Oil Pulling

[billydkid]

Have any of you ever heard of this? It sound like so much horses**t. Apparently you fill your mouth with various sorts of vegetable oils, swish it around and spit it out. It is supposed to remove "toxins" from the body.

[fuelair]

Why yes, yes it is horses**t - and get that stuff out of your mouth NOW young man!!! (Coffee enemas are what remove toxins from your body - Starbucks Latte particularly I am told!!)

[Minarvia]

Have any of you ever heard of this? It sound like so much horses**t. Apparently you fill your mouth with various sorts of vegetable oils, swish it around and spit it out. It is supposed to remove "toxins" from the body.

Heh! Kind of reminds me of "candling." That is horses**t, too!

[TriangleMan]

Have any of you ever heard of this? It sound like so much horses**t. Apparently you fill your mouth with various sorts of vegetable oils, swish it around and spit it out. It is supposed to remove "toxins" from the body.
I'd consider things like this worth a brief look if proponents would ever list what these apparant "toxins" are. No one ever says what they specifically are, just "toxins". Of course I think it's because if they were to actually specify the toxins it would quickly be pointed out how ludicrous it would be to try to remove them by swishing vegetable oil in your mouth.

[Verde]

Apparently you fill your mouth with various sorts of vegetable oils, swish it around and spit it out. It is supposed to remove "toxins" from the body.

(Coffee enemas are what remove toxins from your body - Starbucks Latte particularly I am told!!)

Heh! Kind of reminds me of "candling."

That conjures up an interesting approach. A vegetable oil and coffee enema, followed by anal candling. Should remove all sorts of toxins, amongst other things.

I'll suggest it to the crowd, next time I wander up to Sedona.

[billydkid]

That conjures up an interesting approach. A vegetable oil and coffee enema, followed by anal candling. Should remove all sorts of toxins, amongst other things.

I'll suggest it to the crowd, next time I wander up to Sedona.


ROTF-anal candling!!! Can't wait to try that. Conjures up some pretty lovely images.

[zooloo]

That conjures up an interesting approach. A vegetable oil and coffee enema, followed by anal candling. Should remove all sorts of toxins, amongst other things.

I'll suggest it to the crowd, next time I wander up to Sedona.

You'd probably feel better when it stopped :rolleyes: and effective enough that you'd never go back.

[CynicalSkeptic]

ROTF-anal candling!!! Can't wait to try that. Conjures up some pretty lovely images.

Regretably (or perhaps not), Google Image search does not pull up any images with that search string....


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though if you change it to anal candle...

[rjh01]

ROTF-anal candling!!! Can't wait to try that. Conjures up some pretty lovely images.

I did a google on "anal candling" and got one reference. Very funny.
http://www.miaowthecat.com/archives/2005/01/01/bring-it-on-2005/


All around Byron and the hinterland are little hippy enclaves with a shop or a gallery or both. The windows of these places are often noticeboards for ‘Crystal Healing’ or ‘Women’s Worship Night - Bring a Plate, a Bead and Some Karma’ or ‘Support Group for Lactose Intolerant Gay Whales’. Things like that. This began to irk I., our host. So he decided, without informing his partner (he forgot) to put up a fake ad. It was for a course of Anal Candling (as an accompanying product to ear candling (http://www.hemp-ear-candles.com/)). I didn’t get the whole story, but it included recommendations from a famous Indian author; it said it would be fully cleansing, and only cost a few thousand dollars. People actually called him up about it.


PS If you ever try this make sure the person does not fart (http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?p=2228023#post2228023).

Edit. Warning: Doing a google on "anal candle" is VERY unsafe for work. Very unsafe with a spouse nearby.

[MortFurd]

Edit. Warning: Doing a google on "anal candle" is VERY unsafe for work. Very unsafe with a spouse nearby.
No sh**, Sherlock.

[rjh01]

If a subject is less realistic than Star Trek or Dr Who then I find it boring and I am not interested in the subject. One such subject is what I found when I did the search.

As far as I am concerned it is just another woo subject.

[Geckko]

As the Mother Superior said to the nuns:

"Lights out by 9 ladies, candles out by 10"