Folk remedies for toothache

Oh, this toothache... It is difficult to bear even for those who can withstand any other painful sensations.  Even an aching tooth causes a lot of anxiety - it is impossible to think and think, to remain calm, and with prolonged pain a person begins to get irritated over small things. In this article, we will look at what needs to be done if a toothache manifests itself at the wrong moment, when there are no pills or a doctor at hand, or you voluntarily prefer to be treated with folk remedies. 

How to quickly relieve toothache at home

The first thing you need to do when tooth pain occurs is to stop eating and drinking and brush your teeth. Leftover food that gets into the tooth is irritating to the nerve and can cause most of the pain. To urgently dull the pain, you can apply an ice cube to the tooth; it will “freeze” the pain a little. Garlic relieves toothache relatively quickly. To do this, you need to cut off a small piece of garlic and place it between the gum and cheek/lip (depending on which tooth hurts). The gums may burn a little, but don’t be alarmed, nothing will be burned, but the pain will subside, the main thing is not to hold it for long. 

If a toothache finds you at home and you don’t plan to go anywhere, then apply an iodine mesh to the cheek where the tooth hurts. Some people find it helpful to cope with tooth pain by applying a piece of lard or beetroot to the sore spot. Simple vodka disinfects a sore spot well. Just soak a bandage or cotton wool in vodka and apply it to the sore tooth.

Mouth rinsing quickly helps relieve pain. To prepare the solution, you can use salt, soda, or both ingredients combined. For a glass of warm water you need to take a couple of teaspoons of salt and one small spoon of soda. To enhance the effect, you can add a couple of drops of iodine solution. Stir until dissolved and rinse for 30 seconds, then take a new portion of the solution. Repeat the procedure until the glass is completely empty. Herbal decoctions can be used as medicinal rinses; sage is especially good for this.

How to relieve toothache without pills

To speed up the passage of pain and forget about it for a while, you can put the following tips into practice:

• Massage your hand (if the tooth hurts on the right, then on the right hand and vice versa) in the place where the bones of the thumb meet the bones of the index finger. As practice shows, this action can reduce the severity of pain by half. You can coat the same area with an ice cube and apply pressure for five minutes.
• If your bite is incorrect, then during a toothache it is better not to close your jaw and keep your mouth open.
• It happens that toothache intensifies with the incoming air flow, then you need to try to open your mouth less often.
• Do not chew on a sore tooth and, in general, try not to eat heavily until the tooth is completely treated. Forget about sweet foods for a while. Sugar will enter the blood, which will spread throughout the body and get into the tooth, causing it to hurt more.
• Under no circumstances should you warm up a tooth without knowing what exactly the problem is with it. Firstly, this will only increase the pain due to the rush of blood, and secondly, if purulent masses have accumulated there, as, for example, happens with pulpitis, then the infection can spread.
• When you have a toothache, it is advised to stay in a horizontal position less, as this increases the pain.
• A very good and simple way to soothe pain in a tooth is to speak to it. Yes, yes, start talking with someone about something interesting to you, in the excitement of the conversation you yourself will not notice how the tooth has passed. Likewise, if you have no one to talk to, you can do something you enjoy that you enjoy. At such moments, endorphins are released into the blood, and this is a natural pain reliever. Believe it or not, this technique has never failed.

Folk remedies for toothache

Traditional medicine also offers several methods that promise to relieve sufferers from dental pain. However, before using such natural medicines, you need to be sure that you are not allergic to its components.

• Cut a fresh agave leaf and rinse it thoroughly under running water. Make a cross-section and apply the cut side of the sheet to the diseased tooth (gum). After five minutes the leaf can be removed.
• Pour a glass of boiling water over a couple of spoons of chamomile herb, cover with a lid and a towel, and let stand for twenty minutes. As soon as the tincture has cooled, you need to strain it and rinse your mouth. You can use lemon balm, oak bark and mint in a similar way.
• Soak a cotton swab with fir oil and apply to the sore tooth.
• Pour boiling water over the pre-washed onion peels. Let it brew for a while and cool a little. After this, rinse the sore area several times a day.

All this is good, but still all of the listed methods are suitable for forgetting about toothache only for a short time. But remember, she will come back again and perhaps become stronger. So it’s better not to delay your visit to the dentist.

It would be correct to mention one more important aspect. Can be confused with toothache inflammation of the trigeminal nerve. In this case, the person also feels very severe pain in the tooth, but in addition to this, the head also hurts. The difficulty is that with prolonged pain in the tooth, the head may also begin to ache. One of the differences between toothache and an inflamed trigeminal nerve is that in the latter case the pain cannot be relieved using traditional methods or even simple painkillers. This requires special medications that only a doctor prescribes. Therefore, if your tooth has been bothering you for a very long time, and treatment does not help, consult a neurologist; it is possible that it is not the tooth that actually hurts.