Aconite [Acon]
Patient almost frantic with pain; throbbing pains from taking cold with determination of blood to head; stitching jerks or shocks; heat in face, red cheeks, great restlessness; Coffea, being insufficient; especially suitable for children.
Ammonium-carb [Am-c]
Violent toothache on going to bed at night, (<) from warm liquids or cool air; teeth painful on biting them together; pressing teeth together sends shocks through head, ear, nose and eyes; cracking of the articulations of the jaws on chewing.
Antimonium-crud [Ant-c]
Pains in hollow tooth of a boring, digging, tearing jerking character, penetrating sometimes into the head, in bed, after eating from cold water;(>) when walking in open air; gums bleed readily and recede from teeth; touching the tooth with the tongue causes pain as if the nerve torn; gnawing pain in carious teeth.
Antimonium-tart [Ant-t]
RHEUMATIC TOOTHACHE OF INTERMITTENT TYPE; tearing in roots of teeth after eating (left side) posteriorly; teeth covered with mucus; gums bleed as if scorbutic.
Apis-mell [Apis]
Jumping pain in left upper molars;sudden involuntary biting teeth together; swelling and redness of gums and cheeks, with sore pain and stinging in teeth; violent pains in gums which belled easily.
Apium-grav [Ap-g]
Toothache of left molars, (>) by holding cold water in mouth; dull sore pain in left upper and lower teeth.
Aranea-diad [Aran]
TOOTHACHE EVERY DAY AT SAME HOUR,(>) by smoking tobacco; (<) by humidity at night and after lying down; pinching pressing pain in upper incisors, regularly from 9 A.M. to 7 P. M., leaving a sensitiveness and cold feeling on drawing in air; sensation as if gums and checks were swollen; constant chilliness, rainy days.
Argentum-nit [Arg-n]
Teeth pain, especially when chewing, eating sour things, or putting anything cold in mouth; rumbling digging pain as when tooth becomes carious; gum tender and bleed easily; one-sided, drawing, dull pain, spreading from right temple to upper jaw and through the dental arches.
Arnica [Arn]
After extraction of a tooth it will stop the bleeding and hasten healing of gums;ulcers, pain and swelling after operations on teeth;throbbing toothache, with sensation as if tooth were being forced out from its socket by the blood;pain as if sprained in the teeth; drawing and pulling in teeth while eating; hard swelling of cheeks;beating and tingling in gums.
Arsenicum [Ars]
Teeth lose or elongated, with constant jerking or burning and tearing in gums, worse when touched, lying on affected side, at rest, from cold;better by heat of stove, by hot applications, by sitting up in bed; great prostration from severity of pains; haemorrhage of dark blood after extracting tooth.
Arum-triph [Arum-t]
Towards evening toothache in decayed teeth of left lower jaw, painful to touch; fugitive pains extending to eye, temple and throat, and pain in larynx, voice uncertain.
Asafoetida [Asaf]
Caries of teeth after of mercury, with drawing pains in jaws and copious salvation; bluntness of teeth; severe drawing in lower incisors.
Aurum-met [Aur]
Toothache from drawing air into mouth; when chewing, suddenly painful dulness in one of the upper molar teeth; TOOTHACHE AT NIGHT; violent tearing in carious teeth;gums swollen, dark-red, sore when touched and eating, bleed easily bad odor from mouth and heat in head; secondary syphilis and mercurialization loosen all teeth.
Baryta-carb [Bar-c]
Toothache in decayed teeth BEFORE MENSES, or from a cold; drawing jerking, throbbing toothache, right teeth feel tense; toothache in SINGLE JERKS in decayed teeth, pain going to temple and ear; burning stitches in a hollow tooth when touched by warm food, left side; gums bleed, are swollen, pale-red, with a dark-red border; toothache worse when thinking of it, disappears when mind is diverted;fistula dentalis; abscesses at the roots.
Belladonna [Bell]
Toothache some minutes after eating, not during, increases gradually to a high degree, and as gradually diminishes; teeth feel on edge; great restlessness from pain with disposition to cry; teeth and gums painfully sensitive; biting causes a feeling as if there were an ulcer at root of tooth, with stinging, cutting, jerking, tearing pain; drawing pain worse after going to bed and during night; burning in carious teeth, as from congestion of blood, with bleeding or sucking at the teeth; painful swelling of gums, with heart, itching vesicles and burning, swelling of cheeks, ptyalism, or dryness of throat and mouth, with great thirst;renewal of pains by mental labor and after a meal, worse in open air and by contact of hot food or liquids; hot and red face; beating in head and cheeks, burning ands redness of eyes; pressing hard upon cheeks sometimes gives relief; worse from 5 to 10 P.M., ceasing before midnight.
Bismuth [Bism]
Pressure in region of malar bones,(>) running about and holding cold water in mouth., but (<) when water becomes warm; ill-humor, morose and discontented, but solitude is unbearable.
Bryonia [Bry]
Jerking toothache when smoking, tearing-sticking pains while eating extending to the muscles of worse by warmth; teeth seem too long; toothache relieved by cold water, worse by taking anything warm in mouth; pain more frequent in sound than in carious teeth, shoots from one tooth to another, also in head and cheeks;teeth and gums are sore; toothache momentarily (>) by lying on painful side.
Calcarea-carb [Calc]
Toothache in pregnant females or in carious teeth of scrofulous or rachitic children; pains in hollow teeth, especially around loose stumps; pressing drawing jerking looseness; drawing, pricking, rooting gnawing throbbing pains with swollen gums which are sore, bleed easily throb and pain; worse from warm or cold drinks, or excited by draught and cold;fistula dentalis on lower jaw; offensive smell from teeth.
Camphora [Camph]
Cutting with painful looseness of teeth, which seem too long; slimy and tenacious saliva in mouth; pains relieved by DRINKING COLD WATER, but not by holding cold water in the mouth, which aggravates.
Carbo-an [Carb-an]
Rending tearing pains caused by SALT FOOD, wITH BLEEDING GUMS AND SORENESS OF TEETH, which become loose and very sensitive to the least cold; sensitive on chewing;toothache on going to bed, during day and during sleep, (<) on waking from sleep; gums red, swollen painful bleeding; taste of manure in mouth.
Carbo-veg [Carb-v]
TEETH DECAY RAPIDLY; the whole row of teeth too long and very tender, he cannot bite;tearing in teeth from hot, cold, or salt food, worse when touched by the tongue; receding and bleeding gums, with ulcers, much aching or tearing in back part of the palate or in fauces; gumboils.
Causticum [Caust]
Painful looseness and elongation of teeth; feeling as if the teeth were crowded out of their sockets by the swollen gums;sticking and tearing toothache; pain in sound teeth on drawing in cold air, affecting often the whole left side of face, especially at night when the patient lies on it, and equally sensitive to heat and cold;tedious suppuration of gums; fistula dentalis; (<) evening and by eating.
Cepa [All-c]
Toothache with coryza, getting better when the catarrh is worse, and worse when catarrh ceases; commence on left side and goes to right side, worse in warm room; throbbing, drawing pressing pains with swelling in cheek, worse when chewing better from cold water; teeth become yellow; for people with offensive breath, fond of the open air, and like to wash themselves frequently.
Chamomilla [Cham]
Irritable and whiling mood during the pain, stitching digging, gnawing toothache, as from taking cold, during and after eating, if anything warm or cold is taken into the mouth, especially coffee, in the open air and in the room, or after GETTING WARM IN BED, with hot swelling of cheeks, and red, shining swelling of gums;swelling of submaxillary glands; pain in one whole side of the gum, without the patient being able to point out the affected teeth; digging and gnawing in carious tooth, with looseness; stitches and beating pains in the whole affected side of head and face with tenesmus in ears.
Chimaphila [Chim]
Continues pain in upper teeth, extending into right eye; drawing in upper and lower tooth as if it were being gently pulled, (<) after eating and from exertion,(>) by cold water;cannot close teeth at night jaws feel stiff; sleeps with open mouth.
China [Chin]
Abuse of mercury (Asafoetida, Aur); TOOTHACHE OF NURSING MOTHERS, of persons who, otherwise cheerful, become cross and irritable; teeth covered with black spots; periodical throbbing, tearing, jerking and drawing pain, with great pressure, as if blood were being forced into the teeth, or boring and numbness about teeth, (<) from contact, moving body, tea, open air or current of air; (>) from pressing teeth together;gums swollen; mouth dry thirst; veins in forehead and hands distended; uneasy sleep, though the pain in bearable; toothache during sleep.
Chloral [Chlol]
NEURALGIA OF INFERIOR DENTAL BRANCH OF FIFTH NERVE; excruciating pain from decayed tooth, with neuralgia affection of jaw; traumatic toothache from pressure of filling.
Dr. Samuel Lilienthal was the author of many great books including “Homeopathic Therapeutics”. For many years, with the support of Dr. Constantine Hering, he was the editor of the North American Journal of Homeopathy. Dr. Lilienthal passed away on February 2nd 1891 in San Francisco.