Castor Oil is the best laxative, in my opinion. Castor Oil which is used as a Laxative has a beneficial effect on the health, because castor oil has the ability to draw harmful toxins out of the liver, the gall bladder and other organs and tissues.
Whilst the Castor Oil Laxative is busy clearing the bowel of toxins, it is also acting as a healing agent on those weaker parts of the body. If you use the castor oil laxative regularly, in combination with a sensible and nutritious diet, minimise your stress and anxiety, and avoid exposure to chemicals, then I believe your immune system will benefit to help prevent your getting cancer and other disease.
Castor Oil when taken internally as a laxative treatment can help the eyesight. Castor oil can also be applied nightly to the eyes to help conditions like cataract and macular degeneration: just one drop of the oil is put into each eye before you go to sleep.
But here is the best way to use Castor Oil as a Laxative:

Breakfast First: Dr Max Gerson, who formulated a treatment for cancer using the castor oil laxative, believed that the treatment worked best when a good breakfast was eaten daily.. This was a large plate of oatmeal porridge, eaten with one large raw grated apple. No sugar or milk was added to this breakfast cereal: sugar and milk weaken the cleansing effect of the porridge which is followed two hours later, roughly, with the castor oil laxative. I add dates for extra sweetening, sesame seeds for calcium, and a knob of butter or a dash of ghee or olive oil to the porridge once it has been served.
At 10 AM you are ready to take the Castor Oil Laxative:
Take two tablespoons of Castor Oil, followed by a cup of black coffee which has been brewed. Do not use instant coffee, as this has preservatives and other unhealthy things in it. Real coffee grounds must be used either by making percolated coffee, or to make coffee which has been boiled on the stove. Do not add milk or sugar to the coffee – it is purely for medicinal purposes. If you have a bit of a coffee addiction, then the Castor Oil Laxative, followed by a cup of pure black coffee will surely put you off drinking so much coffee.
It is best to take this in the morning, although castor oil can be taken with good effect in the evening. Dr Gerson, who formulated a cancer treatment which used castor oil as an integral part of detoxifiction, recommended that castor oil be taken every second day at ten o’clock.
Enemas: Within five hours of taking the castor oil laxative, you must have an enema, or a colonic irrigation. Dr Gerson recommended this, and Walter Last who healed many people in Whangarei, New Zealand, also swore by the use of the enema in detoxifying. If you decide to skip the enema, you might feel very, very bad, as the castor oil attracts poisons from the liver which then have to travel through the bowel. If you don’t hurry up the process of elimination and wash away all these poisons, you can suffer from auto-intoxication, which can be very unpleasant and even dangerous, if your body is harbouring a life time of chemicals.

Indeed, Castor Oil is the best laxative, for:
- It works not directly but indirectly by activating and synthethizing several substances of the human body.
- So any form of habituation is excludet.
- In drawing toxins out of the liver you will lose all forms of allergies.
The most efficient form in taking Castor Oil is the following one:
- Early in the morning, not having breakfasted
- mix 2 oz Castor Oil together with fridged orange juice
and swallow this emulsion.
- 15 minutes later begin to sip hot water.
Normally, it will take 2…4 hours after having taken your dosage of Castor Oil for it to work.
Thankyou for your comment on castor oil Ricini. And thankyou for sharing your method of using it. The orange juice surely helps to lessen the unpleasant flavour of the castor oil. Readers will be interested in your recommendations.
Regards,
Merrilyn
It is better for the teeth to realize an emulsion of Castor Oil with fridged carrot juice instead of the orange juice.
The Russian popular medicine recommends the dosage of Castor Oil in the following manner: 1 ml per 1 kg of the weight of the human body (e. g. weight of the human body: 65 kg –> 65 ml Castor Oil).
This is quite a lot of castor oil – and you don’t say how often your medicine should be taken. I think that Dr Gerson’s method is a good yard-stick – two tablespoons every second day for serious illness such as cancer – For the purpose of helping tooth enamel regrow, I would use one or two tablespoons once a week – twice if you are following a diet similar to Gerson’s, which involves the taking of fresh vegetable juices every hour. If you are not taking optimum amounts of juices etc, then there is a danger that your body will become depleted of vitamins if you take castor oil too often. It works with a diet such as Gerson’s because all the vitamins washed away in detoxification are continually being replaced through juices. So once a week for castor oil would be a sensible recommendation for most people on fairly average diets.
Regards, Merrilyn
I agree: for most people once a week for Castor Oil is the best. After having taken Castor Oil for 19 years I have not remarked any form of depletion of vitamins.
My dermatologist had me given up with a severe form of a sunallergy; so I had to find one’s way out of this. After seven years and 225 applications of Castor Oil (30 ml = 1 oz) I have lost all my allergies totally, especially the sunnallergy too.
So prolonged use of castor oil cured your allergies? That’s great feedback Ricini. Really good to hear. Watch out though – We might have to defend our rights to use castor oil, as I think the drug companies may have a plan to stop us using this medicine. Will put up a post about this today.
Thanks so much for your comments. They will be encouraging to people.
Regards, Merrilyn
Ricini I do wonder about your name. Are you having us on? Because Ricin is the poison which is found in the castor oil plant – but not in the oil. Ricin from the untreated castor oil bean is very toxic, as I am sure you are already aware.
Regards, Merrilyn
Naturally I know upon this, but in the pharmacy the official name of Castor Oil is “Oleum Ricini”. From the second part of this designation I have chosen my name.
Thankyou for sharing that with us Ricini.
Regards, Merrilyn
You write: “We might have to defend our rights to use castor oil, as I think the drug companies may have a plan to stop us using this medicine.”
This will not be possible for Castor Oil is an essential substance in producing articles of the beauty culture. In purchasing a bottle of Castor Oil no one is forced to remark that he has the intention to gulp this liquid in order to move the bowels. You may say that this is for the beauty care; and indeed, in taking Castor Oil as a laxative your skin will become impeccable.
So, you are saying this is a bad thing to do if you do not clear it out with an enema or colonic irrigation?
Hi Leni – Castor oil has been used as a laxative for thousands of years, and is considered to be safe. Ayurvedic medicine has used castor oil for over 2000 years and still uses it to treat many different conditions. However, if you have a lot of toxins in your body from working in such things as paint factories, or with pesticides or other agricultural chemicals, or have been taking prescription drugs or recreational drugs,or using cosmetics such as hair dyes for many years, then you will have many more poisons in your body than a person would have had before these poisons were invented, say 200 years ago.
Doctor Gerson found that he was ‘losing’ many of his patients who were initially starting to recover from his cancer treatment, which included castor oil every second day. He came to the conclusion that the castor oil was bringing out large amounts of poisons from the liver, and that they were not being eliminated quickly enough, but were being reabsorbed in the intestines again. The raw food cleansing and castor oil was causing auto-intoxication from the sudden release of poisons which were being absorbed back into the blood stream, and these poisons were causing these sick people to die.
After Dr Max Gerson began using enemas with the castor oil as a treatment for cancer, most of his patients continued to improve. His success rate more than doubled after he used enemas with the castor oil treatment.
This is why it is recommended that an enema be taken, to be on the safe side. But a person who is not at death’s door, and who has not abused the body with poisons of various kinds, should be able to take castor oil without adverse effects. If castor oil makes you feel especially ill, then this is a sign, according to Dr Gerson, that the liver is overloaded with poisons, and that an enema should be taken. Once the liver starts to clear itself of poisons, then the nausea usually disappears when you take the castor oil. No nausea is a sign that your liver is becoming healthy again, and that it has detoxified itself.
I often take castor oil and do not use an enema. But years ago, when I was treating a breast lump, I HAD to use enemas as I felt so awful. But gradually I improved as I continued with the castor every 2nd day. After around three months, I stopped feeling ill, and the lump disappeared.
Hope this helps. If you are in doubt, or you have a chronic condition of ill health, then you should ask your naturopath or ayurvedic practioner or another professional health expert.
Regards, Merrilyn.
Indeed, you are right: “If castor oil makes you feel especially ill, then this is a sign, according to Dr Gerson, that the liver is overloaded with poisons, and that an enema should be taken. Once the liver starts to clear itself of poisons, then the nausea usually disappears when you take the castor oil. No nausea is a sign that your liver is becoming healthy again, and that it has detoxified itself.”
Think at this: In moving the bowels by swallowing a good dose of Castor Oil you will not only be able to eliminate the poisons in the liver but the heavy metals (especially mercury) deposed in the human body too. The primary cause auf Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease or multiple sclerosis is an intoxication with mercury.
Thank you so much! I wanted to be certain that I do this correctly. I’m excited to see the results and have a feeling that it can help me with a few of my issues!
Comment on castor oil to Leni from Georg alias Ricini,
Dear Leni,
You may be certain, that the best manner to stabilize the healthiness is the systematical detoxification of the human body in swallowing periodically an appropriated dose of Castor Oil.
Ricini/Georg Schwach.
Castor Oil As Anti-Cancer, Potent Detoxifying Treatment: Thankyou for your comment Ricini/Georg. It is good to have this information on the use and effectiveness of castor oil affirmed. Castor oil is a powerful detoxifyer, and is capable of drawing out heavy metals and other contaminants from the liver, the brain, and the other organs. It is one of the most powerful and effective healers of all natural medicines because of its detoxifying properties.
I just hope that Castor Oil continues to be available for us to use without a prescription.
I rank Comfrey as one of the top, valuable herbal medicines, as important as Castor Oil as a healer, but unfortunately, Comfrey has been banned in most countries, due to the drug companies’ greed in wanting control of this herb. This is to their advantage, as they now profit from marketing the same healing ingredients contained in Comfrey. Now we have to buy preparations of silica, and healing ointments containing allantoin, whereas before we all grew Comfrey in our gardens instead, and it was there whenever we needed it. For free.
Drug companies have been trying to patent another healing herb, Turmeric, which is commonly used in Indian cooking, and is a powerful anitoxidant and anti-cancer herb. They have been trying to control its use in India, where millions upon millions of people use it every day – To capture this market would be an unbelievable on-going profit for the giant pharmaceutical industry, to the detriment of the Indian people and their wonderful curry. So far, the drug giants haven’t succeeded in monolpolizing the sale of Turmeric. Forever may this continue to be so.
I hope that the public get cracking to campaign to have Comfrey brought back into the public domain, where it can be freely grown and used again.
Let’s hope they don’t take control of Castor Oil by making it a prescription medicine, and that this healing oil continues to be made freely available for use as an anti-cancer therapeutic.
Regards, Merrilyn.
Merrilyn, You write: “Dr Gerson, who formulated a cancer treatment which used castor oil as an integral part of detoxifiction, recommended that castor oil be taken every second day at ten o’clock.”
Are you experienced in taking Castor Oil every second day?
Hi Ricini/Georg – Yes, I DO have experience in using castor oil every second day to treat a chronic condition of ill health. I took castor oil every second day for a period of three months, using enemas, and mostly raw food, to get rid of a breast lump. This breast lump arrived within about three to four years after having been aerial sprayed by local farmers, whilst living in the Hokianga, with 245T which contains Dioxin. I think that this was one major catalyst in my developing a breast lump. We were reliant on the stream water for getting all our water, so poisoning from this herbicide continued for some time because of the run-off into the stream.
The castor oil treatment worked for me, in combination with a very strict diet. After three months of taking castor oil every second day, with other treatments, the breast lump had gone. I relaxed my detoxification measures, and the thing came back. So I continued with the castor oil again for about two or three months after the initial treatment. After six months,or slightly longer, the lump had gone completely, never to come back again.
Then, a few years later, after having poisoned myself from clearing a burnt-out house and section of asbestos and paints, plastics, and other hazardous material, I used castor oil again on a fairly regular basis. It took a long time to get well after this poisoning incident, but eventually, I made it. Obviously I should have known better than to deal with asbestos roofing and the toxic ash from the burnt house, but at least I DO have the experience of getting sick from it, and then recovering through diet, castor oil, and general detoxification. It is possible that others may be helped by my relating how castor oil, diet, meditation, etc, served to cure me of these conditions which had made me so very ill.
Regards, Merrilyn.
Congratulations to your consequent Castor Oil treatment. Im am experienced in taking Castor Oil on a regular bsasis too, this because of a severe multiple poisoning, e. g. mercury. I was poisoned in such a grave dimension, that from 1992 to 1997 I was able to take 1 oz Castor Oil once the month, 1998 this dose once the week, 1999 to 2002 two times the week, since 2003 three times the week. For a long time I had to take a dose of 1 oz, later I was able to raise to 1 1/2 oz. It is some years ago that I am able to take 2 oz Castor Oil.
Thank to this treatment I have lost all symptoms of a chronical mercury poisoning and at the same time I am free from all allergies, but I know, that I am obliged to continue in swallowing Castor Oil on a regular basis. On holiday I take a break in swallowing this stuff, but still I have a regular bowel movement without any problems.
I have had year round allergies for a few years now that make me really tired. Allergy medicine only makes me more tired. I finally broke down and got a nasal spray prescription, but I haven’t picked it up yet. I am on my second day of taking castor oil. In your opinion and research, should I wait to see if the castor oil helps this problem? Can I take it with the nasal spray?
Thanks for your information,
Leni
Comment from Ricini/Georg to Leni,
(note that Merrilyn does NOT advise anyone to take this much Castor oil – and not for an extended period. Unless you are advised by your naturopath or health professional, you should only take one or two tablespoons about once a week, or fortnightly, as a general preventative of disease)
Ricini/Georg says to Leni: in the case of my severe poisoning I had to take 1 oz Castor Oil 225 times, this in all for seven years, in order to get rid of a severe form of an allergy against the sunlight – this to my immense surprise.
Be patient with this!- Ricini/Georg
Hi Leni – You need to see your doctor or other health professional for advice on this.
I would recommend an alternative health specialist, such as an Ayurvedic practitioner, or a Classical Homeopath, Herbalist, or someone experienced in alternative medicine.
Regards,
Merrilyn
Merrlyn reminds readers that what works for one may not work for another. Castor oil is a great detoxifyer and healer, but the dose and the frequency of the dose would depend on the individual’s circumstances, the disease being treated, and the severity of the condition. Long standing illnesses such as cancer, which usually take years to develop, are more difficult to reverse. Degenerative disease and other chronic conditions may take a year or more of treatment using castor oil, diet, meditation and other detoxifying measures, before the illness is cured. Some people may not respond to this treatment anyway, if their ‘time is up’. Not everybody responds to natural therapy, or radiation or chemotherapy, for that matter.
It is advised that you SEE A HEALTH PROFESSIONAL for guidance on your treatment, especially if you have a chronic condition.
Regards,
Merrilyn.
Thanks Merrilyn! I do realize this and have set an appointment, I was just getting second opinions and educating myself by asking a few people. Your concern and information is appreciated!
Leni
Hi Leni – Just got your email saying that you made an appointment to see a health professional. That’s great.
Kind Regards,
Merrilyn.
Merrilyn writes: “Some people may not respond to this treatment anyway, if their ‘time is up’. Not everybody responds to natural therapy, or radiation or chemotherapy, for that matter. However, many people have reversed cancers and other diseases with castor oil and complementary treatments.
Remember TO SEE A HEALTH PROFESSIONAL for guidance on your treatment if you have a chronic condition.”
And what is the matter in the case of a disease, when the physician is at the end of his know-how and he will tell you indirectly that his medical assistance upon this disease is concluded? – Exactly this has been my situation in 1992.
Hi Ricini/Georg – I am with you on this. Better to try an alternative method ‘if your time is up’ and you have been abandoned by the doctors, rather than take their word for it, and do nothing.
Of course, I am an advocate for natural healing, and avoidance of prescription medicine – The holistic approach is one which takes in all factors of a person’s life to reverse a disease, and to prevent it. The idea of just ‘taking something’ to fix a problem is only going to treat the symptoms, and not the disease. It is important to look at the causes of the disease, and to remove those causes. Holistic, natural therapies including homeopathy, do this very thing. They look at all the factors in the life.
It is a shame, really, that so many people only consider the possibility of using alternative methods of curing a disease when they are at death’s door. The earlier the better, for any treatment – The more progressed a disease, the more difficult it is to reverse. Alternative therapies get a bad name, because most people will only try them at the very last, when the doctors have said there is no hope, and that the person has only weeks to live.
It is true, though, that some people who get onto using a natural treatment very early on, still do not recover – some people do not respond to any treatment, no matter what, and one would assume that ‘their time is up’. However, many people do have amazing recoveries when adopting a nutritive and cleansing regime such as Dr Gerson’s. Personally, I have had excellent results with using a modified Gerson plan, which has included aspects of Walter Last’s approach, and other healers. I am still comparatively fit and healthy today, at the age of 62, because of using these people’s approaches to diet and health, and homeopathy, rather than using conventional allopathic medicine.
However, it is important that I encourage people to go and see a health professional. We all need teachers. Reading about these things in books, or on-line all helps to broaden one’s knowledge and understanding, but there is nothing like going to see an experienced healer. You learn just so much from interacting with such people.
It is nigh impossible to work out what you need to do to get well without knowledge and experience, and this is why seeing an expert is so important. It took me some time before I became confident and skilled in using natural remedies. It was through seeing Walter Last, initially, that I began to see the relationship between diet, detoxifying, good mind-set, and disease. Walter Last was my first teacher in natural healing.
Thanks very much for your feed-back. I think this discussion might encourage some people to seek out a healer whom they can learn from.
Regards,
Merrilyn
Merrilyn,
I agree far-reaching for I think that you should broaden this. I am thoroughly convinced, that for each person it is absolutely necessary to detoxify totally in order to reach an old age, this on two different levels:
1. The mental and spiritual level: all the convictions and confessions of faith being hostile against the life aught to be given up, for all these ones make sick. This is a severe and tough task for this goes to the roots of the identy.
2. The physical level: All the poisons and heavy metal (e. g. mercury) deposed in the human body aught to be elimininated totally, and this in time. Think at this, that there exists a worldwide consensus amoung the physicians specialized upon the problems of the environment that the primary cause of Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s diseas and the multiple sclerosis is an intoxication caused by mercury.
Hi Ricini/Georg – Fantastic. Thankyou.
Regards, Merrilyn
I agree that Castor Oil is the best laxative, but beyond this the external use of Castor Oil is helpful too, e. g when the skin is bursting at low temperatures and a dry air during the winter.