Oil Pulling

Aajonus connected oil pulling to a Russian technique for detoxing metals from the brain and head. The method as he described it involves placing oil in the mouth and swishing it around, with the mechanism being that the oil attracts metals and other toxins out through the gums and oral tissues. He described this as a recognized detoxification method for the brain and the surrounding tissues of the head.

His personal validation of this technique came from laboratory analysis. He took the same oil, sent a portion to the lab as a control, swirled another portion in his mouth, expectorated it, and sent that to the same lab. The discarded oil that had been swirled in his mouth contained a very high concentration of toxins that were not present in the unswirled control oil. He stated this clearly as the only reason he agreed with the practice. Without that confirmation, his general framework around pressed oils would have led him to be skeptical of any health claim made for them.

Aajonus made a clear distinction between the two oils most commonly used for oil pulling. He had personally used both olive oil and coconut oil for this purpose, and he described different outcomes for each.

Olive oil, even stone-pressed olive oil, caused soreness in his mouth due to its acidity. He noted that if olive oil pulling were done every day, it might cause soreness in the gums and oral tissues over time because of the acrid and acidic nature of olive oil. He stated that olive oil is not soothing and that its acidity poses a real problem for oral tissues when used repeatedly as a swishing medium.

Coconut oil, by contrast, he described as something that could be used every day indefinitely without causing harm. He stated that coconut oil is not acidic, that it is alkalizing, and that this quality makes it safe for regular use in the mouth without producing the tissue irritation that olive oil creates. He said explicitly that with coconut oil, you could do it every day forever and it would not hurt you. This made coconut oil his strongly preferred medium for oil pulling, with olive oil acknowledged as effective but with the caveat that daily use might damage oral tissues.

He also mentioned coconut cream as an alternative pulling medium. In at least one context he described pulling with cheese as well, where he would get cheese melted and liquidy in his mouth and hold it, then spit it out after about five minutes. In that same context he indicated coconut cream pulling would work for clearing dental injection residue such as novocaine from the body, stating "it would definitely help" and "absolutely help."

Aajonus described oil pulling as best done first thing in the morning, ideally before eating anything else, or at a minimum on an empty stomach. He described the sequence as doing the pulling first, then eating. He specified that pulling should be done before high meat or eggs are consumed in the morning, suggesting the pulling first is the appropriate starting point.

In the context of cheese pulling, he described a more layered protocol: pull with cheese first, spit it out after about five minutes, then eat an egg or a little cheese and an egg or two, then return to cheese pulling. The oil or cream pulling in this protocol was positioned as the preparatory step before consuming foods that would support digestion or neurological function.

He indicated the duration of swishing as approximately five minutes in some descriptions, though the traditional oil pulling protocol he referenced involved twenty minutes of swishing on an empty stomach. In the question-and-answer source he acknowledged hearing of the twenty-minute swishing protocol. His own practice as described in workshop transcripts appeared to involve shorter durations, at least in the cheese-pulling variant where he specified about five minutes before spitting.

The oil or cream is not swallowed. Expectoration is the point. Whatever toxins have been drawn into the oil through the mucous membranes and gum tissues are removed from the body when the oil is spit out. Swallowing the oil after pulling would reintroduce those toxins.

Aajonus described using oil pulling in the context of having an abscess, and stated that it worked for that purpose. He confirmed that the pulling helped draw material out when he had an abscess. This is consistent with his general description of the mechanism, in which the oil draws poisons and toxic accumulation out through the gum and oral tissues.

He also referenced the practice in relation to clearing dental injection residue. When someone described numbness and symptoms following dental injections involving novocaine, he said that coconut cream pulling would definitely help clear that substance from the system. He positioned this as an active protocol for addressing chemical contamination introduced through dental work.

His description of the oil attracting metals out of the brain through the gums is mechanistically important in his framework. The brain, in his understanding, accumulates toxins and metals, and the gums function as a pathway through which those toxins can be drawn out when the appropriate medium is held in contact with the oral tissues.

Aajonus was detailed about why olive oil is problematic even in the context of pulling. He described olive oil as highly acidic, and the acidity as the mechanism by which it causes soreness in the gums and soft tissues of the mouth. He noted that in his own experience pulling with stone-pressed olive oil, which is his only acceptable form of olive oil, the acidity still produced oral soreness when used in this manner. He extrapolated that daily use of olive oil for pulling would likely cause cumulative damage to the gums and tissues, even though a single session helped with his abscess.

This distinction is important because the oil pulling tradition, as it entered mainstream awareness, typically specified sesame oil or sunflower oil as the medium. Aajonus did not endorse sesame oil for this purpose. He stated that sesame oil cannot be cold-pressed below 160 degrees, making it categorically unacceptable in his framework regardless of its intended application. He also did not endorse sunflower oil. His approved options were coconut oil and, with the acidic caveat, olive oil.

Aajonus held that pressed oils as a category are approximately 90 percent solvent-reactive in the body. This means the body uses them primarily as cleansing agents, dissolving toxins, adhesions, dead cells, and congestion rather than building or lubricating tissue. He stated that pressed oils are not stabilizing, not nourishing in the structural sense, and can cause drying of the glands, skin, and tissues when consumed in excess. He recommended no more than one tablespoon of pressed oil per day consumed internally, or up to four to eight tablespoons in a specific sauce, followed by four days without pressed oils to allow the body to process what it received.

Oil pulling sits outside this dietary consumption framework because the oil is not swallowed. The pulling practice extracts the solvent-reactive capacity of the oil in an external interface with the body, at the oral mucosa and gum tissues, and then removes that oil before it can enter the digestive system and begin cleansing the body from within. This is why Aajonus could approve of oil pulling even while cautioning heavily against overconsumption of pressed oils. The mechanism of benefit is the same in both cases, the oil acts as a solvent drawing toxins out, but the oil pulling method removes the oil and its collected toxins before they circulate further in the body.

Aajonus described coconut cream as a preferable pulling medium in multiple contexts. He described pulling with coconut cream specifically in relation to addressing dental injection residue and described it as something anyone could do. He also noted his own preference for the coconut cream and butter combination as a method for detoxing metals from the brain, describing it as preferable to the Russian metal-pulling oil technique because it is not uncomfortable in the same way. He said that the oil-based Russian method tends to remove mucus from the gum surfaces, making them sensitive, and can cause the tongue to open and blister. The coconut cream method, being less acrid and more soothing, produces the pulling benefit without the discomfort.

When asked about oil pulling in a 2007 written correspondence, Aajonus expressed qualified skepticism before his own laboratory testing had confirmed the mechanism. He stated that to know whether oil pulling actually draws toxins out, someone would need to have the oil analyzed for toxins before and after swishing. He had seen no such tests at that time. His later workshop statements indicate he subsequently conducted exactly this kind of comparative analysis himself, and the results shifted him toward endorsing the practice. This sequence of skepticism followed by personal empirical verification is consistent with how he approached many practices within his framework.

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