4. Oil Pulling for Abscessed Tooth
Oil pulling has been one of the oldest methods to keep teeth healthy as it draws out all the toxins out there in your teeth. Ayurveda, the ancient Indian medicine, uses oil pulling as one of the remedies for all teeth problems, from healing cavities to abscessed tooth. It literally pulls out bacteria of your teeth! If you can, use coconut oil for pulling toxins and bacteria out of your abscessed tooth due to its fine anti-bacterial properties.
How to do Oil Pulling?
Get this:
- Coconut oil- 1 tbsp
- Clove oil (optional)- 1-2 drops
- Warm water
Do this:
- If you are pulling oil for abscessed tooth, its good if you mix some anti-bacterial and analgesic oil like clove oil to your coconut oil.
- Now place this oil in your mouth.
- Start swishing the oil inside your mouth.
- Pull the oil in your mouth back and forth and sideways. Focus more on your abscessed tooth. However be gentle while swishing the oil all around your mouth.
- Swish the oil for about 20 minutes.
- Now spit it out.
- Rinse your mouth with warm water.
- Do this daily, preferably in the morning.
5. Salt Water Rinse for Abscessed Tooth
When you go to the doctor for an abscessed tooth or gums, you may be asked to rinse your mouth with warm salt water a few times a day for several days. This is thus one of the home remedies for abscessed tooth that is endorsed by dentists themselves. Saline water has a three way effect on your painful tooth- it helps reduce infection, pain as well as inflammation.
Get this:
- Salt- 1/8 to 1/2 tsp
- Warm water- 1 glass
Do this:
- Add the salt to your warm water.
- Mix well and rinse your mouth with this water.
- For this swish this warm saline water all around inside your mouth.
- Repeat this 3-4 times a day.
6. Oil of Oregano for Abscessed Tooth
Oregano oil or the oil of oregano has natural antimicrobial and antispasmodic properties. When you use oregano oil for abscessed tooth, it will numb the area for sometime. This makes you senseless about the pain you had been experiencing in your mouth. Due to its antimicrobial properties, oil of oregano also clears up the infection. Why this oil is so good for abscessed tooth is also because it helps abscess drainage while killing the bacteria in the pus there.
Get this:
- Oil of oregano- 2-3 drops
- Cotton swab
Do this:
- Pour the drops of oregano oil on to the cotton swab.
- Apply this swab to your abscessed tooth and hold it there for few minutes.
- Repeat this 2-3 times a day.
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