Folk remedies for quick relief of toothache

Perhaps the main rule, according to which you can use folk remedies for toothache, is: to relieve pain - this does not mean to cure the disease. Even the most effective and safe folk remedies can be used to relieve toothache only as a temporary support measure. You need to understand that in case of serious problems with the teeth, they will not save you from a visit to the dentist, but only help to endure the discomfort before receiving a doctor.

Accordingly, it is not worth using folk remedies only in order to postpone, postpone, or, even less, cancel the visit to the doctor. It may save from a toothache, but such an approach is fraught with dangerous complications, among which tooth loss is far from the worst.

Having made these important reservations, we note a couple more. When choosing a suitable folk remedy for toothache, strictly follow the recommendations for its preparation and use: some of the funds described below are not always safe, and they have certain contraindications. And some recipes, on the contrary, are completely safe, but their effectiveness is completely different from what traditional healers promise.

The objective of this article is to just consider the most famous folk remedies for toothache, and help the reader to figure out whether they will be effective or useless, and also help to understand in which cases the use of appropriate means will be justified, and in which - not.

On a note

Obviously, folk recipes, tools and methods for getting rid of toothache are much more than can be described in one review. We will consider the most popular and often used in practice, which underlie many other variations.

But let's talk about everything in order ...

 

Causes of toothache and general principles of pain relief

It’s important to understand that toothache never occurs just like that. As a rule, the appearance of such pain is a symptom of a pathological process in the tooth, periosteum, gum, or the jaw itself.

In some cases, a toothache may appear briefly and go away on its own without any treatment. For example, it can occur with irritation of the gums by food, quickly passing small inflammations in the soft tissues, and for some other reasons. In these cases, the pain is usually quite mild, and, as a rule, a person does not even think about how to remove it with something.

If the pain is strong and prolonged (or regular), then in most cases this means that its cause is also very serious. It can be, for example:

1. Deep caries, in which the tooth can be sick from chemical, thermal and mechanical irritants.
2. Pulpitis is an inflammation of the pulp (dental "nerve").
3. Periodontitis is an inflammation of the tissues that surround the root of a tooth. This disease can often be accompanied by the appearance of fistulas and leakage of pus.
4. Periostitis is an inflammation of the periosteum, usually developing if periodontitis is not treated, but only periodically suppress pain.
5. Osteomyelitis is an inflammation of the bone tissue of the jaw.

Most folk remedies can only reduce toothache with such pathologies, but not completely remove it. Moreover, if with caries or pulpitis in the early stages, such a decrease will be significant, then the pain associated with severe purulent inflammation will not ease in all cases, depending on the neglect of the problem.

On a note

There are no folk remedies that allow you to "kill a nerve" in the tooth, which is sometimes dreamed by those who are ready to climb the wall in pain. Also, you can’t just wait, hoping that the pulp will eventually die by itself, and all the nerves in it will become insensitive.Of course, the pulp can die out, but then it will begin to rot, and right in the pulp chamber. Pus will have nowhere to go, and he will head towards the root of the tooth: this process will be accompanied by extensive inflammation at the root apex, which is fraught with abscess and sepsis, as well as monstrous pains that can not be helped by any folk remedy.

The main principles of anesthesia used in medical practice are:

1. Blocking the synthesis of substances that stimulate irritation of nerve endings during inflammation. This is how Ketanov, Ketorol, Nise, Analgin and many other drugs for various types of pain work.
2. Violation of the conduction of a nerve impulse in neurons - for example, the widely known Novocain and Lidocaine work.

Folk remedies work in a completely different way: with their help it is possible to slightly weaken the inflammatory process, which ultimately leads to a decrease in the intensity of pain.

 

Hot rinses for toothache

Rinsing your mouth with warm fluids is perhaps the most famous alternative method for relieving toothache for a short while. Often, doctors themselves prescribe it to their patients due to the safety and ease of use.

The most effective rinses are with purulent inflammation. When carrying out this procedure, blood circulation at the site of inflammation increases, the decay products of cells are removed from it faster, as a result of which the size of the inflammation, like the pain itself, slightly decreases.

Rinse your mouth with a liquid with a temperature of 50-60 ° C, but not higher, so as not to burn the mucous membrane. Rinses should be carried out as often as possible, literally every 15-20 minutes - and so for several hours before the pain is relieved.

Usually, for toothache, it is recommended to rinse your mouth with salt water or water with soda (often both are combined). You can use just plain water or tea. Folk remedies in the form of herbal decoctions will provide an even more pronounced effect for pain in the tooth. We will talk about them further.

Important!

In case of toothache, it is the mouth that needs to be rinsed, or rather, the sore spot in it. It makes no sense to throw your head back and out of habit blow bubbles in your throat.

Due to its safety and effectiveness, mouthwash is the best alternative way to relieve toothache in a child. When the pain is relieved only a few hours or days before the visit to the dentist, and the disease itself is not started, rinsing will allow you to quite comfortably endure the treatment itself.

 

Less traditional folk recipes

The following folk remedies for toothache are no longer as traditional as mouth rinses:

1. A swab moistened with fir oil, which is applied to a diseased tooth. Fir oil really has some anti-inflammatory properties, but only in rare cases it helps to relieve toothache.
2. A slice of salted pork fat is applied to a diseased tooth and kept for about 20 minutes. The method is practically useless, even if you consider that the salt is able to draw pus from the inflamed area.
3. Propolis, which is either temporarily placed on the tooth, or is pressed directly into the cavity and go on for several days. In the first case, the option is useless, but also harmless. In the second case, such a folk remedy is frankly harmful: an improvised filling from propolis can serve as an excellent food for carious bacteria, which will only lead to accelerated tooth decay. However, blockage of the carious cavity is really capable sometimes of reducing painful sensations if the tooth previously reacted to acidic, salty or sweet.
4. An aqueous solution of a product of alternative medicine such as a mummy is moistened with a tampon and applied to a diseased tooth. This folk remedy is especially often used in children.According to reviews, it may give some result, but it is usually mild, and completely relieving toothache in most cases will not help.
5. Warm broth of strawberries, which rinse your mouth - helps not so much due to strawberries, but due to the very fact of rinsing with a warm liquid.
6. Propolis is poured with 70% alcohol, infused for 10 days and filtered through gauze. This remedy will only help with mild pain in the gums (a moistened swab is applied) - primarily due to the vasodilating and antiseptic properties of ethyl alcohol. According to literary sources, this folk remedy is especially recommended for pregnant women.
7. In 50 ml of wine alcohol you need to dilute 15 grams of myrrh, add 15 grams of raspberry, orchis and mint leaves to it, insist 3 days. The resulting tincture either rinses the mouth, or a swab is moistened, which is then applied to the diseased tooth or gum. The method is ineffective, and it will not allow to remove a strong toothache.
8. Garlic is cut and applied to the place of the hand where the pulse rate is checked, and then wrapped with a bandage. Some people think that this folk remedy works for toothache in the placebo mode - it doesn’t eliminate the cause of the pain, but due to the person’s right mood, it has a certain effect (the person himself starts to believe that the pain goes away).

In general, all the folk remedies listed above and the like from severe toothache will not help. But be prepared for the fact that advocates of alternative medicine will especially advise you to them.

 

Anti-inflammatory recipes

Some anti-inflammatory decoctions more or less effectively relieve pain caused by soft tissue inflammation. In fact, their effect is similar to plain or salty hot water, but is additionally more pronounced due to the antiseptic and anti-inflammatory effects of biologically active plant components.

Here are some fairly well-known folk recipes for such remedies for toothache:

1. 25 g of peppermint and 25 g of oregano are poured with 0.5 liters of water, boiled for 2-3 minutes, slightly cooled and filtered;
2. 100 g of chamomile flowers, 100 g of blackcurrant leaves and 40 g of the string are poured with a liter of boiling water, an hour is insisted and filtered;
3. 50 g of yarrow grass, 50 g of immortelle flowers and 50 g of plantain leaves are poured with a liter of boiling water, infused and filtered.

It is only important to understand that a significant effect in such cases is provided precisely due to the temperature of the rinse solution itself. Therefore, before the procedure, the product must be heated to 60 ° C.

The beauty of such folk remedies lies in the fact that they are easy enough to cook at home, and if a tooth hurts, literally within an hour and a half, you can organize an effective decoction.

In acute pulpitis, such drugs are ineffective. Moreover, a toothache in such a situation from hot can only intensify many times.

 

Ways of auto-suggestion: do they work?

It may seem surprising, but there are also a whole range of alternative methods that help relieve toothache altogether without the use of any means. They are based primarily on self-hypnosis and the ability of a person to control his sensations and, if necessary, completely “turn off” the pain.

The most effective and even experimentally confirmed techniques from yoga. They allow you to completely relieve toothache of any strength, but for their use you need to train for a very long time and have a good command of your body and your thoughts. A person who has never practiced yoga, of course, will not be able to use them.

The techniques of self-hypnosis and simple hypnosis work similarly. But they also require good methodological training.Just like that, without experience and knowledge, it’s impossible to take and bring yourself into a state in which the toothache goes away.

Popular prayers and toothache conspiracies in most cases, they can only do harm. Even if the pain goes away (and such cases really happen), then this does not bring a cure - the problem remains. And if you let it drift for several months or years, then in the future it will lead to much more serious consequences than if a person immediately went to the dentist.

Feedback

“I remember in childhood envious of those people who are shown on TV and who pierce their hands and feet with needles and do not feel pain. I did not have the goal of doing yoga, but as I immersed myself in meditative practices, I began to engage in this direction. And although I have not yet reached the level of my teachers, I relieve toothache if necessary in 5-6 minutes, and pain after a severe bruise - almost immediately. ”

Leonid Konstantinovich, Moscow

 

"Folk" pills for toothache

Some popular analgesics have become a kind of "gold standard" in home medicine, that is, they have become almost popular. And therefore it is impossible not to say about them.

Pills are very quick and effective remedies for toothache, and some of the drugs help reliably relieve even acute toothache.

So, we note the most popular pharmaceutical preparations for toothache among the people:

1. Aspirin, which significantly alleviates pain and relieves inflammation. If the pain is too severe, it does not completely eliminate the symptoms, but it allows you to "survive" before a visit to the doctor. Contraindicated in pregnancy, lactation and in childhood.
2. Analgin is a fairly effective analgesic drug, but because of its ability to strongly influence blood formation, it has many contraindications. For example, it should not be taken with agranulocytosis, anemia, pregnancy, lactation, renal and liver failure. Analgin is prohibited for use in many developed countries.
3. Nimesil is a powder that dentists themselves often prescribe to their patients, for example, after tooth extraction. It allows you to completely stop even very severe pain, but in pharmacies it is sold only by prescription.
4. Ketanov and its analogues - Ketorol, Ketorolac. These are perhaps the most powerful tools to quickly remove toothache. But they can be considered folk only with a big stretch - they are sold only by prescription and have a large number of contraindications.

In the vast majority of cases, if the pain is not too sharp and is not accompanied by an extensive tumor, Aspirin and Analgin are quite enough to make a person feel normal and get a quick effect. It is not surprising that these funds are taken from toothache more often than traditional decoctions and infusions.

 

What can be the use of folk remedies?

When using any means, including folk remedies, you should always remember about contraindications and possible side effects. For example, most herbal recipes can sometimes cause severe allergic reactions, even when rinsing your mouth.

There are also means that are clearly harmful for toothache. For instance:

1. Honey, which is sometimes recommended to regularly smear a bad tooth. With the constant presence of honey or its traces in the cavity, the activity of cariogenic bacteria will only increase, which will entail increased pain. And some caries-affected teeth are generally very sensitive to sweets.
2. Drinking alcohol inward to reduce pain. Effective, but carries more harm than good.
3. Applying Aspirin to a diseased tooth. It will not give an effect, since aspirin from toothache should only be taken orally.
4. Warming dressings outside - with severe purulent inflammation, they only increase the risk of complications.

And remember: folk remedies can remove toothache, but not cure the disease.If you just remove the pain and forget about its cause, then you can play out before the development of life-threatening complications - sepsis or phlegmon.

It may seem surprising to some, but because of the consequences of neglected dental diseases, people are dying today - due to serious complications, which, although rare, sometimes lead to death. However, serious complications never appear in a healthy person in a few days - all of them are usually the result of a person suffering pain or regularly trying to calm her down with improvised means, including folk ones, and until the last draws a visit to the doctor.

Therefore, if you have a toothache, then call the dental clinic as soon as possible and make an appointment. Dental treatment today is almost painless, and the money given for it is an investment in your health and well-being. Do not run yourself and be healthy!

 

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