What food is better for toothache?

Toothache does not discriminate by age. Some children suffer from toothache due to cavities, and adults also suffer from toothache due to wisdom teeth. When you have a toothache, not only do you not want to do anything, you also don’t want to eat food that you normally find delicious. But from the perspective of recuperation, we can still rely on different foods to help relieve toothache. But there are so many foods, what is better to eat when we have a toothache?

1. Toothache due to deficiency of fire

Clinical manifestations: dull or slight toothache, obvious pain when biting, more severe pain in the afternoon, slightly red gums, floating tooth roots, dry throat, red tongue, and thin and rapid pulse.

Diet therapy

1. Raw Rehmannia Glutinosa and Pork Kidney Soup: 30 grams of raw rehmannia, 15 grams of bone-healing glutinosa, 1 pig kidney, add appropriate amount of salt to boil the soup, eat the pig kidney and drink the soup, twice a day.

2. Raw Rehmannia glutinosa and duck egg soup: 30 grams of raw rehmannia, 20 grams of ginseng, two duck eggs, and 20 grams of rock sugar. Soak Rehmannia glutinosa and Radix Rehmanniae in two bowls of water for 30 minutes. Wash the duck eggs and cook them together with Rehmannia glutinosa and Radix Rehmanniae. Peel the eggs after they are cooked and put them into the Rehmannia glutinosa soup and cook for a while. Add rock sugar for seasoning and eat the eggs and drink the soup.

3. Two Winter Porridge: 50 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus, 50 grams of Asparagus cochinchinensis, and 100 grams of rice. Wash and chop Ophiopogon japonicus and Asparagus cochinchinensis, add appropriate amount of rice and water to cook porridge, once a day. Chop it into small pieces, add appropriate amount of water to rice and cook into porridge, once a day.

2. Stomach Fire Toothache Type

Clinical manifestations: The teeth are constantly eroded and cavities appear. Food gets stuck in the cavities during eating. Toothache may occur if the teeth are stimulated by hot, cold, sour or sweet food.

Diet therapy

1. Banana salt: 3 bananas (peeled), spread a little salt on them and eat. Twice a day.

2. Duck egg and oyster porridge: 2 salted duck eggs, 50 grams of dried oysters, and 60 grams of polished rice. Cook salted duck eggs and glutinous rice into porridge. When cooked, remove the salted duck eggs, peel them, chop them and put them into the porridge together with dried oysters. Cook for a while, season and eat.

3. Clinical manifestations of wind-heat toothache: toothache, more severe pain when chewing or tapping, red and swollen gums or pus discharge; thirst, red tongue, yellow tongue coating, and floating and rapid pulse.

Diet therapy

1. Banana peel stewed with rock sugar: 2 banana peels, 30 grams of rock sugar, stewed in water, 3 times a day.

2. Luffa and ginger soup: 300 grams of fresh luffa, 60 grams of fresh ginger. Wash the fresh luffa and cut into sections. Wash the fresh ginger and slice it. Decoction of the above two ingredients 1

Drink the soup twice a day.

How to prevent toothache

1. Reduce or eliminate pathogenic irritants

Reducing or eliminating plaque, changing the oral environment and creating clean conditions are important links in preventing caries. The most practical and effective way is to brush your teeth and rinse your mouth. Therefore, you should develop a good habit of brushing your teeth in the morning and evening and rinsing your mouth after meals.

2. Reduce or control sugar in your diet

Develop the habit of not eating sweets before going to bed since childhood. Eat more vegetables, fruits and foods rich in calcium, phosphorus, vitamins, etc. Eat whole grains as much as possible.

3. Eat more rough, hard and fiber-containing foods

It has a friction and cleansing effect on the tooth surface and reduces the accumulation of food debris. Hard food needs to be chewed thoroughly, which can not only strengthen the periodontal tissue, but also rub the biting surface of the teeth, which may make the pits and fissures shallower and help reduce pit and fissure caries.