The amazing benefits of Castor oil!
Castor oil offers enormous amount of health benefits. It has been used as wonder remedy for many maladies that affect the functioning of the stomach and guts. Traditionally castor oil has been used as gut and stomach cleansing material.
Consumption of castor oil has been a panacea for curing constipation. It has been in use for its wonderful medicinal properties. The viscosity of castor oil could be a little allergic for some but that is not in any way harmful.
While discussing about the wonderful benefits of castor we need to know about the goodness of other edible oils that have been traditionally in use as well. The oil extracted from groundnut, the oil extracted from sesame seeds called as gingelly oil, mustard oil, coconut oil and rice bran oil main edible oil that were in use.
But now the refined oil culture has set in changing our age old healthy practice. Sunflower seed oil is the widely used oil now. This oil does not contain as much good cholesterol that the oil traditionally used oils do. This awareness has been spreading now among the people for good.
While the other plant based oils lack in density the oil extracted from castor has high in density. The castor oil is totally devoid of any toxicity. There are three types of castor oil one is extracted from the seeds of castor plant without any processing. This type is yellowish is color and is called organic castor oil.
The second variety of castor oil is extracted from the roasted castor seeds. This is a type of processed castor oil is dark in color and would smell the scent of castor. But helps to keep the skin glowing and helps in containing acne and pimples
The third variety of castor oil is hydrogenated one and it is used exclusively in the production of cosmetic things only. It is a hard and dense oil. The castor oil is a wonder laxative that has been used traditionally for the purpose of cleaning the stomach and digestive system and helps to get rid of constipation.
The castor oil is consumed early in the morning in empty stomach mixed with water. Five to ten drops of castor oil needs to be mixed in quarter tumbler of water. This cleanses the stomach and intestines, gets rid of all toxins and eliminate the worms in the gut.
It was being used in various ways in the day to day life of our ancestors. Consuming bananas dipped and soaked in castor oil was also prevalent in traditional societies. This apart this oil was being used as an edible oile widely in seasoning of cooking ingredients.
Similarly castor oil is used an excellent agent and used in a mix along with flour of moong dal as face massaging pack. This helps to give refreshing facial looks. Castor oil is a coolant of the body and can be used frequently during hot summer days.
Thus the Castor oil offers a lot of health benefits and skin beautifying qualities in particular apart from being and excellent organic laxative and stomach cleaner. Let us get back to our healthy traditional ways of health care and start using oils like Castor oil in our day to day life!
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