How to quickly relieve toothache caused by internal heat

If the air is dry, or if you eat spicy food for a long time, it is easy to cause your body to get inflamed. When it comes to getting angry, swollen and painful gums are very common. So, is there any way to quickly reduce the inflammation that causes swollen and painful gums? Today we will introduce some tips to help you solve this problem.

What to do if your gums are swollen and painful due to inflammation

1. Watermelon

Chinese medicine believes that watermelon is sweet and cold in nature. Eating it appropriately in daily life can effectively clear away heat and relieve summer heat. In addition, watermelon also has the effects of purging fire and relieving restlessness, stimulating appetite, and aiding digestion. Especially for men who have difficulty urinating or have yellow urine, eating more watermelon in daily life can effectively promote urination.

2. Toothache caused by excessive heat

For this kind of toothache, you can soak the peppercorns in white wine for about ten minutes. At this time, take out the peppercorns and pour white wine into the painful area of ​​the tooth, which can immediately relieve the toothache.

3. Toothache caused by wind and fire

You can stir baking soda and honey together and make a paste. Dip a clean cotton ball in some baking soda paste and place it directly on the painful area, then bite it. Do this twice a day and you will find that the toothache has disappeared the next day.

4. Massage therapy - pressing the Hegu point

Hegu Point: Hegu Point belongs to the hand yangming large intestine meridian. Pressing it has the effects of dispelling wind and relieving pain, as well as unblocking meridians and opening the orifices. Open your thumb and index finger at 45 degrees. The intersection of the extended angle of the bone is the Hegu point. Or you can put your thumb and index finger together, and the acupoint is at the highest point of the muscle.

Pressing method: bend your thumb and press vertically on the Hegu point, pressing tightly and loosely, about once every two seconds, about 30 times per minute, and keep pressing for 20 minutes. When pressing, be careful to apply force in the direction of your little finger, rather than pressing straight up and down vertically along the back of your hand.

Tips: When pressing the acupoints, pay attention to applying a certain amount of force. There should be a feeling of soreness, numbness, and swelling under the acupoints. Usually the pain will gradually disappear within half an hour. If you have toothache on the left side, press the right Hegu point. If you have toothache on the right side, press the left Hegu point.

5. Sugarcane

Sugarcane is the most common fruit in autumn and winter. Chinese medicine points out that sugarcane is sweet and cold in nature, and has very effective effects of clearing away heat, promoting body fluid, and moistening dryness. Therefore, in our country, people often use sugarcane to treat people suffering from fever, loss of body fluid, irritability, thirst, nausea and vomiting, and the therapeutic effect is very obvious and effective.

6. Water Chestnut

Water chestnut is an underground fruit, which is generally common in southern my country and matures mainly in autumn. Chinese medicine believes that water chestnuts are sweet and cold in nature. Appropriate consumption can effectively clear the heat from the lungs and stomach. Not only that, water chestnuts also have extremely effective effects in resolving phlegm and eliminating accumulation. Therefore, patients with these uncomfortable symptoms should eat more of them in daily life.