Dulcolax VS Castor Oil

Could someone who has experience with both Dulcolax tablets and castor oil comment on the compared effectiveness and the feelings 15mg Dulcolax produce VS about 30-60ml of castor oil (as I've read more than about 30ml cannot be converted into the active component during one session anyway, but that's not important here).

The main thing I'm interested in is if you perceive the effectiveness of one of the two to be significantly higher in each volume, urgency/irresistability and/or duration.

60ml Castor oil is about the same as 30mg Dulcolax® (The dose intended to completely empty the bowels). The castor oil works faster and in my experience produces more cramps and urgency. Dulcolax is a lot easier to take. Both will make you 'squeaky clean' inside and can produce great urgency. I just find the Dulcolax experience to be more unpleasant.

I agree with matheww50 except on one point. Castor Oil has a flavor which is highly objectionable to many folks and it can give some "Castor Oil Burps" for hours. Dulcolax works well if not quite as rapidly. Where the Castor Oil starts producing movements in two to three hours Dulcolax takes about six hours to kick in, but then it really kicks. Most folks have several large loose movements from a dose of 60cc of Castor Oil where 30mg of Dulcolax usually produces one or two very violent movements. Dulcolax also leaves some folks with a very irritated anus.

My experience has been that 15 mg of Dulcolax taken at 9 pm. will make me have 4 or 5 urgent, very watery movements all through the next morning starting around 7 am. 30 mL of Castor Oil taken at 9 pm. will produce a cramping bellyache followed by an huge, extremely urgent, soft, yellow coloured, burning movement around 7 am, and 1 or 2 smaller but similar movements during the morning. I have no problem taking Dulcolax, but Castor Oil has a horrible, nauseating taste.

Why are we talking about oral laxatives in a thread for enema recipes and solutions?

Both work but I have only found one bottle of castor oil that was surprisingly taste free.

The others taste horrible and seeming no matter what I take with it orange juice you get the oil burps for hours .

Oil 2-3 hours do good job ducolax much more variable or maybe I should up the dose.

I have also used picolax just one sachet the recommended is both about 6 hrs apart.

From the time you take it do NOT go more than 50 feet from your toilet . Its effect is total !! Xx

Castor oil has always worked for me although I don't like taking it. A 2 oz dose taken with orange juice will almost always take effect within 3 hours. This is then followed by a series of 2, 2 qt soapsuds enemas followed by a rinse enema. Very seldom would a person not be completely cleaned out by then.

The best way to take castor oil that I have found, recommended in an old nursing handbook, is mixed with glycerine, cocoa powder, and optionally a little cinnamon! The glycerine completely removes the unpleasant oily feel, and the cocoa effectively masks the taste.

I use dolcolax I think it works Better Alittle more cramps but cleans better

So it seems regarding speed Castor oil is faster and urgency/efficiency is different from person to person so far 😃

The essential difference in moving the bowels by taking Dulcolax tablets or by swallowing a good dose Castor Oil exists in the fact that the Dulcolax tablets will work exclusively in the colon, but Castor Oil will cleanse your bowels totally from the duodenum to the colon.

They are not mutually exclusive. Dulcolax, and 4-6 hours later castor oil on an empty stomach should be effective.

Sometimes I done the following: at bedtime (around midnight), 4 ou 5 Dulcolax tablets (5mg each). Of course I only do this when I know I don't have to leave home on the next day (weekend for example), but even so I can't sleep till late because around 7 a.m. or a little less I wake up with the feeling of gas moving inside of me. Half a hour later, I usually start to feel some cramps with little or no pain, which from this point on start to increase. Around no more than one hour later is the total blast.

Lisa K

What time do you take the Dulcolax at how many? What time do you take the Castor Oil? Do you take any enemas in conjunction with this? Thanks.

Janet S

The most efficient manner for a good bowel cleansing is the following one: A big spoon of the carving set contains about 1/2 oz. Fill this spoon with Castor Oil, take this in your mouth and mix this there with your saliva for 10 minutes. There, the Castor Oil will be pre-digested and after this time you will be able to swallow the pre-digested Castor Oil without any problems. In repeating this procedure three times, you will have swallowed about 2 oz Castor Oil totally. In weighing the bottle Castor Oil before the first filling of the spoon and later after the last filling of the spoon you will be able to determine the total dose Castor Oil, this exactly. - One to two hours after having swallowed the the first spoon Castor Oil the defecation will beginn. Good luck!

I guess I'll just have to try sometime for myself to find out if I'll see much difference between the two 😃

Dlboy, just be ready when these products kick in. Castor oil will give a warning of a very strong cramping urge. Dulcolax in a dose of 20-30 mg gives almost no warning, have the seat down and shorts off!

I'll rather have diapers on 😉 And with Dulcolax I got some cramping before the main messing, but haven't gotten castor oil yet.

To Janet S You want to take the Dulcolax on an empty stomach about 3-4 hours before the castor oil. Don't eat between. How many Dulcolax depends on what you are doing. A thorough cleanout requires 4-6. An ordinary emptying 2-3.

You can take an enema 1-2 hours after the Dulcolax.

In taking some Dulcolax pills you will have to calculate a paralysis of the colon, in swallowing a good dose Castor Oil this will never happen.

There was a head of surgery at Ohio State Med. College who made every one of his residents/interns swallow a full dose of castor oil. After that he would say, "After this you will NEVER" prescribe castor oil for any of your patients again."

Castor oil IS faster. Dulcolax is technically more powerful.

Well I tried about 30ml of castor oil today, and compared to Dulcolax it might be a bit faster (but not too much in my case, maybe 2h faster). And I got increasingly stronger waves of urgency over about 2h maybe. I got only one big movement so far whereas with Dulcolax I often got one weak and one very strong later on; only had a few small leaks afterwards. I think the urge from the castor got stronger than when I mess from the first Dulcolax wave, but I think the second one I normally get from Dulcolax is more powerful.

So from the forced messing point I think both are fun, although I still prefer enemas 😉

An alternative in swallowing a good dose Castor Oil: Early in the morning, not having breakfasted, take 1 oz Castor Oil in your mouth and mix this there with your saliva for 15 minutes before swallowing the pre-digested Castor Oil without any problems concerning the taste or the viscosity. Repeat this once and you will have swallowed 2 oz Castor Oil totally, the recommended dose for adults. One hour later the bowel movement will begin.

I love enemas. I love giving enemas. I love being given enemas. Little does more to intensify an orgasm than a big bag of very soapy water.

But I got my first dose of castor oil in 20+ years last week, and it wasn't nearly as bad as I remembered.

I always keep castor oil around. I've found it an effective punishment, and not something that the recipient wanted to repeat anytime soon. Usual punitive dose is 4 tablespoons, which seems sufficient. I've seen genuine tears at being told to go get the castor oil bottle.

Anyway, I got involved in one of those fact based arguments that turned nasty and ended up with "want to bet?" And, the bet ended up being 10 minutes of hairbrush and 8 tablespoons of castor oil. And, I was proven wrong.

Angry hair brush can be nearly unbearable, but it was the castor oil I was dreading. And it turned out to be no biggie. Ended up with a bit of uncontrollable having to go, but no cramping, no real unpleasantness. 8 tablespoons was the number we settled on because it was double the standard punitive dose we use.

Not complaining, of course. But odd.

I have taken castor oil and Dulcolax at different times as a prep for a thorough cleaning out. I have taken 20mg of Dulcolax or 60ml of castor oil. Both laxatives work well, but the Ducolax will continue to work for up to 24 hours. With the Ducolax, I continue to have clear bowel movements after I am thoroughly clean. Once the castor oil is done, the effects don't continue.

I like to take two bisacodyl suppositories, then take 6 bisacodyl tablets. Then a few hours later about 30 ml of castor oil - It is the most through cleanout I have experienced. When I run clear I like to run in a nice warm 1 or 2 L enema with a teaspoon or so of Dr. Bronners peppermint soap, for a nice whole body minty experience! This is best done on a weekend or when you have at least a day to play and most of a day to firm up!

Ricini: I really wonder how anyone could hold castor oil in the mouth for 10-15 minutes. I take castor oil from time to time, and I can't imagine that. If the purpose is to help avoid the unpleasant viscosity of the oil in swallowing, I would think this would be counterproductive, since the viscous oil would be in the mouth so long, rather than simply being swallowed.

I didn't know they were mutually exclusive.

Legato:

Indeed, for me it is really no problem to hold 1 oz Castor Oil for 15 minutes in my mouth in order to mix this there with my saliva. During this time you will neither remark there the bad taste of Castor Oil, for the nerves concerning the taste are not in the mouth but near the throat, nor something of the unpleasant viscosity. After 15 minutes you will not have any problems to swallow the pre-treated Castor Oil. I know from other persons which will take Castor Oil in this manner too, this with the best experiences.