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Friday, July 25, 2025

Home Remedies for Toothaches

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Leah Lewis
2166 days ago
20190823

There are times when you can ig­nore a lit­tle flash of pain in a tooth, and there are times when a tooth de­mands your at­ten­tion by mak­ing you wince in pain. You may not al­ways know what to do when this hap­pens, sim­ply be­cause you may not know why your tooth is hurt­ing.

Ac­cord­ing to ex­perts, toothaches can be caused by a num­ber of things, in­clud­ing in­fec­tion of the tooth, tooth de­cay (cav­i­ties), loose fill­ings, food stuck be­tween teeth, gum dis­ease, si­nus in­fec­tion and more. As long as your pain per­sists for more than two days, you must def­i­nite­ly see your den­tist and get to the root of your pain.

Un­til your ap­point­ment comes around, here are a few reme­dies that you can try at home to ease the throb­bing pain and dis­com­fort of a toothache.

Clove Oil

Clove oil con­tains the ac­tive in­gre­di­ent eugenol, which nat­u­ral­ly helps to numb and re­duce pain to ease a toothache. Eugenol al­so has nat­ur­al an­ti-in­flam­ma­to­ry prop­er­ties. To use clove oil, di­lute it by adding a few drops to equal parts of co­conut or olive oil. Dab a piece of cot­ton in­to the mix­ture and ap­ply to the af­fect­ed tooth for al­most im­me­di­ate re­lief. It is im­por­tant that you do not use the oil in its con­cen­trat­ed form, es­pe­cial­ly for pro­longed pe­ri­ods of time, as this can put you at risk of po­ten­tial­ly harm­ful side ef­fects. If you are preg­nant or breast­feed­ing, be sure to seek your den­tist’s guid­ance be­fore us­ing this method.

Char­coal

Char­coal has the amaz­ing abil­i­ty to trap tox­ins, harm­ful bac­te­ria and yeast, as well as tox­ic chem­i­cals by pre­vent­ing their mul­ti­pli­ca­tion or ab­sorp­tion in the body. When ap­plied di­rect­ly to an aching tooth, char­coal helps to im­me­di­ate­ly al­le­vi­ate pain by re­duc­ing in­flam­ma­tion. To use char­coal for your toothache, crush one char­coal tablet and ap­ply the pow­der di­rect­ly on to your tooth as need­ed. This can be done lib­er­al­ly as char­coal is quite safe, with no known side ef­fects. You can find char­coal tablets at your near­est phar­ma­cy.

Thyme, Chadon Beni and Bay Leaf Mouth­wash

These back­yard herbs and spices are far more use­ful than the great flavour that they add to our dish­es. Their med­i­c­i­nal prop­er­ties are quite po­tent, as both thyme and chadon beni have an­timi­cro­bial and an­ti­sep­tic prop­er­ties, and bay leaves are nat­u­ral­ly an­ti-in­flam­ma­to­ry and anaes­thet­ic (pain numb­ing). To cre­ate this mouth­wash, boil a few thyme leaves (of any kind) with five to six large chadon beni leaves and two to three bay leaves, un­til the brew is brown in colour. Let cool and add one tea­spoon of salt. You may rinse the mouth with this as of­ten as de­sired to al­le­vi­ate pain and lessen the sever­i­ty of a present in­fec­tion. Per­sons with high blood pres­sure may ex­clude salt from this mouth­wash.

Cold com­press

One sim­ple pain re­liev­er that re­duces swelling and throb­bing pain is cold­ness. To cre­ate a com­press, add a few blocks of ice to a seal­able plas­tic bag, wrap it in a tow­el and ap­ply to the area of pain in the face for in­ter­vals of 10 min­utes. This should give some im­me­di­ate re­lief.

Re­mem­ber, these meth­ods will not cure your toothache al­to­geth­er, but they sure­ly will help you to sur­vive the wait un­til you can see your den­tist. I hope that these reme­dies will help you along your jour­ney to bet­ter health.


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