Home Remedies for Toothache Relief | Dr. Josh Axe

Hey guys, Dr. Axe here. Today I'm going to talk to you about home remedies for toothaches. And if you've ever had a toothache, or you have a young child, or a teething baby that has a toothache, you know that those can be painful, those can be nagging, and they can really just make you miserable. And so I want to go over my top three natural remedies for curing toothaches fast. And the first thing you need to use are essential oils. And the best essential oil, according to the medical literature, is clove oil. Clove actually ranks as the highest antioxidant herb in the entire world today. And so you can get a little bottle of essential oils here of clove oil, and you just take just one single drop, and you rub it right on the area. Now for teething babies, a lot of times what you'll do is you'll take clove oil, you'll mix it with an equal amount of coconut oil, and then you'll use that and rub it just right on the area. So again, you can see here, just take a bottle of essential oil, a drop or two coconut oil, you rub it right on the area. But there are several medical studies showing that cloves or clove oil is so effective at actually helping heal and helping relieve the pain associated with toothaches. And if you don't have clove essential oil at home, you can actually go to the store and actually buy just clove powder, mix that with coconut oil and rub that on the area as well. But I will tell you the oil of clove is the most effective, even more effective than actually the clove powder that you'd cook with or bake with at home. But again, if you don't have it, don't have access, then doing some of the clove powder with coconut oil does work. And the next thing you want to be doing is sea salt. In fact, doing sea salt in the area, gargling and swishing around the area with sea salt, sea salt actually has natural antibacterial activities. It can actually have an analgesic effect on the area. So again, swishing around some sea salt in the area is also effective home remedy for fighting and healing toothaches. And last but not least, if you really want to soothe or numb the area, peppermint oil. Peppermint oil contains menthol, which actually can help numb that area as well. And so what I would recommend ideally, if you want to help heal or cure a toothache, the first thing you would do is you'd swish around in your mouth for two minutes. You'll swish around sea salt. The next thing you do right afterwards is you would create a mixture of clove oil and peppermint oil and rub it directly on the area. And if you do those things together, you're going to find it's really going to help you overcome that toothache very quickly. And let me say, if it really gets out of hand, obviously you do want to go and see your local dentist or schedule appointment to see a dentist. Some other things you may consider doing is really backing off your sugar intake. Consuming sugar can feed yeast and bacteria that can be causing a toothache as well or inflammation in the area. So really reducing and eliminating excess sugar intake can definitely help, another thing you may consider doing. But remember, hey, you want to kick a toothache fast, remember these ingredients. Clove oil, peppermint oil, and sea salt are the most effective home remedies when overcoming toothaches. And hey, if you want to learn more about the most effective natural remedies you can be using, check out my website, DrAxe.com. I have a tab on my page called Natural Remedies where I have well over 100 natural remedies for almost every health condition you can imagine. Check it out there on DrAxe.com. Thanks for watching, guys.