Giving Castor Oil for punishment

Lynn

Exactly this is well known: In the beginning of an illness - especially in the case of an influenza - it is the best to take immediately a good dose castor oil (= 2 oz) and the next day in the morning to give a high enema. In this manner an illness will end much quicker.

Taking castor oil or enemas to diminish an illness has no basis in fact. To think so is just wishful thinking. It may be well known in anecdotal thought but has no basis in reality. Viral illnesses infect all tissues in the body. There are usually inoculated in the eye or the nasal or oral pharynx. How can laxatives help this?

Liquidsky

You are wrong for I know upon this from a German doctor and professor:

- Alfred Brauchle: Naturheilkunde des praktischen Arztes. Band I: Vorlesungen über allgemeine Naturheilkunde - 3. verbesserte Auflage / Stuttgart: Hippokrates-Verlag Marquardt & Cie., 1951.

- Alfred Brauchle: Naturheilkunde des praktischen Arztes. Band II: Die zehn wichtigsten Anwendungen aus der Naturheilkunde für den praktischen Arzt / Stuttgart: Hippokrates-Verlag Marquardt & Cie., 1953.

Sorry Ricini but I am current in such matters since I'm a physician. There is no credible evidence that laxatives can alter viral infections. Besides the articles you quote are sixty years out of date. ???

I was given castor oil the night before or in the morning if I was sick, then given enemas or olive oil high enema then put back to bed.

Then soap suds enemas and a rinse. My illness ended much quicker for sure

An olive oil high enema?

The ingredients for that must have cost at least $25 for a two quart enema and a high enema would likely be somewhat more!

Who in the world wants to clean the bag, hose, nozzle and toilet after all that oil goes down.Remember oil floats, so that's going to make a real mess.

Liquidsly

This winter here in Europe we had a severe form of an influenza with a lot of dead men and women; any form of a vaccination against an influenza did not help. In the critical time of the risk of infection Monday, Wednesday and Friday were for me the Castor Oil Days - so I have survived this without any problems.

Sorry again but that's anecdotal evidence. A double blind study would be required to establish causality. Such studies have revealed no such causality. If it makes you feel better please feel free. Just don't preach to others about dubious facts.

Liquidsky

Than I shall give you another title upon this subject whre this is confirmed:

Dr. med. Werner Tiegel: Naturheilanwendungen zu Hause - 2. Aufl. / Mannheim: Verlagsgenossenschaft der Waerland-Bewegung EGmbH, 1968.

Http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/04/28/castor-oil-to-treat-health-conditions.aspx

This is an article which I found extolling the virtues of castor oil. I am unable to read German so I wasn't able to examine your article. This article claims that castor oil has all sorts of benefits--helping to treat back pain and so on. It also says that castor oil can be used to stimulate the immune system and act as a chemotherapy agent for treating cancer. It is recommended that it be used as a topical pack not in a laxative form. It specifically says to avoid the laxative form of this substance. It is to be noted that this article is in an alternative journal and not an accredited medical journal. It is thus not backed by the scientific method. I simply question it's methodology. Unless the article is subject to the scientific method and peer review it is not in my mind a creditable source of knowledge. I really did try to find a believable article on this subject. Sadly such a work did not exist. Therefore I remain unconvinced. I am open to an article in English which is believable. This is not and thus is simply folk medicine. Ricini if castor oil helps you I can't argue with you about it. I wouldn't consider it efficacious for myself or any patient I treat.

Liquidsky

Remember the following facts:

- In swallowing a sufficient dose castor oil the entero-hepatic-circle will be interrupted.

- In repeating this, it is possible to cleanse the liver completely from all toxins.

- So this procedure is the most efficient manner to strengthen the immune system, this in order to avoid certain diseases like influenza..

- In excreating all the poisons deposed in the human body it is possible to cure any sorts of allergies.

I'm out of here. Sayonara!

I like the concept of 'bulking up' for maximum effect; eating a lot of beans works well, planning ahead with metamucil, etc. For the protocol, either dulcolax tabs (say, 4) or as in the discussion, castor oil works well. My main problem is that I eat so many whole grains and vegetables, I generally am normally fairly clear...

I believe the fascists under Mussolini used to give castor oil to prisoners and people they did not like all the time to humiliate them. It is quite effective for cleaning out a naughty miscreant top to bottom. If given first they will be pretty empty, by the time a few enemas are given on top of that, they will be squeaky clean!

My dad's mom would always put him and his two elder sisters through the regimen of giving them castor oil. For the purposes of regularity. To this day, he's been obsessive about this need, though no longer by the same means.

In posting 18 SwitchableSusie writes: "Mussolini used large doses of castor oil in WWII as a means of torture"

It is wrong, to speak from "large doses", for the dose generally given in Italy has been 75 ml (75 ml = 2 1/2 oz) - look at this text:

http://www.memorieincammino.it/ricercaAvanzata.aspx?idT=44

Have had before as punishment and it sucks and would just rather have a bar of soap in my mouth!

Happened upon this old discussion has me searching Amazon for Castor oil!

Tried it once and the results were a bit poor, possibly i didnt take enough, so next time i swallows a good mouthfull, this was on a sunday as i would be home all day near a toilet……..well a few hours went by, then i had a huge dump in the diaper i had on for safety, but that wasnt the end, i shit out liquid, much like an enema for rest of day , and on till half way through tuesday, so not happening again, maybe do it to hooligans etc, but not for fun punishments !

That sounds interesting, oh my

@49 , wish you were here ?

So I've tried this a few times and nothing really happened, other than a bad aftertaste and some gas. Maybe I wasn't given enough? Is there such thing as too much?

@kellirox

You can't overdose on Castor Oil. It needs to be digested to start working. When it does, any undigested oil is simply pood out and you can see it floating on the water in the toilet. (It's wasted)

The usual adult dose is about 2 oz (60 ml), best taken on an empty stomach for best results. Expect forced poos to start within a few hours.

As to the punishment factor, the taste is pretty objectionable. The taste can be improved by mixing with orange juice or coffee, or made worse by giving it to the recipient a spoonful at a time. A full adult dose is 4 tablespoons full and taking that is not pleasant. Have the recipient lick the spoon clean after each spoonful.

Then the real fun starts... waiting for the strong laxative effects to start and the recipient to lose all bowel control. The anticipation can be heigtened by going somewhere with no toilet access.

I got 2 oz bottle of a chocolaty castor oil (dont know the brand) in the hospital. My belly started gurgling within the hour and I was urgently pooping in about 2. I was pooping for an hr & a half. The nurse gave me a tube of diaper rash cream for use between poops.

My roommate could fear my belly Rumble from his bed. Bathroom results werecexplosive. That evening I got a large soapy enema. I don't think the soap did much to vlearvtheboil as the poops continued for most of the night. Got another enema at 4am.

I tried it multiple times. Never really had fun…

Here's my take on the matter: I recently started trying castor oil and had a hard time figuring out doses in ounces from ML. There is so much conflicting dosage information out there, I erred on the opposing side of caution. My calculations, according to 1 site, had my dose set at 5ounces. I can tell you for sure that taking 5 ounces of castor oil will have positive effects in about an hour. It will last a few hours with some residual effects later in the day. I think I'm going to try 2 ounces the next time to see how the effects go.

@DLSteve

An ounce is about 30 ml or 2 tablespoons.

2 oz or 60 ml should do it to any adult. As I've said before, anything more won't increase the laxative effects. The excess will simply be pood out and wind up floating in the toilet. You will see the droplets.

An added thought: A big part of giving/getting Castor Oil as part of a punishment is you both know exactly what is going to happen to the recipient… within a couple of hours they are going to completely lose all bowel control. And there is absolutely nothing they can do to alter that outcome. The more they try and resist the laxative effects, the more powerful they become. If the recipient can't get onto a toilet, their pants will soon be full of soft and loose poo no matte how strongly they try and ‘hold it’.

Of course, the give knows this and can plan to take the recipient to a place with no toilet access. It can be a total mind fuck… knowing you WILL poo you pants but not knowing when or where or how publicly. And everyone nearby will probably know what has just happened.

If memory serves and I just did a search but can not find the documentation, Castor oil is metabolized into glycerin in the gut thus causing the laxative effect.

Castor oil was the traditional home remedy for constipation. Punishment? Maybe.

When a kid was given a spoonful of Castor Oil, it was really only a mild punishment. Obviously the kid didn't much like the taste of the oil and probably didn't much like that the oil would force them to poo, but it's kinda what you get if you don't poo. Oil given… lesson leaned.

Castor Oil can be given in ways to make it much more disagreeable as I've described.