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Hello, this is Karen Nickle Family Nurse Practitioner, and you are listening to Itchy and Bitchie a

podcast that provides answers to your many unanswered health questions. This episode topic was generated by one of the women in my Paraminipause Answer Course.

I would love to have the opportunity to talk to you about the course to see if it's the right

fit for you. There is a link on our website

itchy.com and our Facebook page I and B podcast where you can schedule an

appointment for a Zoom call with me. I know I have said this repeatedly, but again, this is a Zoom call with me. It is not a webinar.

So when you make an appointment, I will be sitting at my desk waiting for you to join

the one-on-one Zoom call.

In my last podcast episode, I picked apart the Tik-Tok rice water claims and as I mentioned I just

mentioned one of the women in my Paramount of Pause course asked about the Tik-Tock caster oil benefit claims.

Honestly, I wasn't even aware of all of the social media castor oil claims out there. I had to ask my course members what

they were hearing about castor oil and then I had to go research it. Tic-Toc claims

include using the oil in the eyes for dry eyes, cataracts, and glaucoma, putting

oil in the belly button to treat ovarian cyst, uterine fibroids, menstrual

and burn belly fat. It is also claimed that castor oil packs will

detox your liver and the packs are when they soak the castor oil on

it soak some fabric with castor oil and then place it on your abdomen. I'm going to talk about each of these claims a little later and

review what castor oil can really do for us. But first I want to share a little history

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