Toothache Tips

Cloves

Cloves can be found in the spice rack and are often used in apple dishes, but they are also one of the best-known home remedies for a toothache.

• To relieve the pain of a mild toothache, chew two cloves on the affected tooth. 
• If chewing is too painful, you can use oil of cloves. 
• Mix 3 drops oil of cloves with a quarter teaspoon of olive oil. 
• Soak a cotton ball or gauze pad in this mixture and rub it over the painful tooth and gum. 
• Then keep it against the affected tooth by biting down on it. 
• You should feel better within 10 minutes or less. 

Salt

Salt can be a very effective remedy for a toothache as well as any gum infection or sore in the mouth, especially where bacteria are at the root of the problem.

•  Dissolve one teaspoon of salt in a small glass of lukewarm (body temperature) water. 
• Take a sip and swirl it around the mouth, working it through the gaps between the teeth where possible. 
• Do not swallow. 
• Just spit it out and then take another sip and repeat. 
•  By the time you finish the glass your pain should be much less. 
• If it comes back later, just repeat. 
• Even if you stay pain-free, it is a good idea to do this after every meal for a few days. 
• It will help clear any bacteria that might be forming around food particles in the mouth and prevent the problem from recurring. 
•  If you have salt crystals, then alternatively you can take one or two and press them against the painful place with your tongue until they dissolve. 

Tea tree oil

Tea tree oil is a natural antiseptic that can be used to relieve the agony of a toothache in much the same way as oil of cloves.

• Alternatively, add a few drops to a small glass of water and swirl around the mouth before spitting out. 

Ice

Ice can numb the pain and reduce swelling in the mouth as well as on joint sprains and strains.

• Either hold an ice cube against the painful tooth in the mouth or make an ice pack from ice wrapped in a cloth or a pack of frozen food and hold it against your cheek where you have pain. 
• If you use frozen food as an ice pack, you should throw it away when you are done. 
• It will have partially thawed and it is not safe to refreeze and eat. 

Lower The Head 

• Increase blood flow to the head by putting your head between your knees, as if you were feeling faint.
• Combined with other methods this will strengthen the body's ability to fight the infection.
• See your dentist or doctor if home remedies for a toothache do not resolve your problem.

Healing Process

This is an overview of a healing process that you might consider or at least ponder:

These are remedies you can use for your problem in order from safest to most dangerous: Step 0 is the safest; Step 6 the most dangerous. Use Steps 0, 1, 2 and 3 as preventive medicine. Prevention is an important, though often invisible, way of healing. Deep relaxation, information exchange, energetic engagement, optimum nourishment (including touch) and exercise promote health with little or no side effects.

Examples are in parenthesis: (with a few of the modalities available at each step)

Step 0: Do Nothing 
A vital, invisible step.

• sleep
• meditate
• unplug the clock or the telephone

Step 1: Collect Information 

• low-tech diagnosis
• books
• support groups
• research

Step 2: Engage the Energy 

• prayer
• homeopathy
• ceremony
• affirmations
• color
• laughter

Step 3: Nourish and Tonify 

• herbal infusions and vinegars
• hugs
• exercise
• food choices
• gentle massage
• yoga stretches

     Note: Healing with Steps 4, 5, and 6 always causes some harm.

Step 4: Stimulate/Sedate 

For every stimulation/sedation, there is an opposite sedation/stimulation. Sooner or later addiction is possible if this step is overused

• hot or cold water
• many herbal tinctures
• acupuncture

Step 5a: Use Supplements

• synthesized or concentrated vitamins
• fresh juices
• minerals
• food substances such as nutritional yeast, blue-green algae, bran, royal jelly or spirulina

Supplements are not Step 3. There’s always a risk with synthesized concentrated substances that they’ll do more harm than good.

Step 5b: Use Drugs 

Overdose may cause grave injury or death.

• chemotherapy
• tamoxifen
• hormone
• high dilution homeopathics
• potentially toxic herbs

Step 6: Break and Enter 

Side effects are inevitable and may include permanent injury or death.

• threatening language
• surgery
• colonics
• radiation therapies
• psychoactive drugs
• invasive diagnostic tests such as mammograms and C-T scans

HOW TO USE THE SIX STEPS OF HEALING

If you want to remedy your problem with the least possible side effects and danger,

• start at Step 1.
• After reading Step 1, pick one remedy from Step 2 and set a time limit for working with it. If your problem is unresolved within that time, decide if the time limit needs expanding or if you are ready to go to Step 3.
• Continue in this manner, moving to Steps 4, 5 or 6 as needed, until your problem is solved.

Each step up increases the possibility of side effects and their severity so try at least one of the Step 2 techniques, even if they seem strange to you, before going onto the remedies of Step 3 and beyond (note also that time spent at Step 2 will help you choose appropriate remedies at Step 3 and so on). When your problem is resolved don’t stop. Go back through the steps, in reverse, before resting at Step 0.

You can continue to take remedies from a previous Step after moving on, but be cautious about the use of Step 4 remedies in combination with Step 5 remedies.

If you deem it necessary to heal through Step 5 and/or 6 (and real healing can and does take place with the aid of drugs and surgery) and have not yet tried any techniques from Steps 2 and 3, do so immediately. Engaging the energy, nourishing and tonifying will aid and abet the healing powers of the more dangerous healing ways and help prevent or moderate their side effects.

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• The Healing Touch (templeofhealthcare.wordpress.com)
• Intuition and Natural Healing (juliehansenintuitive.com)
• Cayenne Pepper the Healing Catalyst (drdebbys.wordpress.com)
• Survive and Thrive: Healing Crisis (theanjananetwork.net)
• The Quantum of Health and Healing (healcitylife.wordpress.com)