A toothache can happen unexpectedly, causing distress and serious pain. To make matters worse, it’s not always possible to reach a dentist in order to deal with your toothache conventionally. Between dealing with long waits to get an appointment, being out of town and unable to reach your normal dentist, or just being unable to pay for a normal dental visit, we all sometimes have to find another way to treat a toothache.
Ideally, an emergency treatment for toothache should be natural and safe to use. One way of treating your toothache without resorting to a dentist is homeopathy. Remember, however, that toothaches indicate a problem, so be sure to go to a dentist as soon as possible. Letting a toothache persist could mean more pain later, more expensive dental procedures, and abscessing.
Homeopathic toothache remedies are engineered to address specific symptoms. Therefore, there’s no one remedy that you should take for a toothache or other dental problems. Here are the best options for a number of different problems:
– When the toothache is worse from moving your head or jaw, chewing, and touch, and is accompanied by a throbbing sort of pain, three pellets of 15C Belladonna every half hour should be taken, until the symptoms are reduced or subside. Belladonna can also be used to treat sudden onset gum and tooth abscesses when they’re accompanied by redness, swelling, and throbbing that gets worse when touched.
– Toothaches that get worse when you introduce cold substances into your mouth, and which are improved by heat should be treated with five pellets of 9C Magnesia phosphorica until symptoms subside.
– Three pellets of Coffea cruda at a 9C potency should be taken every half hour if you have the opposite kind of toothache – one relieved by cold and aggravated by heat.
– If you’re suffering severe, unbearable pain, anxiety and sudden restlessness, and moving makes your toothache worse, try Aconitum Napellus. This relieves the kind of sharp, tearing pain caused by serious cases of pulpitis and nerve inflammation. Use 7C potency, and take five pellets every fifteen to twenty minutes.
– If your tooth aches severely, the pain is aggravated by cold and pressure, but better when you eat, and the other teeth are sensitive, 30C potency Plantago may be the answer. This remedy is particularly recommended if your mouth feels full of saliva.
In addition to toothaches, there are some other oral aches and pains that homeopathic remedies can relieve, such as gum pain. Arnica can be used to treat inflammation from dental procedures, if you’ve had your toothache treated conventionally. Hypericum is suitable to treat gum pain, soreness from trauma, and some toothaches. Myristica is indicated for swollen abscesses of the gums which are accompanied by numbness – common for problems with the wisdom teeth.
Homeopathic toothache remedies can be the difference between an impossible day and one you can deal with. It’s important to see a dentist as soon as you can. However, sometimes this can be a long time from when we first develop our toothache. Natural treatments have the ability to at least relieve our pain until then.
