Home remedies · Mouth, teeth, eyes & feet
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
Hold a cooled cloth against the cheek from outside for 15 minutes, with breaks; sleep with the head raised.
Cold dampens pain and swelling, and the raised position lowers the throbbing pressure.
Toothache does not heal by itself — the cause sits in the tooth and needs treatment.
No warmth on a swollen cheek, do not place aspirin on the gum — it burns. With swelling reaching the eye or neck, fever or trouble swallowing go to hospital at once.
To the doctor or dentist: facial swelling with fever, toothache with trouble opening the mouth, a knocked-out tooth — that is an emergency with a short window. For the eye: sudden loss of vision, severe pain, flashes of light. Sore places in the mouth lasting beyond three weeks.