I remember back when I was nine years old (30 years ago), my Grandmother – A Midwife always used Castor Oil. She applied the Castor oil all over the newborn’s skin and clean their mouth with the oil after birth. She will ask the mother to continue this process, for the next seven days after the infant’s umbilical cord detaches completely.

My grandmother died when she was 98 years old, most of the people who attended her funeral beside our family, were all the babies she welcomed at birth. The most amazing fact we all agreed including my self was that, all of us were healthy babies! no reports of any disease of infections during our first years considering an era when modern medicine was out of our reach.

If any of us will get constipated she will ask our parents to give us Castor oil for this and many other health issues.

I trust more the old remedies than the modern drugs that promised to cure your symptoms and yet they might develop new complications in return.