What is Castor Oil and what are the health benefits?
Since the beginning of time, folk healers worldwide have used Castor oil to treat a variety of health conditions. Including hair and skin care. First of all, it is a vegetable oil with many health benefits. It also has various therapeutic properties.
Pressing castor seeds extracts this pale-yellow oil. The plant has a distinctive scent and flavour that’s a bit like nuts, smoke, and tree resin, depending on the type you buy. And Castor oil is tasteless and odourless. Furthermore, it’s extracted by pressing castor plant seeds and is a triglyceride oil that is composed of fatty acids, 90% of which is ricinoleic acid. Especially relevant, Dr Mercola, Health Researcher, states that this acid is the primary healing ingredient of castor oil.
Castor oil support our immune system
According to Dr Axe, Medical Researcher and natural remedy expert it has an even more critical use for supporting the immune system. He says that research shows this oil is capable of increasing white blood cells and the count of T-11 cells. Within the lymphocytes system, these cells are produced and they help kill viruses, fungi, bacteria and cancer cells.
“Effective in preventing the growth of numerous species of viruses, bacteria, yeasts and moulds. It’s successful as a topical treatment for ringworm, keratoses, skin inflammation, abrasions, fungal-infected [fingers] and toenails, acne and chronic pruritus (itching).
“The most efficient uses are castor oil packs or poultices, which increase topical absorption. And when used correctly castor oil packs improve the function of the thymus gland and other immune system functions,” David Willams — Medical Researcher
Castor oil is a purgative medicine
Secondly, in the last century, castor oil was used extensively as a purgative and as a medicine for almost all ailments; ranging from colds, coughs, fevers, indigestion, tape worms, rountape worms. Because the idea was that disease started in the digestive system and that after a thorough cleansing of the system, problems would disappear.
Also, Castor oil has been used widely for commercial and non-commercial purposes. It’s a favoured ingredient often used in manufacturing cosmetic and beauty products. So, apart from cosmetics, castor oil is also used to make industrial fluids like lubricants, hydraulic brake fluids, paint coatings, inks, wax and polishes, cold resistant plastics, pharmaceutical products, perfumes, etc.
Switching to all-natural ingredients in health and beauty care
According to the David Suzuki Foundation, a science-based environmental organisation headquartered in Vancouver, 1 in 8 of the 82.000 ingredients used in health and beauty care products are industrial chemicals.
As a result, unless you want to absorb carcinogens, pesticides, reproductive toxins and hormone disruptors daily, it’s important to remember that natural is the KEY!
And as you can imagine, industrial chemicals harm the environment and alter your health as well. Most noteworthy, these chemicals lead to autoimmune diseases caused by inflammation in the body. Nature provides us with many wonderful raw oils. Since many kinds of butter are also beneficial to your skin and hair, you don’t necessarily need to expose yourself to harmful, toxic ingredients.
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