By: Richard Bleuze
Relieving a toothache with a home remedy.
A toothache is one ailment that can make your life miserable. A toothache is generally caused when tooth decay invades or is about to infect the pulp chamber, which contains nerve endings and tiny blood vessels.
Although, there are many over-the-counter toothache cures, they all have some side effects. Today, toothache home remedies are becoming quite popular.
Home remedies for toothache
The best home remedy is to take good care of your teeth! So, always rinse your mouth regularly and generally follow good oral hygiene. However, if you do get a toothache, opt for toothache pain home remedy instead of over-the-counter medication, since they’re safe and effective. Let’s see what they are:
1. Ice massage the hand:
Gently rubbing an ice cube in the area between the forefinger and the thumb for several minutes is an effective toothache remedy, as it eases toothache. It acts by overwhelming the pain impulses that usually travel along the nerve pathways. It has a 60 to 90% success rate. Ice placed directly on a throbbing tooth also helps ease the pain.
If you have a throbbing tooth ache, try this. Get a bowl of water big enough for your hand, and fill it half with water and 2 handfulls of ice. Place the hand from the opposite side of the body from where the tooth is located, into the ice water. In other words, if the tooth pain is on your left side place your right hand in the ice water. With the other hand, gently massage the V-shaped area between the thumb and index finger while the hand is under water.
YES...it sounds strange. But, it works!
2. Toothache relief using cucumber:
Cut a good enough pieces to fit on the tooth that is hurting or any pain on the body and it will take the pain away.
P.S.: Remember to make sure that it is refrigerated it’s a better soothing feeling.
3. Toothaches remedy using dried peppermint, salt water and oats:
Place a little wad of dried peppermint leaves around the tooth or abscess, spit out after a few minutes.
If you repeat this several times during the day, it should bring the abscess to the surface, lance it with a pin and treat it again. Rinse with warm salt water.
Oats will work to draw out an abscess, but peppermint relieves pain as well.
4. Ease a toothache with raw potato:
If you have any cold potatoes in refrigerator peel the skin off and cut a good enough piece to fit on the tooth that is hurting or any pain on the body and it will take the pain away.
5. Oil of oregano:
Apply directly to tooth or gum, tastes bad and burns a little but has natural anti-biotic properties.
6. Hydrogen Peroxide:
Rinse your mouth out with hydrogen peroxide. This will kill the infection
7. Colloidal silver:
Colloidal silver can be found at health food stores. Hold a dropperful under your tongue and then swallow twice daily.
8. Cashews/oil of cashew:
I’ve heard that eating cashews can cause an abscess to heal. It hasn’t worked for me, but I know people it has worked for.
9. Relieving a toothache with help of hot wet washcloth:
Apply a hot wet washcloth to the areas of pain until pain subsides… repeat as many times as needed…
10. Garlic:
Placing a clove of garlic with little rock salt on the affected tooth helps relieve or even cure the pain. This has worked for me!
11. Onion:
Toothache pain is often allayed by placing a small piece of onion on the bad tooth or gum, since onion has antibacterial properties that kill the germs in the mouth.
12. Lime:
This rich source of vitamin C prevents tooth decay and also provides toothache pain relief.
13. Wheat grass:
The juice of wheat grass is an excellent mouthwash for tooth decay and a natural toothache remedy. It also draws out the toxins from the gums and checks bacterial growth. However, it is very expensive.
14. Asafoetida:
This bitter, foul-smelling resinous material obtained from the roots of several plants of the parsley family, helps in instant toothache relief.
15. Bay berry:
Apply a paste made from bay berry bark mixed with vinegar helps relieve the toothache.
16. Liquor:
By squeezing a wad of cotton wool soaked in brandy or whiskey against the affected tooth helps numb the pain.
17. Oil of clove:
Clove oil, put directly onto the affected tooth or dabbed with a cotton ball on the decayed tooth, relieves toothache.
18. Pepper:
A pinch of pepper powder mixed with common salt is an excellent cure. It’s especially effective against the increased sensitiveness of the teeth.
19.Vanilla extract:
You can find vanilla extract in any grocery store. Open it and take a swig and hold in the area where the tooth pain is and within a minute the pain is gone. After the pain goes away, just spit it out in the sink. Using vanilla extract works fine for a tootheache,but if you have almond extract this works even better since it has more alcohol in it.
20. Oil of oregano:
This is an effective remedy for toothache, because it displays antimicrobial activity against food-borne pathogens that cause tooth decay.
21. Vicks Vapor Rub:
This home remedy works wonders. Apply a dab of Vicks vapor rub on the side of the face where the pain is. Place a sheet of paper towel on top and go lay down and relax. The heat from the vapors absorb into the skin and brings you relief.
22. Vicks Nyquil:
Ij you take about 1/2 teaspoon and swish it around the tooth the toothache will instantly subside.
23. Teabag:
Take a teabag and put it in water. Then, put it in the microwave for less than a minute. Put the teabag on the tooth. Doesn't taste good but it helps
24. Guava Leaves:
Boil 3-4 guava tree leaves in water and wait till it becomes luke warm. Make mouth full of this and wait for couple of seconds. Repeat this and this will relieve the toothache.
25. Salt:
A salt water mouthwash gets rid of tooth infection and helps cure toothache. Thorough rinsing of the mouth with salt water is important.
A toothache can strike without warning. So, if you’re prepared to tackle this menace with a toothache home remedy, you can be sure of immediate and effective relief. However, these toothache home remedies that have been discussed, are only for immediate relief prior to you seeing your dentist.
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