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.
Cool from the outside, keep the head raised — at night too, with a second pillow. Soft, lukewarm food, avoid the affected side. Nothing hot, nothing ice-cold.
Lying down raises pressure in the inflamed area, which is why it often hurts more at night. Cold from outside dampens; warmth increases blood flow and thus pressure.
It bridges hours, it treats nothing. A tooth that hurts does not get better on its own.
Never place aspirin or clove oil directly on the gum — it burns. With facial swelling, fever or trouble opening the mouth, see the dentist 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.