How to quickly reduce swelling and pain in a tooth

Many people experience toothaches. There are many reasons for toothaches, such as tooth decay or inflammation. Toothaches caused by inflammation are mostly swollen and painful gums. Many people think that toothaches are not serious illnesses, but toothaches are really life-threatening. When you have a toothache, you can’t eat or sleep, and your mood becomes very bad. Therefore, relieving pain is very important when you have a toothache. So, how can you quickly reduce the swelling of swollen and painful gums?

Self-therapy

1. Boil 12g of Xu Changqing in water twice, mix and take in 2 doses, 1 dose per day.

2. Decoction 30 grams of verbena in water, one dose per day.

3. Boil 15 grams of gallnut into a concentrated juice and gargle with it.

4. Take 30g each of Heshi, Gypsum, and Rehmannia root, 12g of Ophiopogon japonicus, 20g of Cyathula capitata, and 9g of Anemarrhena asphodeloides, decocted in water, and taken 3 times a day, 1 dose per day.

5. Take 1 scallion and 15 grams of alum, mash them together and apply them to the toothache area, changing them every 5 hours. This prescription is suitable for toothache caused by various reasons, including toothache due to real fire, toothache due to false fire, toothache due to caries, etc. Toothache is a common symptom caused by various dental diseases and diseases such as periodontitis.

6. 2 cloves of old garlic and 5 grams of light powder. Mash the two and apply them to the Jingqu acupoint, cover it with a small clam shell, or cover it with other objects, tie it up, and after a while you will feel a slight burning sensation, peel off the peel and there will be a blister inside. Prick it with a needle, and let the yellow water flow out and the acupoint will be healed. The Jingqu point is located at the base of the thumbs of both hands, in the small depression below the pulse.

7. Take 6 grams of ginger, 6 grams of garlic, 12 grams of tea leaves and 12 grams of Clematis chinensis, mash the medicines, mix with sesame oil and egg white, and apply externally on Hegu and Yongquan acupoints. This prescription is mainly used to treat toothache caused by false fire and kidney yin deficiency.

8. Peel 2-3 single-headed garlic, put them on the stove and cook until cooked. Cut them while they are still hot and apply them to the painful area with hot water. Replace the garlic when it cools down. Repeat this process several times. This prescription is used to treat toothache and has the effects of sterilization and detoxification.

Dietary self-therapy

1. Boil 100 grams of mung beans and 15 grams of licorice in water, remove the residue, eat the beans and drink the soup, twice a day, one dose per day.

2. Boil 1 pig kidney, a little salt, and 15 grams of Drynaria fortunei in water, eat the meat and drink the soup, 1 dose per day. It is used for those suffering from kidney deficiency, floating teeth, hidden toothache, which is prone to occur after fatigue.

3. Take an appropriate amount of brown sugar and a handful of buckwheat roots, decoct in water, and take it in several times. Used to treat toothache in children.

4. Boil appropriate amount of pork and 30 grams of fresh water celery root in water and take it in several times.

5. 100 grams of fresh ginger and 500 grams of loofah. Wash the fresh loofah and cut it into sections. Wash the fresh ginger and slice it. Add two leaves to water and boil for 3 hours. Drink soup twice a day. This prescription is used to treat swollen and painful gums, dry mouth and nose, and bleeding nasal membranes (nosebleeds). It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, reducing swelling and relieving pain.