Toothache Chinese Medicine Diagnosis and Treatment

Toothache is generally categorized into two types of Chinese medicine: solid fire and deficient fire; solid fire is treated by clearing heat and fire (removing heat and fire from the body), and deficient fire is treated by nourishing yin and clearing heat (nourishing yin essence and removing heat). In traditional Chinese medicine, the teeth are the rest of the bones, and the kidneys are responsible for bone marrow (meaning that the kidneys control the production of bone marrow and affect the growth and development of bones), which belongs to the foot-shaoyin kidney meridian; the veins of the hand-yangming colon meridian go to the lower teeth; and the veins of the foot-yangming stomach meridian go to the upper teeth. Therefore, this disease is mainly related to the kidney, large intestine and stomach. Solid fire toothache is mostly stomach fire toothache. Gastric fire, spicy food, or wind-heat poisonous evils cause gastric fire to vaporize the toothbed through the meridian. The pain is severe, and even accompanied by red, swollen and bleeding gums, bad breath and constipation, can be taken to clear the stomach, such as clearing heat and fire, cool blood to stop the pain. The toothache of deficiency fire will have hidden pain in the teeth, shaking and falling off, mostly due to deficiency of liver and kidney (liver and kidney function is weak), the teeth can’t be nourished caused by, you can take Jade Lady Decoction and so on to nourish yin and clear the fire. Finally, if you feel unwell, we recommend that you go to a regular hospital, complete the examination, make a clear diagnosis, and follow the doctor’s instructions to identify and use the medication.