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This week I had to write my article a little aheadof time as I will be out of the office for a fewdays.

I went for an annual cleaning at my dentist and aroutine X-ray showed that my lower wisdomteeth had turned sideways and were nowcompletely impacted.

I had put it off long enough and it was finally timeto schedule in to get them removed. I was luckythis time that they hadn’t caused me any painand have not started to damage my other teeth,but I really started to think and I realized onevery important thing…

You can’t schedule a toothache and it never failsthat a major toothache hits when it’s late at nightand your dentist’s office is closed, or you’resomewhere remote and getting to a dentist any time soon is just not an option.

Anyone who has ever had the misfortune of a toothache knows that it is not just your mouth thathurts.

A toothache can be felt in just about every part of your body. I have had a few so bad that theymade me sick to my stomach from the pain alone.

Although in most cases only a doctor can cure the source of the problem, this list of treatments &pain relief remedies should get you through until you can visit the dentist.

It is important to note: If you have a toothache, there is a reason for it and it’s best to have it takencare of by a professional as soon as possible, rather than having it treated at home in hopes thatthe underlying issue will go away on its own. If it’s infected (if your gum area is swollen), don’t delayin getting professional medical care.

Directions: Apply the below remedies directly to both the problem tooth and surrounding gumsunless otherwise directed.

For items that direct you to chew, or for liquids that are to be swished around inside mouth, directthe liquid on and around the sore tooth as much as possible.

Do not swallow liquids. Rinse your mouth and spit them out when done.

Salt Water: Mix a heaping tablespoon full of salt in a small glass of warm water; swirlaround inside your mouth for as long as you can, spit out. Repeat as needed.

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Hydrogen Peroxide: Swoosh a bit of hydrogen peroxide. If the taste is too horrid for you,try diluting with a bit of water.

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Alcohol: Swoosh a bit of whiskey, scotch, brandy or vodka. A strong mouthwash thatcontains alcohol will do the trick too.

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Vanilla Extract: Saturate a cotton ball with vanilla and hold in place. Can also use a cottonswab dipped in extract.Other extracts that have the same effect are:Almond Extract

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Tea Tree Oil: Just a drop or two will do the trick. You can also add some to a cotton swaband hold in place or add a few drops of tea tree oil to a small glass of lukewarm to warmwater and rinse your mouth with it.

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Oil Of Oregano: Mix a few drops with a bit of olive oil, then saturate a cotton ball withmixture. Can replace the olive oil with lukewarm water if preferred.

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Apple Cider Vinegar: Soak a cotton ball with apple cider vinegar (ACV) and hold it in place.Can also try regular household vinegar.

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Ginger Root: Take a fresh piece of ginger and chew it a bit.8.

Garlic: Take a clove of garlic, smash it and apply (settle it inside cheek). You can also mashsome garlic with salt.

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Peppermint Leaves: Chew on fresh peppermint leaves. You can also dried leaves, justhold them in place.

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Potato: Cut a fresh piece of potato (raw, skin off) and hold in place. Can also pound a pieceof raw potato, mix in a bit of salt and use the mash.

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Lime: Cut a slice or wedge of lime and apply, bite into it if you can to release some of thejuice.

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Onion: Slice a piece of fresh onion and hold it inside your mouth. The onion needs to befreshly cut (so it provides a bit of onion juice).

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Plantain: Chew up a fresh plantain leaf. If you’re too sore to chew, use the other side ofyour mouth. Once the leaf is macerated a bit apply it to the problem area and hold in place.

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Cucumber: Slice a fresh piece of cucumber and hold it over the sore area. If refrigerated,you might want to bring the cucumber to room temperature before using (if sensitive to cold)otherwise a cool piece can be soothing.You can also mash a piece with a bit of salt andpack it around the sore tooth.

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Cayenne Pepper: Make a paste with cayenne pepper and water.16.

Black Pepper: You can use this full strength or make a mix of pepper and salt.17.

Baking Soda: Take a cotton swab and moisten it with a bit of water, dip it in baking soda(coat the swab really well with baking soda) then apply. You can also make a mouth rinse bymixing a heaping spoonful of baking soda in a small glass of lukewarm to warm water,dissolve the soda then swish the mixture in your mouth.

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Cloves: This is remedy from the old timers (my great grandparents), rest a clove againstthe sore area until pain goes away. You can also use a drop or two of clove oil (BECAREFUL: too much can be toxic) or make a thick paste of ground cloves and water orground cloves and olive oil.

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Tea: Make a fresh cup of tea then take the used tea bag (still warm) and stick it in yourmouth. Careful not to tear the bag. The tannins that are naturally in tea leaves can helpnumb things.

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Ice Pack: Cover an ice pack with a face cloth or towel then hold over your cheek where theproblem is. This will help numb things. Make sure that you have some type of cloth betweenyour skin and the ice, otherwise you can severely damage your skin.If that doesn’t work, trythe opposite–a hot compress (making sure that it is not so hot as to scald your skin).

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Tips

If the pain is unbearable and there’s no dentist available, call your local hospital’semergency room–chances are they have a dentist on call that can treat you (for a fee ofcourse).

Try gently brushing your teeth and flossing–this might bring some relief.

One old time remedy that you should not follow is to place an aspirin against the soretooth. You will have just as much if not more of an effect by swallowing the aspirin.Aspirin isactually an acid (acetylsalicylic acid to be exact) and placing it directly against your gums orteeth will cause corrosion of your teeth and acid burns on your gums.

If the side of your face is in severe pain and it feels like you’re going to lose your mind (I’vebeen there, done that)–it could be a sinus infection or an allergy that affects your sinusesrather than a problem tooth (even though it definitely feels like it).Try taking a decongestant


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or if that is not available, a shower set on the hottest setting may help clear your sinuscavities.This might help relieve things until you get to a doctor. Chances are a prescription antibioticis what you’ll need to clear up the sinus infection.

If it is a sinus infection please don’t wait to get it taken care of! I have permanent damageto my left eardrum from a sinus infection that became so congested it literally burst myeardrum as a pressure relief valve.

Have I missed any of your tried-and-true methods to relieve tooth and gum pain?

Please share it below in the comments section.

Please be aware: These are notes I have collected in my personal life over the years, in my ownresearch as well as tips gathered from my grandparents and great grandparents.

They are not by any means professional medical advice and a trained dentist should always becontacted as soon as possible.

P.S. If you have a toothache it may be in your best interest to go on a soft food diet until you get tothe dentist.

Click here to see what I ate for days after my surgery that has earned a permanent spot in mypantry.

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…and if the SHTF, then you won’t be doing this before you go to the dentist – you will be the dentist and will

have to figure it out yourself. Pull your own tooth? People used to do that!

You never apply heat to a tooth that may be infected or any area of infection. Heat & infections bad combo it

will spread like wildfire. I know heat feels good on it but it will spead infection

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I use baking soda passed down from over 5 generations on my mothers side. Just be sure to NOT use too often

or too much. With a well packed tooth brush, morning and night will bring WILL BRING almost instant healing.

God Bless you all.

Hi Joe;

Three points:

1. Several generations ago common people were as apt to go to the blacksmith for tooth removal as to the

dentist, if any existed in their area. My Grandfather showed me his special pliers that he used to pull teeth

when requested. This is a skill we may have to relearn.

2. A lot of pain is psychological. I have found that if I do not concentrate on the pain, it diminishes. People think

I have a “high threshold for pain”, which may be true. But I think it is mainly mental. Think about something

else; go about your daily work routine. Frequently the pain does go away spontaneously.

3. Doctor/hospital vs. home treatment: We’ve become brainwashed that every little thing deserves a trip to the

doctor, dentist, or hospital. What with the ever-increasing hospital acquired infestions and errors, it is best to

take care of the little things at home. Many home remedies do work. Exercize, good food, and vitamin

supplementation preclude many problems. Alternative medicines also frequently work, albeit sometimes

slower than prescription drugs. Generally they have no side effects. Can’t say that for the drugs.

Cheers! Stu.

Never heard or read about going to blacksmiths but I have come across several texts that stated

barbers also pulled teeth, at least out here in the southwest. I can even recall some movies such as

“Rooster Cogburn” or “True Grit” where that was done in the territories. Not important, just

commenting…..

Correct. The red on the barber pole signifies the blood from tooth extraction inside the barber

shop. Also why old dental chairs were basically the same as barber chairs.

Actually the red on the pole is for the barbaric blood-letting they used to do. Look that

up.

Two things I have found, used in conjunction with each other, that have worked to get rid of the infection and

make the swelling go down:

1) Colloidal Silver, in the strongest dilution you can find–I use 500 parts per million (which cost me ~$60 for an

8 oz bottle)–swirl it, 1/2 tsp at a time, about every 3 hours, in your mouth for at least 5 minutes, or as long as

you can, then swallow. Rinse with some fresh water, as the aftertaste is kind of nasty.

2) Go to your local farm store, or possibly PetSmart, or (hopefully buy it in advance) on-line at a vet supply site,

large animal veterinary grade tetracycline powder. It tases quite bitter, as well as sweet. 1/2 tsp, directly on the

tooth, hold it there as long as you can stand the taste, then rinse it down with water. About every 4-6 hours.

Also, an unused tea bag can be used directly on the tooth as well–it just tastes nastier than a used one. My

mother used them on me to stop the bleeding from my wisdom teeth removal, as well as an earlier abscessed

baby incisor than had to be removed when I was 12. It has kept me from liking tea for almost 50 years since!


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carol

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Rose

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Josh

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Ed

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Stephanie

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Mark

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remember tom hanks and ‘wilson’. He used a whitteled reed, or was it the blade on ice skates to release an

abcess. I have looked for dental pliers and see there are those for left, right, upper or lower. Please suggest

what to do for an abcess if there is no E room or doctor or dentist. Pliers… can we have a needle and novacaine

as well? I have had about 4 abcesses and you don’t know what a toothache is until that happens. What we need

is a missive on what actually to do if there is no medical help, and the tools to do it with. IE, if you can pull a

molar, don’t suck on that area, it could create a dry socket…we need information and tools for this possibility.

I have had a dry socket before. I was worst than giving birth. Felt like I was hit in the jaw with a sledge

hammer for days. Someone told me to rinse the area with salt water (a very strong salt solution) until it

was healed. I immediately began feeling relief within a few hours, Within a few days it was completely

healed. It also works for sore throats and earaches. For an earache, gargle with salt water on side where

ear hurts. Also sucking and slightly chewing on a garlic clove can help with infection also, just do it every

few hours till infection is gone. The russians use to use garlic to pack wounds and cure infections before

penicillin was available.

When I had my wisdom teeth pulled, the dentist only used novocain so I was awake for all 4 teeth. I saw

the tool he used and it looked amazingly similar to a pair of Stanley bent nose pliers. He packed it with

some of the round cotton bars (ones that look kinda like a tampon).

Mostly, a tooth aches due to infection, my wife hated the idea of a root canals, and for over two years I

kept her pain free injecting chlorine dioxide, (ClO2) whenever her tooth ached, she thought it a miracle!

I keep a syringe and ClO2 in survival kit, once activeated it has very limited shelf life, so you activate as

needed.

Was on a campout with boy scouts. I had a toothe ache and had scheduled a root canal for after return. so i

brought come powdered clove spice to make it through weekend. scoutmaster complained of a toothe ache

also. I gave some to him and we both got through the weekend

Clove essential oil was the only thing that really gave relief when I had an abcess while out of town. (WORST

DAY OF MY LIFE)

Keep in mind though, it’s killing the nerve, so if it is not an abcess–bad enough to have a root canal/pulled

tooth–then don’t do clove.

Hay Joe,

A few years ago my wife had a super toothace and dry socket. The dental surgon had ordered several pain


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Doc

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Doc

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relivers for her including vicodin 10 mg 2 every hour, it did not work. I called our family dentist and he

recomended clove oil. It can be purchased over the counter , not expensive and has a fairly long shelf life. She

applied a drop or two to the affected area and the pain went away. My Father who had some bad teeth had

lots of toothaches. He used a clove, placed on the affected tooth and bit down on it to relieve his tooth pain. It

gives you frsh breath also.

There are some valid points here, but a lot are off the point.

1) First, you have to have EUGENOL and zinc oxide in any toothache kit. It’s a must! Eugenol can be used by

itself as a drop in a tooth for temporary relief, but mixed with zinc oxide it can relieve the pain and fill up the

whole at the same time (and relieve the pain for months as long as the pulp is still alive). It is one of the things

that has been used in dentistry for a long time. Military has it in their field packs, MASH units, and on base,

color coded to tell them what has been done or not done. It can be mixed and placed in a hole or crack by any

layman. It is great for temporary relief (the eugenol sedates an irritated pulp or nerve inside the tooth), and in

a pinch can last for months if chewed on carefully. If there is one thing to have in a survival pack for teeth, it is

Zinc Oxide powder and Eugenol! Plus extremely long shelf life.

2) Salt, Hydrogen Peroxide, and Alcohol are all number two. Salt water and hydrogen peroxide and water, are

both great rinses. Alcohol for disinfecting of instruments.

3) Matches. To heat an end of an instrument, followed by alcohol. That can actually sterilize an instrument that

would be used to incise and drain an abscess or for any emergency surgery.

4) Baking soda. Not as effective as the other rinses, but a great toothpaste. It is probably one of the earliest

toothpastes. You can go one step further and dip you toothbrush in hydrogen peroxide, then dip it in baking

soda to brush you your teeth. Very healthy and hypo-allergenic. It is also a highly recommended way to brush

your teeth if you have peridontal(gum)disease.

5) A tea bag is good for stopping bleed after a tooth extraction. The tannic acid is what does it, so use regular

or black tea (herbal tea won’t work).

6) Colloidal silver is a holistic answer to antibiotics, but not nearly as effective. Great for people who have

allergies to antibiotics, but if there is an emergency situation, the pathogens may be more virulent and you

need what will fight them best. Also, in an emergency antibiotics are much more readily available than colloidal

silver.

7) If you don’t know what you are doing, don’t pull your own tooth or anyones tooth. The term “pull” is a

misnomer. The technique of extracting a tooth does not involve the idea of “pull” at all. If you break the tooth

off with an infected root still in the bone, you are s*** out of luck! The only way to get it is surgically. I don’t

think you want to be digging around without a road map of the different arteries, nerves and sinuses.

8) As far as an abscess. Listen to Carol and not Stu. The pain may come and go for awhile, but eventually it’s

going to blow. You may wake up with your face swollen and your eye closed. No matter how high your pain

threshold or how much you ignore it….it ain’t going away. Also, these long standing, ignored abscesses can be

life threating!

where do we get eugenol. I guess zinc oxide could be found at a vitamin store? I just read James Wesley

Rawles trilogy, Patriots,Surviors, and Founders, as well as One Second too late by Forstchen.

Preparedness is everything, and we can deal with a lot less than we have been, letting our wits solve

many things, but teeth? EEP! The comments have been really appreciated.

Eugenol is the ingredient in oil of cloves that makes it work. Eugenol is more concentrated

remedy. If you are putting the liquid in your mouth by drops or on a cotton, then be sparing with

the eugenol or more liberal with the oil of cloves. Eugenol (oil of cloves) can be dangerous in

high doses. You can buy either in almost any pharmacy, health food store, or on line.

As long as the tooth is not abscessed, either will calm the tooth down. It’s the time that is the

difference. Oil of clove on a cotton ball in a cavity could calm a tooth down from hours to days,

depending on the severity of the decay. Eugenol mixed with zinc oxide powder and placed in the

cavity could calm the tooth down from days to months….your choice. The eugenol slowly leaches

oout over a long period of time. Shelf life of eugenol and oil of cloves is around 2 years before


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Dr Dean

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Mark

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the effectiveness starts to diminish (but not end). I believe zinc oxide powder has an infinite shelf

life.

Check out the book “Where there is no dentist”, very useful in a SHTF situation.

I have been using pepper sprinkled in my hand, and placed on the sore gum with a finger. It works almost as

good as anbesol.

get the eugenol and zinc oxide at amazon

http://www.amazon.com/1710504FG-1710504FG–Eugenol-Henry-Schein/dp/B0056AYSZ2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&

qid=1360294218&sr=8-2&keywords=EUGENOL

When I was 15 I was out camping by myself. It was winter time and I was using a candle in a can for warmth in

my shelter. It caught fire and when I leaned over to blow it out, the hot wax splashed up over my face around

my right eye. I must have closed my eye because my eyeball was not burned, but my face was. I didn’t have any

medical supplies or even bandages with me. I soaked toilet paper in cold tea and applied it around my eye.

That was in the day when colored toilet paper was in vogue and I had green toilet paper. A couple of days later

when my father picked me up I had green toilet paper stuck to my face over my eye as the burn had oozed and

was crusted over. The doctor who treated me said the reason why I healed with no scar on my face was due to

the tea. It had helped heal the burn without a scar.

I have used warm water with epsom salts to treat minor infections for decades. I make the water as hot as the

infected part can stand and soak it until the water feels cool to some part of the body that has not been in the

water. That is usually a half an hour. Do that every four hours. It will heal most infections. The ratio is a

tablespoon of epsom salt to 8 ounces of water. If it does not, you have a serious infection that must be treated

by something much stronger. I have treated some very nasty looking infected cuts and scrapes that way since I

was a teenager more than sixty years. When I was quite young we had no antibiotics and relied on home

remedies for such things.

If you took a first aid course through the boy scouts or some other such organization in those days you learned

how to act as a first responder would these days. You took pulse, you splinted a break, you would load a victim

in a vehicle or made a travois and dragged them to a hospital. You learned out to safely move a downed power

line. Today it is get a clear airway, put pressure on bleeding, give artificial respiration (which is what they are

teaching now rather than mouth to mouth) and call 911. When I was boy scout age, you had to stabilize

someone who was injured and get him to hospital on your own and hope to meet a cop to get a police escort if

you were lucky.

Chuck,

I have watched my fater for over 50 years of my life do some of the very things you commented. have

you ever heard of using vicks vapor rub for a sore throat? My mother would take a small amount, about

the size of a dime, and eat it to sooth her sore throat. My father however would paint his throat with

mathalate to treat strep throat. I don’t ever remember him being treated with atibiotics for strep throat.


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Chuck

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Mark

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Katherine

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Nanook

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Mark

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Nanook

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D. Dan

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Ken

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I haven’t checked recently, but drug stores used to carry toothache kits. It had a little vial of oil of cloves, cotton

and soft wax. The instructions read to soak the cotton with the oil of cloves, wad the cotton into the cavity and

tamp the wax down on it until you could get to the dentist. Don’t know if drug stores still carry it, but it is worth

a look.

Yes they still carry oil of clove just ask the pharmacist.

Clove OIl can do wonders. I have medical grade essential oils. I used it to have a tooth pulled. works great. Not

sure this grade of oil can be purched at a store. Also Grapefruit OIl helps with infection.

I read almost all these blogs, and the comments. One thing comes to mind, and that you guys are asking

questions already addressed in three books. All are readily available. They are “Where There Is No Doctor”,

“Where There Is No Dentist” and most importantly “The Doom and Bloom Medical Handbook”. Voila, questions

answered by experts, and can be done for less than $30. AND, will quite possibly save your life, or someone

you love.

Thanks for that information, I will try and find those books and keep them handy.

P.S.: Don’t purchase any of the special books like “The Special Forces Medical Handbook” unless you have

training in the medical field. It is way over the head of the common layman. If I had only one book for medical

training, it would be the Doom & Bloom mentioned above.

Work in an ER, frequently recommend clove oil for toothache. I also recommend the books mentioned

above. Loved the article and comments. Animal or Fish antibiotics easier to get for laymen and are the

same as the ones we use, would be nice to have some stored.

Many of the animal antibiotics are not up to the same standard as for humans. Because of their

delicate physiology, the ones sold for fish are possibly of even higher grade than those for

humans.


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carol

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Nanook

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The Doom & Bloom IS an excellent text, as are the 2 Where There Is No… I am a medical professional, and have

found all 3 to be quite useful in addition to the skills I already possess. One thing I did not see mentioned here

is a Neti pot. If the pain is indeed from a sinus infection rather than a tooth, a Neti pot filled with a warm saline

solution will do wonders! I personally cleared a nasty, green mucous kind of sinus infection by using my Neti

pot once an hour until I had flushed all the mucous out, leaving the sinus cavity clean and able to attack its own

infection. This was AFTER I had finished the round of antibiotics the Dr. had given me to treat the ear infection I

had at the same time. (The Dr. had even told me the antibiotics would not likely heal the sinus infection “and

just come back if it doesn’t”! *smh)

food grade essential oils are worth looking into. I have chronic sinusitis and weary of sudafed, afrin, etc,

I began rubbing a little essential oil of Peppermint around nostrils. Just a tiny bit by rubbing my finger

over the bottle opening and it has worked! I really appreciate all the comments. Eugenol/zinc oxide, fish

and animal antibiotics, collidial silver and now echinacea! Even stanly bent nose pliers sounds like a

good idea unless we buy dental extractors. JWRawles character had fish line filament, tied it to a

decayed tooth, the other end to a bent sapling and let er fly. Hummm. Thanks all.

dental tools are available on ebay. so are most of the special oils & coloidal silver. for lack of a

better place to add this, I will add it here. something I have used for infections from cuts and

scrapes is “ichthammol drawing salve” from veternary supply houses, do a search to find it. used

to buy in drug stores when I was a kid and early adult, it was known as “ichthammol ointment”. I

had a clogged pore sometime back & needed some but couldn’t find it. did a search on the inet

& the ointment was pretty expensive, then I did a search at vet supply houses & got a BIG jar for

a little more than a tube of the ointment. I’ve used this stuff on my kids, horses & cows & I

promise it works. after it draws out the infection, switch to triple antibiotic till it heals up…..also,

tea tree oil does help with a tooth ache, but be careful, it is supposed to be “for external use

only”. Sinus infections (green) can be treated successfully by snorting sea salt & baking soda in

distilled water up your nose several times a day, it works I promise. ear infections can be treated

with hydrogen peroxide, and you can also gargle with it. Also, sea salt in warm water gargle

makes an excellent treatment for sore throat if done several times a day.

a couple of things-don’t use the cider vinegat as it’s very high in acetic acid and will literally dissolve the enamel

from a tooth in a day or 2 with repeated applications.if you want to numb the pain the very best thing to use is

echinacea root.the lakota call it “tooth ache medicine”roughly translated,that’s their actual name for the

plant.echinacea grows wild almost everywhere in the u.s.,you can find it easiest in mid summer when it

blooms.look for a big purple flower about 12-18 in from the ground about 3-5 in across with a big orange ping

pong ball in the center.it’s one of the easiest wild and cultivated medicinal plants to identify.any prepper

should be growing it now or should have planted it a while ago.if you just planted it within the past few years

try to find some that’s growing wild as the root will be much thicker around as it takes years to thicken the

root.if you pick wild,take a piece of root about as round as your pinky finger and cut @ 1/4 in piece from it,put

it in your mouth near the affected tooth and let it soak and soften.you’ll feel relief in seconds with a bubbly

numbness.after you’ve let it soak near the tooth for 10 min or so start to chew it with whichever teeth you can

still chew with and your whole mouth will numb out completely almost as well as a shot of novocaine.the

effects will last at least an hour and a half or sometimes longer.save the piece thaat you chewed as you can

chew it 5-6 times and have it work just as well.i’ve been in all but 5 of the lower 48 states and i’ve seen it

growing wild in all of them.even though this will remove pain you need to get some attention from someone

who knows what they’re doing at some point.remember that tooth pain signifies something that is a danger to

your life eventually and it must be treated.


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Doc

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Doc

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GREAT INFO! I print these articles and put them in my Suvival and Austere Medicine binder. Thanks.

I buy oil of Clove at cvs its in a tooth first aid kit, keep it on hand, it tastes absolutely disgusting, BUT it relieves

the pain instantly, if only temporarily. I have used baby aspirin, and found it helped held on my tooth. they also

sell a temporary filling kit, I had lost a filling and couldnt get to the dentist, it held for 3 weeks.

M Lewis,

Don’t place aspirin in a hole in the tooth or touching the gums or mucosa anywhere in the mouth. It is

acetylsalicylic acid. The decay process is a result of acid, so adding more acid atmosphere to the tooth

structure will actually accelerate the decay process. Aspirin touching the intraoral tissues will initially

relieve the pain, but in most cases will cause a long standing burning of the tissue making the situation

worse. Never do that!

OK, thanks. You know I watched an episode of Breaking Amish, where the teens went into the

city, before deciding whether or not to be baptized. A young girl, I believe she was 19 had

dentures. She had said that most Amish have all of their teeth pulled by the time they are 20. I

cant remember who she said pulled them, but she had said they held/tied her down. Then made

her dentures….I just cannot imagine! Her mouth was full of sores from ill fitting teeth. The Dr. in

NY made her some for free. Not that that has anything to do with this article, but if the future

holds any sort of period without dentists…yikes!

Two things: 1. Pharmaceutical medicine has only been around since 1883 so they are the “alternative medicine”

while the natural remedies are the real medicine. Years ago a man came to see me with an abscessed tooth,

and told me the dentist wanted him to take antibiotics for ten days and deal with the pain however he could

until then. I gave him some myrrh resin to stick between his teeth, and the pain was gone in one minute. Three

days later Doc Bean was calling me wanting to know where to get some of that myrrh to use with his other

patients. Cherokee Medicine had saved the day again.

2. If sinus pressure is causing a tooth to ache then it will cause the teeth above and below each other to do so

as it is pinching the nerve that serves both teeth. Put some cayenne pepper sauce in an ounce of water, drink

it, and swallow it slowly. Your sinuses will drain, and the pressure will be relieved. And, avoid pharmaceutical

anti-biotics like the plague!

You peaked my interest initially talking about myrrh which is used in some forms in dentistry. In fact

tincture of myrrh is a great for wound healing. But when statements are said like:

“If sinus pressure is causing a tooth to ache then it will cause the teeth above and below each other to

do so as it is pinching the nerve that serves both teeth”.


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I can’t take anything else as fact. It is anatomically impossible! There are many nerves involved, but to

make it easier to understand I’ll just mention the main nerves and branches.

Both the upper teeth and lower teeth are supplied by the Trigeminal nerve, but by two different

branches.

The upper teeth are mainly innervated by the Maxillary Nerve, the second branch of the Trigeminal

Nerve.

The lower teeth are mainly innervated by the Mandibular Nerve, the third branch of the Trigeminal

Nerve. There are a number of branches of the Mandibular Nerve, but the Inferior Alveolar Nerve

supplies the greatest number of lower teeth.

The Maxillary and Mandibular Nerves branch off from the main trunk of the Trigeminal Nerve at the

Gasserion (or Semilunar) Ganglion. The location of the Gasserion Ganglion is in the dura matter. The

dura matter is part of the brain, the outer most part.

The sinuses are anterior to the brain (not in the brain). To “pinch” a nerve, it would have to be “pinched”

in the brain away from the sinuses….Impossible.

The association of teeth and sinuses have nothing to do with any pinched nerves. The association has

to do with infection, inflammation, and/or pressure.

after having a bad oral surgery and ending up with the “surgeon” leaving 2 entire roots from a

molar inside my maxilla i fully understand everything you speak of.my abcess became so large

that it passed through my lower sinus cavity and went all the way up to my optic nerve and was

pressuring that.when i got to a competent oral surgeon he told me that if i had waited 2-3 more

days i most likely would have died,and worse the bacteria was antibio resistant so it took

another 7 mos to fully kill of the infection even after removing what was left of the roots and

removing a large amount of dead,decaying bone in my maxilla.at no point did an abcess that big

or life threatening cause pain in the mandible or any of the teeth i had left down there.as a kid i

had a deviated septum and used to get 8-10 sinus infections a year into my early 20s.i never

experienced any tooth pain from any of those infections.you do the math-that’s a lot of sinusitis

experiences to ponder the effects.good advice and extensive knowledge on those nerves

involved as i learned about every one of them when discussing permanent damage from my

abcess with my good oral surgeon.thanks for being able to label the exact paths of those nerves

as i knew the advice to be wrong but couldn’t remember the names of the nerves although the

pathways are fairly obvious.

sorry but i don’t buy #2 but i would like to know if that’s standard myrrh as in the incense etc.it also has

many uses as an indegestion cure and many other if it’s the same substance.

WARNING. Hydrogen Peroxide has many uses BUT it IS negligent to suggest using it without warning about the

different strengths.

SEE Dr. Dr. David G. Williams’ article at http://educate-yourself.org/cancer

/benefitsofhydrogenperozide17jul03.shtml

Good call glen I should have mentioned this part but as the only time I have seen anything above the

standard brown bottle peroxide (3%?) has been when ordering it from a chemical supply store. I know

that in the past people had issues with children drinking the 30-50% solutions that they kept in the

refrigerator,which is why they moved to the standard 3%. solution in the familiar bottle we know today.

But still a good reference. Anything much higher than that is dangerous, I had a solution of 50% get on

my skin last year at my warehouse and boy did it sting!


12 of 15 9/2/2013 10:30 AM

mj

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A little wiskey acts as an antibiotic and numbs the area Just take a little sip and hold it in the affected area

Repeat as often as necessary. It’s a feel good remedy.

I agree. Personally, I recommend “Maker’s Mark”….LOL

Someone mentioned black tea for bleeding after an extraction. It can also help (temporarily) with the pain from

an existing abcess. The pain is primarily being caused by pressure from fluid build-up. The tannin has a

dessicating effect, and therefore, temporarily reduces the swelling from fluid, which in turn reduces pain. I use

it by packing a dry teabag against the affected area and letting it stay there for as long as I can put up with it.

This is not a cure and will not prevent the infection from spreading to the heart or brain (common

complications of dental abcess. Once the teabag is off, the area will continue to swell and the pain will return.

But it can help you continue to function until you can get hold of antibiotics. If you can get hold of antibiotics,

keep in mind that you’re dealing with an infection of the bone and adjust the dosage accordingly. Otherwise

you’ll just end up wasting the antibiotics.

Hi Joe– I have a tried and true remedy that works like a dream!!! I take about a half a teaspoon of “five finger

grass” herb and a pinch of sugar, put it in a coffee filter, tie the filter up with a string (after gathering the filter

closed) above the bunch, trim the filter to the string and trim the string to the knot- dip the lil pouch in some

warm water or whiskey and place in sore/pained area of tooth ache.

this lil pouch can stay in the mouth for at least 2 hours and will help reduce swelling of the gums, fight infection

and is safe to swallow the ‘juices’ the mouth will produce.

I’ve used this to help hubby and he swears by it so now i keep plenty of ‘five finger grass” on hand!

oh, what is five fingers grass michelle?

think u jinxed me! I read this article bout a wk ago & got a toothache a couple days l8r.So I decided 2 use clove

oil.WARNING: MAKE SURE ur not allergic 1st! burned off the skin n mouth & on my tongue so test a Lil bit 1st

BAKING SODA IS AWESOME!!!! other tham the fact that it burned my mouth from where I was allergic 2

clove oil… SO wouldve saved me some $ (already had some) & definately some pain 2. TYSM 4 all the great

idea- GOD BLESS!


13 of 15 9/2/2013 10:30 AM

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The last couple tooth aches I’ve had, I have been using ice water to chill the nerve. It literally made the pain go

away after the initial cold sensitivity. The relief tends to only last for a minute or so though. At night it was

enough to get a few minutes of sleep at a time. It was heaven to relieve the pain, even if just for a moment.

Eventually you start to take in too much water so begin to spit the water at some point.

I know this sounds crazy, but it works every time. try using diet 7up. hold it in your mouth over the tooth for

about a minute or two. the pain disappears immediately. if it comes back try two or three more times. I’ve

watched the look of disbelief on peoples faces when they try this. make sure its diet 7up or Diet Sprite, make

sure the diet.

I’ve worked with a dentist for 15 years. I really think some accurate info would have benefited the readers

more than home remedies with out it. First there seems to be no distinction between gum infections and tooth

infections. Gum infections can be treated yourself. A tooth infection, while you can get temporary relief

sometimes, cannot be healed with home remedies. Even antibiotic treatment is temporary. The best advice is

to stay AHEAD of the problems with regular appointments and not ‘waiting’ for treatment. The infection

involved with the teeth have been found involved in disease process throughout the body.

Another side of having wisdom teeth removed: http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/skip-that-surgery-

most-wisdom-tooth-extractions-unnecessary/

I’ve used the acupuncture points between the bases of forefinger and thumb as a temporay relief from bad

toothache. Just grip the point with forefinger and thumb of the other hand. After a while the pain goes

away.This treatment can be repeated several times so you then have the time to seek medical help.

clove oil. when i was having wisdom tooth problems with my first pregnancy my husband went to the

pharmacy and asked what was the best thing for tooth pain without taking medication. works wonders.

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