What Are The Home Remedies For Wisdom Tooth Pain?

 

Whether your wisdom tooth makes you wise or not is a separate matter for debate but your wisdom tooth gives you intense pain for sure! Your mouth can have four wisdom teeth, medically called molars, one at each corner. Your wisdom tooth or teeth may grow when you are anywhere between 16 and 25, and sometimes even later in life, in your 30s too. Here are few easy, home remedies to get instant relief from your aching wisdom tooth.

Home Remedies For Wisdom Tooth Pain:

1. Lavender Oil

The nerve soothing lavender oil has anti-inflammatory and antiseptic properties that may get you rid of tooth pain. In fact, some aroma therapists use this oil to ease anxiety related to dental procedures.

Directions:

- Directly apply some oil on your painful tooth and rub with fingertips.
- Or soak a cotton pad with this oil and place it on the aching tooth.

 2. Onions

Onions have phytochemicals such as disulfides, trisulfides, cepaene, and vinyl dithiins, that have anticancer and antimicrobial properties and thus can kill the germs causing infection in your mouth and give you relief from pain.

Directions:

- Take a slice of raw onion and chew it, spreading its juice to where it aches.
- You may also experiment with onion juice. Crush and extract the juice of onion and apply it to your wisdom tooth.

3. Garlic

Garlic has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties that can go a long way in relieving pain.Antioxidants present in garlic also helps reduce swelling and in turn giving relief from pain.

Directions:

- Take a garlic clove and crush it a little so that it may release its juice. Hold this crushed garlic clove against your aching wisdom tooth.
- Crush 1-2 garlic cloves to get a paste. Add some salt, and apply on your aching area in the mouth.

4. Wheat grass Juice

Juice made from this wheat grass is a rich source of chlorophyll, antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. Chlorophyll is an excellent anti-bacterial which inhibits the growth of bacteria.

Directions:

- Fill your mouth with wheat grass juice and hold it for about 5 minutes. Now throw this away. This is said to pull out all toxins, bacteria from your mouth.

 5. Asafetida

With its nutrient rich composition due to various minerals and vitamins, asafetida has long been used byAyurveda to cure a variety of diseases and medical conditions including toothaches.

Directions:

- Mix asafetida and lemon juice and crush the asafetida in it
- Now slightly heat this mixture. It just needs to be lukewarm.
- Take a cotton ball and soak it to place this compress against your aching wisdom tooth.