Toothache is not a disease, but a pain that kills! Especially the wind and fire toothache, the pain is a whole night sleepless. Eating painkillers can only be a short time to relieve, the medicine is over, and then start to hurt, and often eat drugs on our body also has adverse side effects. The following is to introduce you to a common rural field of a weed, can also be planted in the home, the treatment of wind and fire toothache is very useful, that is, mint.

Toothache is mostly caused by gingivitis and periodontitis, dental caries (tooth decay) or fractured teeth and lead to pulp (tooth nerve) infection. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that toothache is mainly due to stomach fire blazing, kidney deficiency and fire, the main symptoms of red and swollen gums, usually accompanied by yellow tongue, bitter mouth, fever, constipation or stool and other systemic symptoms.

Peppermint leaves contain peppermint oil (the main components of menthol, menthone), mint cream, camphor terpenes, lemon terpenes, protein, fat, carbohydrates, minerals, vitamins. Peppermint to more leaves, green color, strong smell is preferred. At the same time, mint is also rich in dietary fiber, ash, vitamin A, carotene, retinol, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin C, vitamin E, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, magnesium, iron, zinc, selenium, copper, manganese, iodine and many other trace elements needed by the human body.

Mint medicinal value

Taste: pungent, cool.

Transmission: into the lung, liver meridian.

Functions and Indications: Expelling wind, dispersing heat, expelling filth, and detoxifying. It is used for treating external wind-heat, headache, redness of the eyes, sore throat, stagnant food and gas, mouth sores, toothache, scabies, and addictive rash.

Use and dosage: internal: decoction (should not be decocted for a long time), 0.8 ~ 2 money; or into pills, bulk. External use: Pound the juice or decoct the juice to apply.

Contraindications: Yin deficiency and blood dryness, liver yang partial hyperactivity, surface deficiency sweating is not recommended.

Discussions of various schools:

Compendium: "Mentha piperita, pungent can be dispersed, cool can be cleansing, specializing in eliminating wind and dissipating heat. Therefore, headache, head wind, eye, throat, mouth and mouth diseases, children's fever, and scrofula, sores and scabies for the important medicine."

"Drugs": "Mentha piperita, taste Xin can be dispersed, the nature of the cool and clear, through the six yang will be the first, to get rid of all the heat of the wind. Take its nature sharp and light and clear, good head and face, with the treatment of loss of voice, treatment of mouth and throat. Together with Chuanxiong, it reaches the top of the head to direct congested heat. Taking its flavorful and beneficial nature, it is good at walking on the surface of the muscles, and is used to eliminate swelling, dissipate heat in the muscles, remove back pain, and draw the surface medicine into the camp and the guards in order to relieve stagnant qi."

The Materia Medica Seeking Truth: "Mentha piperita, odor pungent and cool, the work of specializing in the liver and lungs. Therefore, the book contains Xin can disperse, and in the headache, head wind, fever and cold is appropriate, Xin can pass gas, and in the heart and abdomen, phlegm is treated: cool can clear heat, and in the throat, mouth and mouth, eyes, ears, addictive rashes, sores, scabies, fever, bone vapor, epistaxis is wonderful. This is why the ancient formula is used as a tool to open up the depression and disperse the gas; pediatric eclampsia, this is used as a tool to declare the wind to the ability to guide; intestinal wind and blood dysentery, this is used as a method to clear the gas, but also do not dare to use it more than two or three times so far as the fear of leakage of the true element ear." The Compendium: "Beneficial to all diseases of the throat, mouth and teeth. Treatment of scrofula, sores and scabies, and wind-addicted rashes."

Medicine Compendium: "Healing toothache, has been hot coughing, relief of summer heat, quench thirst, stopping bloody diarrhea, pass urine."

When you have a toothache, you can decoct 10 grams of asparagus and 6 grams of peppermint, and drink it frequently as tea. If it is inconvenient to buy the medicine to the pharmacy, available mint leaves and green tea in the ratio of 1:1 tea to drink, but also can reduce swelling and pain.