What is the best medicine for toothache?

1. What medicine is good for toothache?

Toothache is usually related to tooth decay or other dental diseases. It is recommended to go to a professional dental clinic for a confirmed diagnosis and symptomatic treatment. If there is caries, the tooth should be filled in time. For general toothaches, you can take amoxicillin, metronidazole, ibuprofen and vitamin B complex orally. Avoid spicy and fried foods, rinse your mouth with salt water, and keep your mouth clean at all times.

2. Treatment of toothache

1. Basic treatment

Treatment method: dispel wind and purge fire, dredge meridians and relieve pain. The main points are the Yangming meridians of hands and feet.

Main acupoints: Hegu, Cheek Cartilage, Xiaguan.

Combined acupoints: For toothache caused by wind-fire, add Waiguan and Fengchi; for toothache caused by stomach-fire, add Neiting and Erjian; for toothache caused by yin deficiency, add Taixi and Xingjian.

Operation: Use drainage method for main acupoints, and cross-puncture left and right acupoints along the meridians. Continue needling Hegu for 1-3 minutes. The combined acupoint Taixi is used with the tonifying method, the combined acupoint Xingjian is used with the draining method, and the other acupoints are all used with the draining method.

Meaning of the prescription: Hegu is a remote acupoint that can dredge the Yangming meridian and dispel wind. It can dredge the meridians and relieve pain, and is an important acupoint for treating toothache. Cheek Cartilage and Xiaguan are proximal acupoints selected to dredge the Qi and blood of the Foot Yangming Meridian.

2. Other treatments

Ear acupuncture: select maxillary, mandibular, Shenmen, upper screen tip, and toothache points. Choose 2-3 acupoints each time, prick them with filiform needles, give strong stimulation, and leave the needles in for 20-30 minutes.

3. Emergency methods for toothache

1. Grind 10 grams of white pepper into powder, add alcohol to make it into a paste, and put it into the tooth cavity 4 times.

2. Acupuncture the Laogong point on the same side with moderate stimulation, insert the needle 1 to 2 times, twist it up and down without leaving the needle in place.

3. Put 12 black plums in your mouth separately, or you can also put them in your mouth with sugar balls.

4. Add an appropriate amount of beehive to pure alcohol and light it on fire. When the beehive is burned into black ash, dip your finger in the ash and apply it to the affected tooth. It usually takes 4 to 5 minutes to relieve the pain.

5. Take a little lard and new cotton, wrap the lard with cotton, heat it, and bite it on the painful tooth for a while, changing the brush one by one, and repeat several times.

6. Crush 1 to 2 pills of Liushen Pills and place them on the gums of the affected teeth for 5 to 10 minutes, once a day, usually not more than 3 times.

7. Add a little salt to 15 grams of almonds (peeled and pointed), boil them into a decoction and gargle with it 3 to 4 times a day (be careful not to swallow them).

8. Massage the Hegu point with ice for 5 minutes.

9. Acupuncture the Taichong point on the affected side, twist the needle into place, and after getting qi, if the toothache is caused by wind or fire, use the purgation method. If the toothache is caused by deficiency fire, use purgation first and then tonification. After the toothache is relieved, needle the Xiaguan acupoint again, and leave the needle in for 30 minutes after qi is obtained.

10. Take an egg, pour the egg white into a bowl, add 100 ml of white wine, stir into a paste, and take it before going to bed.

11. Grind 60 grams each of gallnut and Sichuan pepper and 6 grams of realgar into fine powder. Wrap them in gauze into soybean-sized pieces. Soak them in wine and bottle them for later use. When you feel pain, take one pill, place it on the painful tooth and bite it for 10 minutes.

12. Acupuncture the main ear point Sanjiao, assisted by Shenmen, both on the affected side, use a 5-min needle to quickly insert the reaction point, gently twist for the elderly and weak, and strongly stimulate for the young and strong, so that the needle sensation reaches the gums of the affected area, and leave the needle in for 10 to 20 minutes; once a day, 4 times a course of treatment.