Folk remedies and methods for eliminating toothache at home

Acute toothache can be taken by surprise. To get rid of her forever, you need to see a dentist, but first can relieve toothache using folk remedieswith a quick painkiller effect. To choose the right remedy for self-relieving pain, you should be guided by common sense, knowledge about the causes of pain and the properties of the substances used in therapy.

Why do teeth hurt?

For no reason, toothache can not occur, it acts as a symptom of a disease or inflammatory process. Teeth can get sick on the background of:

• caries, pulpitis, periodontitis;
• tooth root abscess;
• gum disease;
• injuries
• neuralgic diseases.

Alternative methods are effective for relieving toothache provoked by flux, caries and gum disease. With a syndrome caused by neuralgia or joint diseases, such therapy is powerless. Therefore, when choosing alternative methods for toothache, its origin should be taken into account.

Universal folk recipes against toothache

Regardless of the cause of pain, the main task in eliminating them at home is not to provoke inflammation and not to harm a sick tooth. Therefore, the use of only gentle natural analgesics is permissible. The fastest and most effective folk remedies for toothache are:

• Rinse with iodine saline. A teaspoon of sea or table salt and 7 drops of iodine are dissolved in a glass of warm boiled water. You can apply the solution immediately after complete dissolution of the crystals of the substance. The intensity of pain decreases after 3-5 minutes. It is permissible to rinse your mouth no more than three times a day.
• Rinse with green tea and garlic. In 250 ml of boiling water, a tablespoon of green tea is brewed. The drink is infused for 15 minutes, after which it is necessary to add 5 cloves of garlic, grated on a fine grater. The mixture should be infused for another ten minutes, and then strain. Immediately before use, tea should be warmed up to a comfortable room temperature.

Rinsing is not the only way to get rid of toothache at home, in which garlic is used. You can just grate the clove of the vegetable and attach the resulting slurry to the inflamed gum, the essential oils contained in it will help eliminate the pain syndrome and have an antiseptic effect.

• Lotion with valerian. A cotton pad is cut into 4 parts, one piece is impregnated with alcohol infusion of valerian and placed on a sore tooth. As necessary, the swab is replaced with a new one.
• Compress with salt, onion and garlic. To prepare anesthetic paste, grate the onions and garlic on a fine grater and mix the resulting gruel with salt. All the ingredients you need to take a teaspoon. The paste is applied to the diseased tooth and covered with a cotton swab. Compress eliminates pain in just a few minutes. You can use this method of anesthesia an unlimited number of times a day.

Rinse the mouth with herbal decoctions

Warm broths for rinsing are effective for toothaches of any nature. The simplest folk remedy that helps to quickly eliminate toothache is rinsing with soda and salt: in a glass of warm boiled water, half a teaspoon of soda and three drops of iodine are diluted. The solution anesthetizes the tooth and disinfects the oral cavity.

To prepare 250 ml of herbal decoction, 1 tablespoon of dried medicinal plants is used. Raw materials are poured into a glass of boiling water and boiled in a water bath for 10 minutes, after which it is filtered. You can use the product after cooling.

The most effective are decoctions based on:

• sage;
• peppermint;
• oak bark;
• echinacea;
• chamomile flowers;
• eucalyptus.

The useful analgesic effect of herbal rinses is recognized even by dentists, but when using them, you must follow safety precautions:

• The broth for rinsing the inflamed gums and diseased teeth should be warm, too hot or cold liquid can provoke an increase in inflammation.
• Medicinal herbs can cause severe allergic reactions. in the form of a rash and swelling of the oral cavity, which can spread to the larynx, bronchi and even the lungs. Therefore, during the initial application of each herbal collection, no more than 50 g of decoction should be used.

Lotions with essential oils

Essential oils have anesthetic effect on the nerve, causing its temporary numbness. The most effective painkillers are oils:

• lemon balm;
• cloves;
• Lemon
• geraniums;
• Basilica
• kayaputovogo tree;
• eucalyptus;
• fir.

Method of application: two or three drops of essential oil are applied to the cotton wool, which is applied to the diseased tooth for 5-7 minutes.

Essential oils are very concentrated, therefore it is forbidden to drip more than four drops and exceed the compress holding time: the risk of burns of the mucous membrane and the occurrence of a sharp headache is high. Repeat the procedure no more often than every 2 hours.

Alternative care for tooth root abscess

It is possible to determine that the pain syndrome is caused by an abscess of the tooth root by the presence of edema from the affected tooth. A lump (flux) is usually felt in the root zone. The pain is constant, has a pulsating and bursting nature, body temperature may increase.

Folk remedies against toothache caused by flux are aimed not only at anesthesia, but also at slowing down the inflammatory process. However, with a developing root abscess, only a doctor using special equipment can determine the extent and stage of the inflammatory process and prescribe adequate treatment.

Compress

A compress against flux helps to relieve pain and reduce swelling. To prepare it, a teaspoon of sugar is mixed with a teaspoon of extra salt and half a teaspoon of black pepper. Then, three percent table vinegar in the amount of one teaspoon is added to the mixture - a thick slurry should turn out.

When all the ingredients are added, the mixture is heated in the microwave or over the fire until thickened. After the mass has cooled, it is superimposed on the sore spot.

Rinse with sage broth

To prepare a rinse, you need to combine half a liter of boiling water with 2 tablespoons of dried sage and insist the mixture under the lid until it cools completely. After the liquid has cooled, the broth should be filtered and divided into 2 portions. You need to use it twice a day. After the first rinse, the intensity of the pain will decrease, after the second - a slight decrease in edema will occur.

Blue clay

Blue clay helps fight edema more than serves as an anesthetic. At first use, the pain may intensify and not stop within the first 5-10 minutes after application.

A small piece of clay wrapped in sterile gauze is used.Clay is applied not to the tooth itself, which hurts, but to the gum. Reduction of edema is visible after the first application. And the pain disappears gradually: as the inflammatory process decreases.

Onion juice

A cotton swab dipped in raw onion juice is applied to the diseased tooth. Squeeze the juice from the onion in two ways: using a juicer or chopping the onion with a blender and squeezing the juice with gauze. You need to keep onion lotion on the tooth until the pain completely stops.

Toothache for caries

Caries is the most common dental disease. It begins with a barely perceptible dark spot on the enamel, the affected area subsequently grows, and gradually destroys the entire tooth. Quickly relieve toothache caused by caries, you can folk remedies, but the disease itself is treated only by filling in a dental office.

To understand that toothache is caused precisely by caries, you can examine the sore spot with a mirror. If the enamel has dark or light spots, the likelihood of caries is very high. The pain is characterized by a short duration of seizures, clear localization, sensitivity to temperature extremes. Pain can occur when eating sweet, salty, or sour foods.

The best ways to relieve pain in caries:

• Camphor alcohol. It should be generously applied to a small piece of cotton swab, which is applied to the diseased tooth for an hour and a half. The gum near the affected area is slightly lubricated with camphor alcohol, it is impossible to leave a swab moistened in it on the gum, since the substance can cause a burn.
• Novocainic rinse. Two hundred milliliters of 10 percent novocaine is mixed with whipped protein in fresh eggs and a teaspoon of extra salt. Rinse the mouth for 5-7 minutes. The remedy is especially effective if the tooth hurts under the filling.
• Unrefined vegetable oil. To quickly relieve pain, a tablespoon of vegetable oil at room temperature is rolled in the mouth for ten minutes.

Pulpitis Aid

Acute pulpitis

Without proper treatment, caries can go into pulpitis. The pain syndrome with it is more pronounced, it occurs for no reason, the intensity of the pain is very high. Attacks last a long time, they are especially pronounced at night.

It is possible to slightly reduce inflammation and quickly relieve toothache with pulpitis with the same folk remedies as with an tooth root abscess.

Effective recipes against pulpitis

• In a half tablespoon of soda, add a few drops of lemon juice and twenty drops of hydrogen peroxide. The mixture is laid in the hollow of a diseased tooth and is used to anesthetize the gums. The intensity of the pain syndrome decreases markedly after fifteen minutes.
• Lay half of the No-shpa tablets in the tooth cavity. If the inflammatory process has begun under a filling, the tablet is applied to the posterior wall of the tooth. No-spa relieves pain gradually: as it dissolves.

Controversial methods of traditional medicine

The most famous folk remedies that relieve toothache at home are all kinds of lotions and applications. This fat and beets, and propolis, and vodka, and even pieces of ice. As a reflexology, it is proposed to apply a magnet to the cheek, a heating pad to the back of the head, and garlic to the arm opposite the diseased tooth. There are even tips that getting rid of a toothache will help pinching a certain point on the carotid artery.

The effectiveness of these tools is a big question, and the safety of the application does not hold water. In the best case, these funds will not produce a result, and in the worst, they will cause the opposite effect and add to health problems.

In people with vascular diseases, applying a heating pad to the back of the head can trigger a worsening condition, including a stroke. Ice can cause an attack of pain with damaged enamel, and with flux, it can provoke a sharp turn of inflammation.Beets, lard and a magnet work at best like a placebo.

Using folk remedies for tooth pain at home, it is important to remember that they are not a medicine and can not eliminate the disease that triggered the attack. They can relieve pain, remove or reduce the intensity of edema and somewhat suspend the inflammatory process, so it is advisable to use them exclusively as temporary anesthesia before visiting dentistry. It is impossible to equate folk recipes from toothache to a full-fledged treatment that guarantees a prolonged effect.