# castor oil

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/castor-oil/8413>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 11, 2000, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/castor-oil/8413 "2000-03-11T00:03:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![ASPA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b19c9b/32.png) [@ASPA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASPA)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2000, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/castor-oil/8413/1 "2000-03-11T00:03:00Z")

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REPLYING TO OBLIO: (I’m not sure where or how this particular message should get posted, so I’ll post it here, as well as I posted it as “reply” following your reply to my posting about castor oil. In short, thanks! Great! Still, I continue to look for specific, direct, explanatory reference to valued nutritional properties and dosgae(s) for dietary supplementation. Because it’s so cathartic at 2 tablespoonfuls, without the specific nonmedicinal reference I can’t assume it has a history of serious use (by itself, not with elixers) for vitamin/nutritional value. Any comments?