Several readers have shared valuable additions in the comments worth highlighting.
Case studies: Darling Crimson describes dissolving a walnut-sized lipoma over several months with twice-daily castor oil application. Pug reports eliminating a 15-year bartholin's cyst in two months using castor oil combined with heat packs and epsom salt baths. Both describe an initial swelling before resolution—worth noting for anyone who experiences this and wonders if it's working.
Edgar Cayce connection: Bonnie Lester mentions learning castor oil compress use from Edgar Cayce's books. Cayce was a major early-twentieth-century proponent of castor oil packs, representing a parallel transmission line beyond the folk tradition O'Neill describes.
Individual variation: Some readers note that castor oil doesn't work identically for everyone. As with any remedy, observe your own response.
Oral use: Some readers shared traditional oral applications (including for inducing labor). These represent different practitioner traditions—O'Neill's approach, which this essay presents, is topical only.
Thank you all for reading and for keeping this knowledge alive in the comments.
Each one dissolves things differently. Castor oil/turpentine are oil/fat soluble while DMSO is water soluble.
On wounds and issues, I like to first apply dmso 50% with a roller applicator and let that soak in.
Then I apply castor oil sometimes with a bit of turpentine using another roller applicator.
It's helped me get rid of an old bone spur!
Amazing stuff and when I tell people about it, they think it's bullshit, especially when they are absorbed into the allopathic IDIOCRACY medical system.
Thank you for posting this vital information. Barbara has done a great job and continues to. I hope many more follow her lead. We need a website where people can post these remedies in one place so we can look up what we need.
I have heard of a lady with breast cancer lumps, cured it by using the castor oil, it can take weeks or even months.
There are so many remedies that older people know about and I am lucky I have a Hungarian lady neighbour who learned so much from her mother and keeps learning more from the Hungarian facebook pages where they share the knowledge passed down. I think it is very important we learn more and keep the knowledge alive, because only we can help ourselves to truly heal.
One remedy: Sour cherries for measles.
Another remedy: Sage in olive oil for aches and inflammations.
This is a problem (intentional, IMO) created by our infatuation with education. That somehow educated people are more worthy of our hard earned money than folk healers, our grandmother's centuries old remedy, or plain old common sense. Education devalued intuition and brainwashed us into believing that books or people with tons of credentials with zero experience somehow know more about you than you do.
Castor oil, like DMSO, garlic, sage or even mother's chicken soup are remedies used in communities like the Amish, where family tradition is strong and children by and large do not get vaccinated. Not that the Amish don't get sick. It is that they don't stay sick and when they do get better, they don't spend a fortune lining some executive's or government bureaucrat's pocket dealing with the damage caused by the 'cure'.
With very few exceptions, big pharma drugs vibrate at a negative frequency (energetically cold), while plants largely do not unless genetically modified. That is why the Amish stay healthy and we are sick all the time. Use God's pharmacy if you want to stay well.
been doing that for almost 50 years now, only needed a doc a few times, for surgery, for things that did not respond to my limited knowledge of herbs and homeopathics. Gramma still used salty water to unclog nose, a remedy recently re-given to me by a Substacker. Someone told me about onion for ear infections but mine did not respond to it. I use peroxide.
I use hydrogen peroxide for ear aches, it works for me, clears the ache in 24 hours. I only put a few drops in the ear with an eye dropper. I also use peroxide when I feel a sore throat coming on. I mix the peroxide (about 2 tsps) with mouthwash and gargle a couple times a day. The sore throat is usually gone within two days. Usually my sore throats last 5-7 days without the peroxide gargles.
I was in pain one night with earache and just out of desperation put a quarter of a freshly peeled garlic clove in my ear. Went to bed and woke up fine. No earache.
I have a minuscule spoon, probably a souvenir thing, and use Utah pink mineral salt. I dip my thumbs in it when handwarm and sniff it like that. When my nose is free I just drink the salty water. The Utah salt tastes like our old oxo!
GreenMedInfo.com. Sayer Ji was one of many who were labeled as pushing "disinformation" (a fabricated media word). He posts data from published papers, making research easier for people who may not know how to get the research. I've known of his work for over 10 years, before Covidiot Theater premiered. 🙏💖
Love Barbara. So knowledgeable, able to convey in simple terms.
I never heard that people gave castor oil as an oral preventative. Cod liver oil, yes, but not castor oil.
I use castor oil twice a day on face (mixed with my regular moisturizer) and lashes and brows at night. I absolutely love it. In my late 60's and just had someone tell me I look like I'm 52. (Not sure where the exact number came from 😊, but I'll take it.)
I was wondering if maybe a drop or two of some nice essential oil mixed into the castor oil might be a good skin moisturizer, the reasons being to get rid of the unpleasant smell of the castor oil plus using the castor as a carrier for the beneficial effects of the essential oil. Thank you for your info.
Interesting that you should mention that, Horsea T.
I do in fact mix just a few drops of rose essential oil into my castor oil. I have small pumps bottles. They probably hold two ounces total? So in a full pump bottle I add just a few drops of the rose essential oil. Enough to give it a pleasant smell, but not enough to cause any irritation.
Castor oil is a good "carrier oil" for essential oils, which can be too intense used on their own.
My husband and I have benefited from using castor oil for over 35 yrs for many ailments. My three babies flew out thanks to castor oil, I can’t recommend it enough if you’re over your due date and the doctors are opting for an induced birth.
The “recipe” is 1 TBSP in a blender with orange juice to mask the taste. I took a glass on the hour 3x and for all of my three children the contractions started that night. Easy quick births.
I read somewhere (not the Lancet or BMJ) that when used on the hair and scalp, it's best to dilute with a carrier oil. So in winter months when there's no moisture in the air, and my hair turns into dry straw, I occasionally apply a 50/50 mix with Black Seed oil, like a conditioner, rinsing after use, but not thoroughly. I leave residue on my head overnight, and follow up with shampoo and conditioner in the morning.
My hair still looks mostly old and gray, but it's easier to comb. Doesn't have as much of the dry and flyaway, “did he just stick a fork in the electrical outlet,” look.
IMPORTANT for AUTHOR'S ATTENTION ... potentially misleading typo. I spotted something that might be interpreted inappropriately. This is a whole paragraph and I the word I am concern with will be in caps: 'Even cataracts respond. A drop of castor oil on the finger, wiped over the closed eye, then repeated on the other eye. The oil is sticky, so wiping is easier than dropping it directly IN, but either works. The same principle: abnormal buildup on the lens, gradually dissolved.' I would state: 'directly onto the eye lid' "dropping it directly in' can be mistaken for dropping it in like eye drops into the eye. I hope you don't mind me brining this to your attention. Thank you, Olga.
Olga, thank you for the careful reading. Actually, O'Neill does mean directly in the eye—she explicitly says so in her lecture: "Could you put it in your eye? Absolutely. It's just easier to wipe it over your eye though because it's so sticky." So the original wording was accurate to her teaching, not a typo. That said, your comment made me realize others might have the same question, so I've added her direct quote to the essay to make it unambiguous. Appreciate you flagging it.
I would also add, if I may, please refrain from purchasing castor oil in plastic bottles. Look for organic and cold-pressed castor oil in a glass bottle, preferably brown glass or tinted. Be wary of manufacturers who use solvent extraction. You don't know what chemical residues remain in the oil.
I'd like to add, "expeller-pressed and HEXANE-free; meaning,
AI Overview
Hexane-free castor oil is oil extracted from the seeds of the castor plant without the use of chemical solvents. Instead of using harsh solvents to maximize yield, it relies entirely on mechanical extraction—typically a "cold-pressed" method—yielding a purer, more natural product free of chemical residues.
Why Choose Hexane-Free?
Purity: Standard industrial extraction often uses hexane to separate oil from the meal. Hexane-free processing ensures zero chemical remnants touch the final product.
Nutrient Retention: Cold-pressing relies on pressure rather than heat, preserving the oil's natural integrity, vitamins (like Vitamin E), and fatty acids (like ricinoleic acid).
Safety & Skin Health: It is much gentler, making it ideal for those with sensitive skin or for use on delicate areas like eyelashes and eyebrows.
Modern medicine is all about wiping out the memories of safe cheap cures and replacing it with expensive largely untested products that often come with side effects that enable the companies to repeat the process.
Ive noted with some of us it heals scars with others it makes it worse. A few of my relatives were in the latter group and didnt thank me for getting them to use it. Try a little, gradually and you should be able to tell .
Fortunately I grew up with this knowledge. It didnt die out in many places. We nearly lost castor oil cos we bombed so much of the producing regions during the iraq war , but it has rebounded and is now everywhere. I must admit it really doesnt work fotr some people tho. Its odd. For me it seems to do what they always promised.. for others it seems to increase scarring and make their eyebrows fall out etc. Over time it tends to dry out everyone's skin . I'm never quite sure what produces the difference between people but i've learned to be cautious..
It made a terrible mess of my leg once and i still dont know if it was 'bad stuff' being drawn out or if the castor oil *was the 'bad stuff' coming out... always worth being cautious. Especially with plants that dont come from your ancestral home. .
Real question, no snark here. What if you have very little to no connection to Earth-based ancestors? How does one know what to focus on for treatment in that case?
My mother did the castor oil compresses using layers of flannel cloth she purchased just for this purpose.. she had irritable bowel episodes… one whole winter(we live in Michigan) she applied the compresses.. her bowel healed after this and improving her diet for prevention... We read about the uses of castor oil from Edgar Cayce’s books! I think That’s where I’ve heard Barbara O’Neill’s name before.. very interesting reading about this again! I grew up with potato and onion and milk poltices and compresses. My grandfather utilized terpentine rubs for his arthritis. Ty! Nice trip down memory lane!
Author's Note
Several readers have shared valuable additions in the comments worth highlighting.
Case studies: Darling Crimson describes dissolving a walnut-sized lipoma over several months with twice-daily castor oil application. Pug reports eliminating a 15-year bartholin's cyst in two months using castor oil combined with heat packs and epsom salt baths. Both describe an initial swelling before resolution—worth noting for anyone who experiences this and wonders if it's working.
Edgar Cayce connection: Bonnie Lester mentions learning castor oil compress use from Edgar Cayce's books. Cayce was a major early-twentieth-century proponent of castor oil packs, representing a parallel transmission line beyond the folk tradition O'Neill describes.
Resource sites: Readers recommend DeepRootsAtHome.com, EarthClinic.com, and GreenMedInfo.com as databases for traditional remedies.
Individual variation: Some readers note that castor oil doesn't work identically for everyone. As with any remedy, observe your own response.
Oral use: Some readers shared traditional oral applications (including for inducing labor). These represent different practitioner traditions—O'Neill's approach, which this essay presents, is topical only.
Thank you all for reading and for keeping this knowledge alive in the comments.
Castor oil, turpentine, and DMSO are all good solvents that the body can use to break things down to be eliminated.
https://drsircus.com/general/natural-solvent-medicine-terpenes-dmso-water-turpentine/
Each one dissolves things differently. Castor oil/turpentine are oil/fat soluble while DMSO is water soluble.
On wounds and issues, I like to first apply dmso 50% with a roller applicator and let that soak in.
Then I apply castor oil sometimes with a bit of turpentine using another roller applicator.
It's helped me get rid of an old bone spur!
Amazing stuff and when I tell people about it, they think it's bullshit, especially when they are absorbed into the allopathic IDIOCRACY medical system.
Thanks for the link ! 👍📌
Thank you for posting this vital information. Barbara has done a great job and continues to. I hope many more follow her lead. We need a website where people can post these remedies in one place so we can look up what we need.
I have heard of a lady with breast cancer lumps, cured it by using the castor oil, it can take weeks or even months.
There are so many remedies that older people know about and I am lucky I have a Hungarian lady neighbour who learned so much from her mother and keeps learning more from the Hungarian facebook pages where they share the knowledge passed down. I think it is very important we learn more and keep the knowledge alive, because only we can help ourselves to truly heal.
One remedy: Sour cherries for measles.
Another remedy: Sage in olive oil for aches and inflammations.
Deep Roots At Home.Com or Earth Clinic.Com has it all with actual folks posting what works too!
That's fantastic, thank you for posting the links.
Sorry. I use Brave or Duck Duck Go. Google messing with it. I just tried and the sites worked. Good Luck. Earth Clinic could be .Org
home.com doesn't work anymore, it directs to a mortgage loan company.
the other works fine. thanks.
Should have been http://deeprootsathome.com
deeprootsathome.com
Sadly the links don't work, the first one went to a mortgage seller and the other one said it was insecure. I will try to find them in another way.
Perhaps: deeprootsathome.com and www.earthclinic.com
Yes. Those worked.
Both are fantastic. Thank you.
You replied almost exactly what I was going to. Thank you!
http://deeprootsathome.com
This is a problem (intentional, IMO) created by our infatuation with education. That somehow educated people are more worthy of our hard earned money than folk healers, our grandmother's centuries old remedy, or plain old common sense. Education devalued intuition and brainwashed us into believing that books or people with tons of credentials with zero experience somehow know more about you than you do.
Castor oil, like DMSO, garlic, sage or even mother's chicken soup are remedies used in communities like the Amish, where family tradition is strong and children by and large do not get vaccinated. Not that the Amish don't get sick. It is that they don't stay sick and when they do get better, they don't spend a fortune lining some executive's or government bureaucrat's pocket dealing with the damage caused by the 'cure'.
With very few exceptions, big pharma drugs vibrate at a negative frequency (energetically cold), while plants largely do not unless genetically modified. That is why the Amish stay healthy and we are sick all the time. Use God's pharmacy if you want to stay well.
been doing that for almost 50 years now, only needed a doc a few times, for surgery, for things that did not respond to my limited knowledge of herbs and homeopathics. Gramma still used salty water to unclog nose, a remedy recently re-given to me by a Substacker. Someone told me about onion for ear infections but mine did not respond to it. I use peroxide.
I’ve used peroxide very effectively on dogs ears as well as human
I use hydrogen peroxide for ear aches, it works for me, clears the ache in 24 hours. I only put a few drops in the ear with an eye dropper. I also use peroxide when I feel a sore throat coming on. I mix the peroxide (about 2 tsps) with mouthwash and gargle a couple times a day. The sore throat is usually gone within two days. Usually my sore throats last 5-7 days without the peroxide gargles.
I was in pain one night with earache and just out of desperation put a quarter of a freshly peeled garlic clove in my ear. Went to bed and woke up fine. No earache.
Bless you for not turning those mothers away because of the late hour.
I have a minuscule spoon, probably a souvenir thing, and use Utah pink mineral salt. I dip my thumbs in it when handwarm and sniff it like that. When my nose is free I just drink the salty water. The Utah salt tastes like our old oxo!
I boil water for tea and pour a cup of it over the salt, then let it sit till handwarm. yes that is it!
GreenMedInfo.com. Sayer Ji was one of many who were labeled as pushing "disinformation" (a fabricated media word). He posts data from published papers, making research easier for people who may not know how to get the research. I've known of his work for over 10 years, before Covidiot Theater premiered. 🙏💖
Love Barbara. So knowledgeable, able to convey in simple terms.
I never heard that people gave castor oil as an oral preventative. Cod liver oil, yes, but not castor oil.
I use castor oil twice a day on face (mixed with my regular moisturizer) and lashes and brows at night. I absolutely love it. In my late 60's and just had someone tell me I look like I'm 52. (Not sure where the exact number came from 😊, but I'll take it.)
I was wondering if maybe a drop or two of some nice essential oil mixed into the castor oil might be a good skin moisturizer, the reasons being to get rid of the unpleasant smell of the castor oil plus using the castor as a carrier for the beneficial effects of the essential oil. Thank you for your info.
Frankincense oil is great for skin. So I add it. As castor oil is thick I mix it with organic coconut oil.
Thanks for relating your experience. Anything is better than pure castor oil.
Interesting that you should mention that, Horsea T.
I do in fact mix just a few drops of rose essential oil into my castor oil. I have small pumps bottles. They probably hold two ounces total? So in a full pump bottle I add just a few drops of the rose essential oil. Enough to give it a pleasant smell, but not enough to cause any irritation.
Castor oil is a good "carrier oil" for essential oils, which can be too intense used on their own.
You can afford rose essential oil? Wow! I've always wanted to buy some, but...
My husband and I have benefited from using castor oil for over 35 yrs for many ailments. My three babies flew out thanks to castor oil, I can’t recommend it enough if you’re over your due date and the doctors are opting for an induced birth.
The “recipe” is 1 TBSP in a blender with orange juice to mask the taste. I took a glass on the hour 3x and for all of my three children the contractions started that night. Easy quick births.
I read somewhere (not the Lancet or BMJ) that when used on the hair and scalp, it's best to dilute with a carrier oil. So in winter months when there's no moisture in the air, and my hair turns into dry straw, I occasionally apply a 50/50 mix with Black Seed oil, like a conditioner, rinsing after use, but not thoroughly. I leave residue on my head overnight, and follow up with shampoo and conditioner in the morning.
And how is it looking? Any change?
My hair still looks mostly old and gray, but it's easier to comb. Doesn't have as much of the dry and flyaway, “did he just stick a fork in the electrical outlet,” look.
https://timothywiney.substack.com/p/castor-oil
IMPORTANT for AUTHOR'S ATTENTION ... potentially misleading typo. I spotted something that might be interpreted inappropriately. This is a whole paragraph and I the word I am concern with will be in caps: 'Even cataracts respond. A drop of castor oil on the finger, wiped over the closed eye, then repeated on the other eye. The oil is sticky, so wiping is easier than dropping it directly IN, but either works. The same principle: abnormal buildup on the lens, gradually dissolved.' I would state: 'directly onto the eye lid' "dropping it directly in' can be mistaken for dropping it in like eye drops into the eye. I hope you don't mind me brining this to your attention. Thank you, Olga.
Olga, thank you for the careful reading. Actually, O'Neill does mean directly in the eye—she explicitly says so in her lecture: "Could you put it in your eye? Absolutely. It's just easier to wipe it over your eye though because it's so sticky." So the original wording was accurate to her teaching, not a typo. That said, your comment made me realize others might have the same question, so I've added her direct quote to the essay to make it unambiguous. Appreciate you flagging it.
I would also add, if I may, please refrain from purchasing castor oil in plastic bottles. Look for organic and cold-pressed castor oil in a glass bottle, preferably brown glass or tinted. Be wary of manufacturers who use solvent extraction. You don't know what chemical residues remain in the oil.
I'd like to add, "expeller-pressed and HEXANE-free; meaning,
AI Overview
Hexane-free castor oil is oil extracted from the seeds of the castor plant without the use of chemical solvents. Instead of using harsh solvents to maximize yield, it relies entirely on mechanical extraction—typically a "cold-pressed" method—yielding a purer, more natural product free of chemical residues.
Why Choose Hexane-Free?
Purity: Standard industrial extraction often uses hexane to separate oil from the meal. Hexane-free processing ensures zero chemical remnants touch the final product.
Nutrient Retention: Cold-pressing relies on pressure rather than heat, preserving the oil's natural integrity, vitamins (like Vitamin E), and fatty acids (like ricinoleic acid).
Safety & Skin Health: It is much gentler, making it ideal for those with sensitive skin or for use on delicate areas like eyelashes and eyebrows.
Yes, you are correct.
Thank you for clarifying and that all is good. Olga
Modern medicine is all about wiping out the memories of safe cheap cures and replacing it with expensive largely untested products that often come with side effects that enable the companies to repeat the process.
I wonder if it works on stretch marks – aren't they just scars under the skin?
Ive noted with some of us it heals scars with others it makes it worse. A few of my relatives were in the latter group and didnt thank me for getting them to use it. Try a little, gradually and you should be able to tell .
Fortunately I grew up with this knowledge. It didnt die out in many places. We nearly lost castor oil cos we bombed so much of the producing regions during the iraq war , but it has rebounded and is now everywhere. I must admit it really doesnt work fotr some people tho. Its odd. For me it seems to do what they always promised.. for others it seems to increase scarring and make their eyebrows fall out etc. Over time it tends to dry out everyone's skin . I'm never quite sure what produces the difference between people but i've learned to be cautious..
It made a terrible mess of my leg once and i still dont know if it was 'bad stuff' being drawn out or if the castor oil *was the 'bad stuff' coming out... always worth being cautious. Especially with plants that dont come from your ancestral home. .
Real question, no snark here. What if you have very little to no connection to Earth-based ancestors? How does one know what to focus on for treatment in that case?
you mean alien genetics ?
Yes.
if you had healthy ancestors I guess :) . Fortunately I did.
My mother did the castor oil compresses using layers of flannel cloth she purchased just for this purpose.. she had irritable bowel episodes… one whole winter(we live in Michigan) she applied the compresses.. her bowel healed after this and improving her diet for prevention... We read about the uses of castor oil from Edgar Cayce’s books! I think That’s where I’ve heard Barbara O’Neill’s name before.. very interesting reading about this again! I grew up with potato and onion and milk poltices and compresses. My grandfather utilized terpentine rubs for his arthritis. Ty! Nice trip down memory lane!
Thank you for this precious info. Indeed we have forgot much of our ancestors’ wisdom (mainly women) but we are rediscovering
We should just rub our entire bodies head to toe with organic castor oil. It seems to cure a lot of bad things. I'll try it tonight after my shower.