The bactericidal properties of garlic are widely known - this is partly why it has gained popularity in the treatment and prevention of a wide variety of diseases, especially in traditional medicine. Folk "healers" have found the use of garlic and toothache, and some even consider garlic from tooth pain as a more effective means than special tablet painkillers.
What is most interesting is that garlic is recommended to use to reduce pain in the tooth almost anything: putting a piece of garlic in the cavity, compresses on the diseased tooth, as well as taking alcohol tincture and rinsing the mouth with it, and even applying the clove to wrist.
Is the use of garlic miraculously able to relieve a suffering person from toothache? Let's figure it out ...
Possibilities of garlic in the fight against tooth pain
If we try to understand the chemical composition of a simple clove of garlic and look for those that are able to anesthetize among the substances in it, then we will not find any analgesics, even weak ones. Therefore, do not expect that immediately upon application to a diseased tooth, garlic will have about the same effect as painkillers pharmaceuticals have.
But the antiseptic properties of garlic are really pronounced, and are due to the substance allicin, which shows a bactericidal and fungicidal effect.
It is interesting
Allicin is not present in garlic in its free form, but is formed only by mechanical destruction of the clove cells, when the contents of the damaged vacuoles and cytoplasm are mixed together and enter into chemical interaction.
Thus, the “analgesic” properties of garlic are very, very limited, and can only be manifested in the fact that its bactericidal properties will reduce the number of pathogenic microorganisms that cause, for example, gum disease.
It should be borne in mind that allicin is a very aggressive compound, as a result of which garlic can, for example, cause burns of the oral mucosa with direct prolonged contact, and also lead to additional irritation of the pulp (dental "nerve") in the presence of a deep carious cavity in the tooth.
Examples:
- Suppose a tooth has a deep carious cavity, almost reaching the pulp chamber (here is located the neurovascular bundle, which is colloquially referred to simply as the dental nerve). If the pulp is still alive (that is, it has not undergone death and necrotic decay), then when chemical irritants, for example, acidic, spicy, salty foods, get into such a carious cavity, severe pain often occurs. So if you try to follow the advice of folk "healers" and ram into a "hollow" a piece of garlic, then an unforgettable experience will be immediately provided. An immediate rinse with water will help.
- There are situations when pain occurs due to inflammation of the gum tissue - the remnants of food fall into the so-called gum pocket, and here the process of decay begins. In an effort to destroy bacteria in the focus of inflammation, some people also try to apply a piece of garlic to a sore spot, and even so painstakingly endure terrible pain and burning, believing that these are natural costs of the healing process. Well, the damage from a burn can be no less than from inflammation, and bacteria can be destroyed in much more rational and safe ways.
Thus, toothache and garlic - the concepts, so to speak, are almost incompatible.
In all situations in which folk recipes recommend using garlic as an antiseptic, simple warm salt water will also help: leftover food, pus and pathogenic bacteria can be washed with a simple rinse of the mouth, without trying to burn your gums with garlic “for greater reliability”.
On a note
Insertion of garlic into a deep carious cavity can also lead to a burn of the pulp with its subsequent death - however, for this you will have to endure a very severe pain. The next day, the tooth can even almost cease to hurt, since the neurovascular bundle will already be dead. However, you should not be too happy about this and consider that now you can not rush to the dentist: a dead tissue will decompose right inside the tooth, and pus, not finding a way out, can bring many more unpleasant surprises if you do not consult a doctor in time.
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“Once upon a time in my youth, when I still didn’t protect my teeth and didn’t especially hurry to the dentist with a toothache, I often used garlic. Sometimes I made tincture on vodka, sometimes I just chewed. Honestly, it seemed to me that garlic helps relieve toothache, it’s always so different, it’ll hurt, hurt, and let go. But while it hurts, you use garlic, it releases a little. Then again. But such that the tooth was cured with garlic, it has never been, always everything ended with the doctor. Now I understand that the less you go on a trip to the doctor and indulge in painkillers, it doesn’t matter with garlic or analgin, the healthier you will be. ”
Alexandra, Tyumen
Toothache garlic tincture
A few words about the use of tincture of garlic to relieve toothache (also a common folk trick).
Preparing such a tincture is quite simple: 100 grams of crushed garlic is poured with half a liter of vodka, the vessel is closed and put for two weeks in a dark, cool place. After the expiration of the infusion, the entire mixture is filtered through gauze, and the filtered liquid is either rinsed with a mouth for toothache, or (the second common method) taken orally.
Well, as for the ingestion, everything is clear - do not feed some comrades with bread, let them take something alcohol-containing inside. Of course, there will be more harm from such treatment than benefit (from the regular use of ethyl alcohol, not to mention the constant irritation of the gastric mucosa with garlic).
However, the second version of the application of garlic tincture in some cases may well be practiced with careful execution: garlic volatile products passing into the tincture fall on the gum inflammation sites and destroy pathogenic bacteria, due to which the inflammatory process slows down and the pain subsides a little. Ethanol also has a certain antiseptic effect, which, moreover, has a vasodilating effect.
A more or less beneficial effect will be achieved in people suffering from gum disease. However, with approximately the same effect for toothache, you can use a water decoction of chamomile, sage, infusion of oak bark.
But with toothaches caused by caries, pulpitis or periodontitis, the effect of garlic tincture will be practically zero.
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“I read somewhere that you can make a tincture on garlic so that the pain in the tooth can be removed, but they don’t reach the hand to prepare it. This process is too long: the tooth fell ill, you put the tincture for two weeks, during these two weeks the pain became so strong that I had to go to the doctor, and before the next bad tooth someone pours out this tincture or drinks it. Once I used something similar with my grandmother in the village. Well, I drank a bit, it’s easier, but caries doesn’t go anywhere. The next day, the tooth still hurt, and with it the head ... ”
Sergey, Kaluga
Garlic compress on the wrist
At first, it may seem that applying garlic to the wrist with a toothache is something completely meaningless, a kind of “babkin” method of leveling conspiracies and prayers.It is also called Siberian, and it looks like this: a garlic tooth is pressed until a slurry is obtained (sometimes it is just cut off half), which is then applied to the inside of the wrist, where the pulse is felt, and carefully pressed with a dense bandage. Moreover, if the tooth hurts on the right, then a bandage is recommended to be applied to the left hand, and vice versa.
Apologists for this method of relieving toothache appeal to the connection of various points on the surface of the body with nerve nodes, and believe that treating garlic with such a point on the wrist can stop the flow of pain impulses to the brain. This justification does not have any evidence base, but today they use this technique only in villages, for lack of more effective painkillers.
Meanwhile, less odious comrades formulated a different principle of garlic when applied to the wrist: a strong burning of the skin on the hand distracts a person from a diseased tooth, as a result of which the toothache no longer seems so unbearable. Well, the approach is ambiguous, and it is up to the man himself to decide what is best for him: either only a tooth hurts, or a tooth and wrist hurt at the same time ...
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“Once it was such that the tooth suddenly ached, and in the yard Saturday, to the district center fifty kilometers. That is, I will only see a doctor in two days by dinner. I went to a local herbalist grandmother to help me with at least something. She tied a chopped clove of garlic on my wrist and bandaged it so that it started to crush. She said that if I feel a strong burning sensation, then everything is fine, the process is going on. I was still surprised that the tooth hurt on the left, and she tied the garlic on the right. My hand burned mercilessly, but I put up with all the strength I was already sweating. Then she still could not stand it, removed the bandage, the skin under it was red, like cancer. The tooth didn’t pass, but while the hand was burning, I didn’t notice it that way ... ”
Olga, Khabarovsk
The safety of garlic, or why you need to call a doctor first
First of all, it should be remembered that the use of garlic to relieve toothache in no way can replace a visit to the dentist. It’s so “wound up” that if a tooth gets sick and, moreover, hurts regularly, then it itself will not be cured, and further without dental care it will only get worse.
As for garlic, the brief conclusions are as follows:
- Applying it to a tooth does not reduce toothache - on the contrary, pain in most cases will only intensify, especially in the case of a deep carious cavity;
- Attempts to chew frantically garlic and apply it to the gums are fraught with serious and very unpleasant burns;
- Reception of tincture of garlic on vodka inside is not more effective than just "getting drunk", and rinsing with such a tincture of the oral cavity is not more effective than rinsing with a warm decoction of chamomile or sage;
- Attaching a clove of garlic to the wrist at best will distract from toothache with a strong burning sensation in the wrist, but otherwise it makes no sense.
With severe toothaches, regular attempts at self-medication, be it garlic or painkillers, can lead to serious complications, some of which are even life-threatening. Therefore, the first thing to do with tooth pain is to make an appointment with the doctor. And garlic ... put it better in the soup, so it will bring much more benefit.
(If you have also used garlic for toothache - be sure to leave your review at the bottom of this page!)
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The other day, the gum at the top of the tooth was swollen, the pain was not too strong, but unpleasant, it was impossible to touch the tooth with the tongue, not to chew. He took a clove of garlic, chopped finely and finely, took a piece of a bandage and put the garlic there. Then the resulting swab was applied to the diseased gum. He held for half an hour. Went to sleep. In the morning, really, there was no pain, the tumor subsided, and with a tooth that you could not touch in the evening, you can bite the nuts. Previously, I did not believe in all these "grandmother" methods. But I tried and ... believed. Do not be ill!
I agree. 2 tablets did not help, and garlic relieved pain in 10 minutes.
I do not know how harmful it is to apply garlic. Today I put it, cutting it in half, to the gum, and slept through the night. And in the morning the tumor left.
Whenever I have a toothache, I put garlic on my wrist, and it always helps me. And those who write that garlic does not help - just get money for medicine (
On all 100 I agree with you, I carried it for a day, now I have done it again - no burn, no burning, the temperature was 38, and now it's normal. And I repeat for safety.
Agree! Very surprising, but it really helps. True, my tooth does not hurt, but the gum is swollen and itchy while the temporary filling lies. Half of the garlic instantly relieved the pain and itching. Self-hypnosis may, of course, but I'm glad about that - no drugs and painkillers have helped.
Swollen cheek and lower lip. The pain is unbearable, even strong painkillers did not help, she could not open her mouth. Weekend ... I signed up for a doctor only on Monday. I cut a clove of garlic in half, put one half in the direction of the diseased tooth, and the second in the direction of the lip. I did it twice a day, the tumor doubled away, there is almost no pain, now I can not only touch my cheek, but also get to a bad tooth. Even ate without tears)
Just got a toothache. Hole, caries. Put garlic for 2 minutes, the pain is gone. It helped.
Remember the old wisdom that a medicine can be both poison and medicine - it depends on the dose. I would add: and from the time of application. If you apply the garlic for 5-20 minutes (pulling out with a strong burning, naturally), then there will be no harm. Whether it will be useful - it depends on the cause of the pain and the severity of the process. Analgesic pills also do not eliminate the cause, so the disappearance of pain from garlic or other means does not exclude a visit to the dentist. But it is often necessary to wait for it, and then it is quite possible to use folk remedies (without fanaticism: it gets worse - stop it!).
I myself am a general practitioner and I think that it is necessary to combine traditional medicine and pharmacy wisely. facilities. For pain in the gum pockets, I use a mixture of a third of a teaspoon of garlic gruel, the same amount of honey and salt. A piece of bandage should be folded into a strip of eight layers, then opened so that on one side there are two layers of bandage (to the gum), and on the other - six (to the lip). Put the mixture inside (so that it does not extend beyond the edges of the bandage) and shove it between the cheek and gum (where it hurts). Hold for 15-25 minutes (pull out with severe burning, rinse mouth thoroughly). Make an appointment with the dentist.
We were on vacation, a tooth suddenly fell ill and there was a temperature. Painkillers only relieved pain for 2 hours, and then not completely. After 2 cloves of garlic (chewed on a bad tooth, spat out) it immediately became easier. I chewed it again at night, the pain was gone, in the morning still for prevention, there was no more pain at all. So only garlic saved. Painkillers did not help. We could only treat a tooth for a fee, and it is not known how. Thanks to the garlic.
After a minute, the toothache subsided, after half an hour I already ate chicken meat. I did not find how it affects the tooth through the pulse on the Internet, with sensitive skin it is possible through a rag, but the effect on toothache is strongest. Ketanov works slower + after him you don’t feel anything at all, but here you are the same person. And you don’t have to try folk methods, they are hundreds of years old, and your pills and their contraindications ... In general, garlic is a power, I try it on myself.
The article is clearly custom-made. Everyone needs money, they don’t give a damn about patients. Dentists and healthy teeth are treated.
Garlic is power. Natural antibiotic, no need to blame him. Nature created it for man. Be healthy!
A tooth fell ill, not even a tooth, and the root alone remained there. The whole side around the tooth became sick, pain aching, persistent - terrible! She put analgin on the tooth, around her cheek a little numb, and the tooth both hurt and hurt. In the morning I remembered about garlic, cut a slice and a tooth. A little later, the pain began to pass! Then, still in the evening, she got a little sick, put it down again, and after all!
I did not believe about garlic. Always rinsed with salt, soda and iodine, or drank medicine. Today it is so twisted that at least a howl. And nothing helps. She began to chew garlic - in a minute it became easier.
Now I will try, later I will unsubscribe without lies. The article is clearly custom ...
It helped, and on slightly dried garlic. Then he ran off for juicy garlic, plucked more tissue around the tooth, and the tooth itself passed. Before that, he broke away and was sick for a couple of days.
My daughter cried weight day. Only in the evening I remembered about garlic, put it on her tooth, and after a minute I looked - my daughter had already fallen asleep. So garlic is the best remedy for toothache.
I tried a bunch of tools, it does not help. I'm going to try the garlic. Unsubscribe ...
I almost went crazy at night with pain. A sharp pain in the wisdom tooth, screaming like crazy - without garlic until morning I would not have lived out simply.
The flux was inflated on half of the cheek. I am on watch, the dentist is something from the category of science fiction. On the second evening he was about to break the abscess himself, took a bottle of vodka as an anesthetic. Put garlic in the slurry to the wrist - an abscess erupted within 15 minutes. Half an hour rinsing with disinfectants. I sit in prostration, because I believed in garlic last.
It helps, even dried (dried) garlic. I cut a clove in half, wrapped it with a bandage (and it’s not necessary to wind it tightly so that it directly presses in). It helps a lot.
Garlic compress on the wrist - several times helped me reliably with severe pain. You just need to lubricate the application site with sunflower oil so as not to burn the skin.
Hello. I read the article and tied the garlic to my left hand, where the pulse (tooth ache on the right side), in the hope that the pain will go away at night. The pain didn’t go away, but in the morning it also burned the brush ((To whom, but the garlic did not help me.
Thanks for the comments left) Thanks to them, my tooth calmed down. Ill very well.
The article is competent, but oddly enough, garlic really helps! Still, folk remedies rule! Still helps a decoction of lilacs, but it grows only in the spring.
Helps a lot. At night she put it on her wrist, slept like a murdered woman. The pain passed in the morning.
The miracle of garlic! All week tormented by pain in a wisdom tooth, painkillers acted only for an hour, and then not until the end.Today I put garlic on a bad tooth, five minutes - and the pain went away, as if it didn’t hurt. At first, however, there was severe tapping pain as soon as I applied it, but then everything went away.
Hello! I'm afraid it’s too early to calm down. In this case, the most probable reason for the disappearance of pain is the death of the "nerve" inside the tooth due to the aggressive effects of garlic juice. If the tooth had a carious cavity, then the application of garlic caused the penetration of active substances into the pulp chamber. In fact, necrosis of the neurovascular bundle occurred, as a result of which in the near future (if nothing is done) it is worth waiting for the development of periodontitis, and the only question is what form it will be: with a fistula, with or without a cyst.
In any case, these actions using traditional medicine exclude only the effect (pain), and not the cause. Therefore, despite the disappearance of the pain reaction, I recommend that you consult a doctor in the near future in order to treat the problematic wisdom tooth intrachannel, rather than waiting for what happens next.
I have a hole in my tooth. Garlic is a miracle, I advise you all.