This is an abridged and different version of the same tale I did for “Filipino Heritage” Vol. V. Once there was a couple with no children. “Give us a child,” they begged the saint. “We will accept any offspring at all, even if it be just a mouth.”
Every morning for the past two weeks, I’ve been waking up so as to take a tablespoon of coconut oil and swish it around for 5-10 minutes. Sounds like an unusual beauty routine, but I’ve been hearing and reading a lot about this practice called oil pulling. I was curious, so I thought of trying it.
Studies conducted by researchers Artin Arshamian, Behzad Iravani, Asifa Majid and Johan N. Lundström for the Karolinska Institute in Sweden...
