Folk remedies for toothache

Oh, this toothache ... It is difficult to endure it even for those who steadfastly endure any other painful sensations. Even a 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 trifles. In this article, we will consider what to do if a toothache manifests itself at an inopportune 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 a toothache at home

The first thing to do when a toothache occurs is to stop eating and drinking and brushing your teeth. Food debris that gets into the tooth irritates the nerve and can cause most of the pain. To urgently dull the pain, you can attach 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 the cheek / lip (depending on which tooth is hurting). The gums may burn a little, but do not be alarmed, nothing will burn, but the pain will subside, the main thing is not to keep it for a long time.

If a toothache found you at home and you do not plan to go out anywhere, then apply an iodine mesh on the cheek where the tooth hurts. For some, a piece of bacon or beets attached to the sore spot helps to cope with pain in the tooth. Simple vodka disinfects a sore spot well. Just soak a bandage or cotton swab in vodka and apply it to a sore tooth.

Rinsing the mouth quickly helps to relieve pain. To prepare the solution, you can use salt, baking soda, or both. In a glass of warm water, you need to take a couple of teaspoons of salt and one small spoonful of baking 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 in this matter.

How to relieve a toothache without pills

To speed up the passage of pain and forget about it for a while, the following tips can be applied in practice:

• Massage on the 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. As practice shows, this action can reduce the intensity of pain by half. The same place can be smeared with an ice cube, as well as pressing movements for five minutes.
• If the bite is wrong, then during a toothache it is better not to close the jaw and keep your mouth open.
• It happens that the toothache increases 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 abundantly until the tooth is completely healed. Forget about sweet foods for a while. Sugar will enter the bloodstream, which will spread throughout the body and enter the tooth, which will make it hurt more.
• Under no circumstances should you warm up your tooth without knowing what the problem is with it. Firstly, this will only intensify the pain due to the rushing blood, and secondly, if purulent masses have accumulated there, as, for example, happens with pulpitis, then the infection can spread.
• In case of toothache, it is advised to stay in a horizontal position less, as this increases the pain.
• A very good and easy way to soothe a pain in a tooth is to speak 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 what you love that gives you pleasure. At such moments, endorphins are released into the bloodstream, 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 a tooth pain sufferer. However, before using such natural medicines, you need to be sure that there are no allergies to its components.

• Cut off a fresh agave leaf and rinse it well under running water. Make a transverse incision and attach the sheet to the diseased tooth (gum) with the cut side. After five minutes, the leaf can be removed.
• Pour a couple of spoons of chamomile herb with a glass of boiling water, cover with a lid and a towel, let stand for twenty minutes. As soon as the tincture cools down, strain it and rinse your mouth. Lemon balm, oak bark and mint can be used in a similar way.
• Soak a cotton swab with fir oil and apply it to the aching tooth.
• Pour boiling water over the previously washed onion peel. Let it brew for a while and cool down a little. After that, rinse the sore spot several times a day.

All this is good, but nevertheless, all of the listed methods are suitable in order to forget about toothache only for a short time. But remember, she will come back and become, perhaps, stronger. So it's best not to delay your visit to the dentist.

It would be correct to mention one more important aspect. Toothache can be confused inflammation of the trigeminal nerve... In this case, the person also feels a very strong pain in the tooth, but besides it, the head also hurts. The difficulty lies in the fact that with prolonged pain in the tooth, the head may also begin to ache. One of the differences between a toothache and an inflamed trigeminal nerve is that in the latter case, the pain cannot be relieved by folk methods and even simple pain relievers. Here we need special drugs that only a doctor prescribes. Therefore, if your tooth torments you for a very long time, and the treatment does not help, consult a neurologist, it is possible that it is not the tooth that actually hurts.