Blackseed oil

[SmokieTorre]

Hi, is it safe to rub blackssed oil on your neck over your thyroid as a moisturiser? I've heard you shouldn't use castor oil over it, so was wondering if it's the same for blackseed oil. TIA

[greygoose]

Hi SmokieTorre, welcome to the forum.

I've never heard that castor oil shouldn't be used on the thyroid. It is said to 'balance' hormones, but I don't believe that anymore than I believe in the Tooth Fairy or Father Christmas. But what's it supposed to do to your thyroid if you do rub it on the neck?

You don't give us any information on your profile except that you are hypo. Are you taking any thyroid hormone replacement? If so, your thyroid won't be working anymore so it doesn't really matter what you rub on it, it is beyond harm. It's like lying on the floor: you can't fall any lower.

[SmokieTorre in reply to greygoose]

Hi, I'm on a castor oil group on Facebook, I'm not fully up on it, but they say castor oil penetrates deeper than most oils and that it "pulls" from within, therefore it shouldn't be used over the thyroid. They haven't explained any further than that and I haven't asked, as it wasn't my post, I was reading someone else's.

I'm on Levothyroxine for my thyroid and as far as I'm aware my thyroid is still working, just told that it wasn't working properly.

Many thanks.

[greygoose in reply to SmokieTorre]

Sounds like a load of rubbish to me, written by people who know nothing about thyroid. But, I imagine they're talking about people with healthy thyroids, not hypos.

Anyway, if you are hypo, and taking levo, and your TSH has come down somewhat, then your thyroid won't be working. It will have given up and gone to sleep. Being hypo means that your thyroid needs a lot of stimulation - TSH - to make the little hormone it manages to make. Lower that stimulus, as one does with levo, then the thyroid cannot make hormone anymore. It cannot make hormone without TSH at the right level for it.

Levo is the thyroid hormone T4, and it does not just 'top-up' the hormone your thyroid is making, it replaces it.

Hope that makes sense, but the upshot is that there's nothing worse you can do to your thyroid than has already been done.

[SmokieTorre in reply to greygoose]

Hi, thank you for the information. You've been very helpful.

Many thanks

[greygoose in reply to SmokieTorre]

You're welcome.