Oh! – It always comes at the wrong time and is worse at night when you are desperately trying to sleep.
Yes, I’m talking about the dreaded toothache. It can be the most excruciating pain and it can last so long that it can really bring you down and make you feel positively ill.
So you’ll want to know how to stop a toothache quickly …
Well my first reaction when toothache hits, is to try the following simple tricks that can often stop a toothache without even opening your mouth. They are very useful when you are in company or when there are no other forms of pain relief available.
These two tips are based on the alternative therapy known as ‘acupressure’, which in turn draws loosely on the art of acupuncture and uses finger pressure rather than needles to stimulate nerve endings at certain pressure points. selected.
o There is a pressure point on the webbed part between the thumb and forefinger, which is easily accessible and can be worked discreetly while in company or sitting in a public place such as a restaurant or on public transport.
To relieve your toothache, you can work on the hand that corresponds to the side where you feel the pain. For example, if your toothache is on the left side of your mouth, then it would work on your left hand.
So in our example, hold the palm of the left hand down, slightly extend the thumb and forefinger, and with the other hand, the thumb up, start adding pressure with the ‘right’ thumb at the apex of the ‘V’ between the fingers. thumb and forefinger of the “left” hand. (that is, the webbed area between the thumb and forefinger).
If you create small circles with your right thumb and gradually add pressure, you will feel a more sensitive area and that is the area where you can gradually add more pressure, massaging in small circles, holding the pressure for short bursts of 10 seconds and releasing the pressure for a couple of seconds between each 10 second spell. – Continue this pressure treatment for at least five minutes or until the toothache is relieved.
This particular treatment can be even more effective if you can use an ice cube to massage the area in the ‘V’ of the thumb and forefinger.
o The second tip on how to stop a toothache without even opening your mouth is again based on what is called ‘Acupressure’.
This time around, the treatment is more obvious and not something you would like to do in public, but it can be extremely effective in relieving toothache.
To relieve acute toothache, work on the pressure point in the area just below the nose, approximately midway between the nose and upper lip, in the groove known as the “nasolabial fold.”
I think it is best to use the tip of the index finger or the index knuckle to press quite hard on the point just below the nose. This may be a bit painful at first, but you will soon get used to this pressure, and as this treatment continues, the toothache will go away.
The best way to get quick pain relief is to press the tip of your index finger or knuckle on the center point of the “nasolabial fold” with as much pressure as you can. – Hold this pressure for 10 seconds and release it for 2 or 3 seconds. – Continue in 10-second bursts for 5 minutes or until pain goes away.
o There is another effective method to relieve toothache without opening your mouth and that is to apply a cold compress or an ice pack to the side of your face where you feel the pain. Just apply the ice pack and hold it down until the pain goes away.
These are just a couple of little tips that I have used in an emergency situation, where there is no other home treatment available and I feel like I desperately need to get rid of the toothache as quickly as possible.
There are many extremely effective home remedies for toothache and it is worth arming yourself with some of them, so be prepared to ease the pain in case you experience a toothache attack again.
