Oil Pulling

When I first heard of this, I thought it was bizarre  Finally I decided to give it a go when I found coconut oil for a reasonable price at Trader Joe's.

The concept is simple and outlined on a multitude of sites. You simply swish a vegetable oil in your mouth for 20 minutes.

The idea behind it is that it helps to pull out toxins, whitens teeth, helps with sinuses. I have found it to particularly help with the later.

When I feel congestion forming, especially in my sinuses, I pull out that jar of coconut oil. Since I don't want to deal with it in solid form (personal preference, even though it will melt in your mouth), I put about 2 tablespoons of oil in a small ceramic bowl and microwave it for a few seconds to melt it. This worked well in its base form.

Then I ran across a list of EO additions from Camp Wander that can target specific issues.

Let me tell you the wonders of adding a drop of Melaleuca to the coconut oil! Wow! At the least notice of a problem I do the oil pulling for a couple of days in a row and I'm fine - no congestion sets in, no sinus infection, most importantly - no sinus headaches.