through between the teeth. This oil is then spat out and the mouth should be rinsed out with water. The whole should be done according to the recommendations preferably in the morning about eight to 14 days. Olive oil, sesame oil and other various vegetable oils have been recommended by other sources.

The underlying disease model, after " poisons" and " slag " in the body accumulate, which would have to be removed, has been abandoned by medicine since the 18th century; However, in alternative medicine, it is still very common ( cf. detoxifying process, Ayurveda, humoral pathology ).

The " purification" is recommended against, among others headache, toothache, skin problems ( eczema), rheumatism, arthritis, bubble suffering kidney disease. According to the recommendations, it is important that the oil is not swallowed after rinsing because it is loaded with toxins and bacteria. It should also be to use cold-pressed or cold- beaten oil.

One can compare the effect with based on oil mouth wash liquids such as Dentyl Ph.