AMANAKKU ENNAI

Description

“Castor Oil / Amanakku Ennai / Vilakkennai: Castor oil is considered a vegetable oil that is pale yellow in color and is produced by crushing the seeds of the castor oil plant. Castor oil can help relieve constipation, treat eye irritation, and ease arthritis symptoms. This liquid is colorless to pale yellow and has a distinct taste and odor. It is commonly used in the preparation of medications, and skin and hair care products.

Apply it directly to the skin, use it through a castor oil pack, or mix it with other oils to use it as a topical remedy. Orally, add it to milk or lukewarm water or taken in the form of a supplement. Castor oil as a deep cleanser will deep-clean your skin of dirt, dead skin cells, and excess oils while keeping your skin soft, supple and flawless. Castor oil’s miraculous ability to hydrate the skin makes it a perfect remedy for treating cracked heels. Castor oil has been proven to be an effective way to grow and strengthen your hair. But did you know that it can also work to thicken your eyebrows. It’s commonly used as an additive in foods and skin care products, as well as an industrial lubricant . These types of fats act as humectants and can be used to moisturize the skin. Castor oil is used to lit diyas in Puja.

For centuries, at the first sign of illness, many mothers and grandparents would immediately turn to giving their children castor oil either topically or internally to naturally boost immune function and speed up healing. Derived from the seeds of the castor bean plant (Ricinus communis)castor oil’s most popular use has been for treating skin infections, lowering constipation and boosting the appearance of hair health, but research has shown that castor oil has even more important applications for supporting the immune system.

Castor oil is capable of increasing white blood cells and the count of T-11 cells (a type of special white blood cells that act like antibodies) produced within the body’s lymphocytes that help kill viruses, fungi, bacteria and cancer cells. Many of castor oil’s benefits come down to its chemical composition. It’s classified as a type of triglyceride fatty acid, and almost 90 percent of its fatty acid content is a specific and rare compound called ricinoleic acid. Castor oil is considered to be pretty unique because ricinoleic acid is not found in many other substances, and it’s such a dense, concentrated source. It is produced by cold-pressing the seeds and subsequent clarification of the oil by heat.”