A Few Simple Home-Made Fast-Acting Toothache Pain Relief

Toothache is a terrible pain that you should not wish even to your worst enemy. There are many reasons why toothache occurs the most common would be the presence of a tooth abscess or cavity. Let us say that the pain strikes late at night or in the early hours of the morning and there are no pain killers in the house to fight the pain with. What do you do?

The Homemade Toothache Pain Relief To Your Rescue

In such a situation (as well as when you prefer the homemade natural methods for fighting disease instead of the regular medical ways) you should know that nature had intended to have everything perfect and working and as such has a cure for every health problem.

Use garlic as the emergency toothache pain relief - mix a pinch of ground garlic with rock salt and then apply it to the tooth every 15 minutes until the pain completely disappears. Garlic has anti inflammatory, analgesic and antiseptic properties that are excellent for toothache. You could also use peppermint for this purpose. Just take about five grams of peppermint and drop it in a cup of boiling water (still on the fire), remove from fire and add a pinch of salt. Drink that at room temperature from time to time until the pan disappears.

Alcohol such as whiskey or brandy can be used for toothache pain relief as well. Just take a mouth full of whatever alcoholic drinks you have and swirl it in your mouth. The alcohol has the power of numbing the tissues and thereby reducing the pain considerably.

Then you have the modest clove which is touted to be an excellent home remedy for tooth ache. Take one clove and grind it slowly between your teeth. Whatever juice comes out of it, push it towards the affected tooth. Alternatively you could use a few drops of clove oil which is easily found everywhere. Put two-three drops of cotton and then show it to the affected tooth. This would bring about almost instant toothache pain relief.

There are plenty of home made remedies for toothache pain relief as you can see, however, they are meant to be temporary means to mange the situation until you could see a doctor. Pain is the alarm of the body; if the teeth are paining it means there is something wrong with it - and you should be able to find that what exactly the cause of the pain is and address it accordingly.

In most cases the problem would be an abscessed tooth or a cavity. The cavity could sometimes need to be removed with a local anesthesia, while in other cases there could be other complications if the decayed tooth has broken and fallen leaving only a jugged outline under the gums.