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Hi Eagle Red, i have not compared sunflower to olive oil myself but the information came from a Naturpathic Doctor who is a friend of mine who always recomends olive oil for this exercise and he has good feedback from his clients.
There are very few actual references to this old folklore remedy to be found but he got his information from an old  herbal folklore book which called for olive oil.
It has been referred to as Russian oil pulling therapy so i guess it may have originated in this region.
http://bhojraj.tripod.com/russian.html

Could well be sunflower is the best to use but IMO its the actual process of oil pulling mixed with saliva that is the key to this old folklore remedy and they would have used whatever  oil was at hand IMO.
Mt wife and i have been doing it for 8 or 9  days now and i am convinced the olive oil is pulling toxins as i spat some on my lawn, my friend said if it contains enough toxins it will kill the grass and it did. We also feel much better and seem to have more energy.
If we had not felt any improvements we would have switched to sunflower in a shot and we will be trying it with sunflower oil when i get round to buying some.
Thanks for trying to put me on the right path though
all the best
BD

You know, after I get back home and get settled back in again, I'm going to give this a go.   It can't hurt, that's for sure.   When I first saw this thread I skipped it, thinking it was bunk.  But then I was finally tugged to look closer at it and became intrigued.   Now, I plan to buy some Sunflower oil, see what happens.

In these times, with whatever lies ahead, we could use all the help we can get!    I figure that among sunflower oil, colloidal silver, garlic, cayenne, Black Walnut hulls, etc. and so on and all the other great herbal remedies for microbes, fungus, bacteria and parasites, we should be covered for whatever comes at us.

I just bought some and have used it once so far. I felt like I had a mouth full of automatic transmission fluid for twenty minutes.

I have had a cold for a week. My sinuses were completey clear for half an hour around the time I used it and have not otherwise been so for the last week. I also felt buzzy and ligher at the time I was 'using'.

Definitely going to keep going with it =]

Tried to find some cold-pressed sunflower oil in the store today, but they only had "high heat" sunflower oil. Guess I'll have to order on-line.

Here's a decent FAQ about "oil pulling" therapy:

http://www.oilpulling.com

Lyra, hello once again, I feel you may be putting a little excessive energy into the exercise.
   When I take the oil I do it the moment I rise in the morning, then I do a few yoga stretches, maybe meditate for 15 minutes and all the while the oil is in my mouth I am barely aware of it but I am all the time gently moving it around my mouth.
   I am thrilled that you are trying this, Bravo! and you also Neo.

So which is it, cold-pressed or refined?

i thought I read somewhere on this thread that the oil should be cold-pressed? The FAQ indicates it should be refined. I'll have to do a thorough Google... The FAQ also says that you should do the OP for 15 minutes while sitting straight up and thinking of nothing but the oil pulling. I think a lot of my health issues would up and disappear if I had an effective meditation first thing EVERY morning