Mercurius [Merc]
Toothache from caries, or when dentine is inflames; tearing lacerating shooting into face and ears, returning in damp weather or evening air; worse from warmth of bed, from cold things; better from rubbing cheek;toothache during day and ceasing at night, followed by perspiration and pains return in the morning in paroxysms with longer or shorter intervals, alternating with giddiness or tearing in limbs;teeth loose, gums swollen, white ulcerated detached from teeth, burn and ache when touched; gums itch, bleed and suppurated with tearing through the root of teeth and painful swelling of cheeks and submaxillary glands; pulsating toothache, worse at night; gumboil; ptyalism; peevish or whining mood.
Mezereum [Mez]
Caries of teeth, with burning, boring or drawing stitches, extending to facial bones and temples; sensation as if even sound teeth were dull and elongated and torn forcibly from the maxilla; teeth decay suddenly on the sides above gums; tarter on teeth becomes rough; worse by contact, motion, or in the evening, with chilliness, rush of blood to head; better with mouth open or when drawing in air; feeling or rigidity and drawing pains in the affected side of head; constipation; loss of appetite; ill-humor.
Muriatic-acid [Mur-ac]
Pulsating toothache from cold drinks, with earache; tingling toothache; better from warm application; gums swollen, bleeding, ulcerating, so that teeth rise from their sockets; peevish and restless, frequently changing position; prostration and drowsiness.
Natrum-carb [Nat-c]
Digging-boring toothache m especially during or after eating sweetmeats or fruit; great sensitiveness of lower teeth;night;y pressing toothache, with swelling of lower lip and gums; pain lessened by smoking; increased salivation; (<) from sweet things (Kali carb., great desire for sweets).
Natrum-mur [Nat-m]
Epulis fistulas dentalis; drawing-tearing pain from teeth to the ears and throat after eating and at night; sensitive to air and touch; cheek swollen; decayed teeth feel loose, burn, sting and pulsate; gums sensitive to warm and cold things, swollen, bleed easily are putrid.
Natrum-sulph [Nat-s]
Throbbing toothache, with great restlessness, worse from warm, but intolerable to hot drinks;better by cool air; gums burn like fire; blisters with burning pain on tip of tongue.
Nitric-acid [Nit-ac]
Beating jerking stitching and drawing pain, especially in the evening in bed, lasting all night;after abuse of mercury, teeth feel elongated, become yellow and loose; gums white, swollen, bleeding, caries of teeth, excessive physical irritability and weakness.
Nitrum [Kali-n]
Toothache at three in the morning worse from cold things; sensation as if were rushing in and out from decayed tooth;gums red, swollen, bleed easily; foetor oris.
Nux-moschata [Nux-m]
Suits children, women (particularly during pregnancy), people with cool, dry skin, who do not perspire easily for pains from taking cold in damp, cold weather, or from night air; from washing from touch or sucking teeth; better from warmth; worse from shaking of body in going up or down stairs; pains in from teeth during pregnancy as if tooth were wrenched out; teeth easily become blunted; pain begins on right side and goes to left.
Nux-vomica [Nux-v]
Toothache, with swollen face; worse from reading or thinking from cold or cold things, from coffee or wine; better from warm drinks; stinging in decayed teeth; burning stinging in a row of teeth; teeth feel too long, with jerking-shooting pains in lower jaw; drawing pain, extending into the temple; pain from a hollow tooth, affecting the whole face and even the whole side; drawing and burning pains in the nerve of tooth, as if it were wrenched out, accompanied by violent stitches affecting the whole body; particularly on inspiration; worse in bed and in the evening; prevent chewing; grow worse or return as soon as the mouth is opened in the cold air; glands beneath lower jaw painful; gumboils, which seem about to burst; gums white, putrid bleeding.
Oleand [Olnd]
CONSTANT TOOTHACHE DURING NIGHT, ceasing on rising from bed and again appearing when lying down (Coccinella, the reverse), with anxiety as if he were to die, frequent micturition, qualmishness and heat of left cheek.
Petroleum [Petr]
Abscess at the root of a tooth, with a swelling externally, painful top touch; fistula dentalis; sensation of coldness in teeth; toothache from contact with the fresh open air; at night with swelling of the cheek; numbness of teeth, they pain when biting on them and when stooping.
Phosphorus [Phos]
Toothache from washing clothes, from having the hands in cold or warm water;pricking and stinging in decayed teeth; gums stand off from teeth and bleed easily; constant gumboils, incipient disease of maxilla.
Phosphoric-acid [Ph-ac]
Hollow teeth ache only when food gets into them; teeth become yellow and feel dull; bleeding swollen, tearing pains in teeth; worse in warm bed from heat or cold; burning in front teeth during night.
Piper-meth [Pip-m]
Toothache and earache; pains agonizing with tossing, twisting and writing, shooting into the ear, temporarily (>) by the attention being diverted ( Baryta carb) digging sometimes tearing pains generally (<) at night, in bed, while and after eating pain compels constant change of position.
Plantago [Plan]
Excessive boring and digging and digging pain profuse flow of saliva, worse by walking in cold air and by contact; teeth feel elongated and sore; soreness even of sound teeth while eating; very rapid decay of teeth, bleeding of gums (Mez.)
Platina [Plat]
Pulsating digging through the whole right jaw, worse towards evening and at rest followed by numbness; crampy sensation and numbness in the affected side of face; pains come and go gradually; rhagades in the gums; sensation of coldness in mouth; crack, p pains, numb feeling and boring in malar bones, with feeling of coldness in affected side.
Plumbum [Plb]
Teeth hollow, decayed, crumbling off and smelling offensively; teeth turn black;yellow mucus on teeth; gums swollen painful with hard tubercles with lead-colored line.
Psorinum [Psor]
Stitching in teeth from one side to another, radiating to head, with burning in right cheek, which is swollen; teeth feel so loose, fear that they may fall out, worse touch; ulcers on gums; foul taste.
Pulsatilla [Puls]
Stitching-digging pain worse in evening or early night, a drawing- tearing sensation, as if the nerves were drawn tense and suddenly let go; shooting in gums, looseness of painful teeth; throbbing digging in hollow teeth, with otalgia and drawing extending to eye; jerking tearing in tooth, as if it would start from the jaw; worse in spring at night, from picking teeth, in warm room or warm bed, when eating but not from chewing, from cold water, or from anything warm in. mouth, during pregnancy, better from walking about the toothache mostly ceases entirely in the open air, or returns of gets worse in a warm room; heat of head, with chilliness of body no thirst.
Ratanhia [Rat]
TOOTHACHE DURING PREGNANCY, (<) at night, must get up and walk
about; teeth seem too long; digging pain in lower back teeth, shooting and jerking fungoid softening of the gums; breath offensive; tasteless water collects in mouth.
Rhododendron [Rhod]
Neuralgia of inferior and superior dental nerves; teeth loose, snags come away; gums swollen; worse from change of weather, and from cold water better from warmth; toothache with earache; pains cease entirely during and for an hour or two after eating; violent tearing-jerking faceache, better while eating and from warmth.
Rhus-tox [Rhus-t]
Painful sensation of elongation and looseness of teeth, with sensation as if asleep; toothache, with stinging at root of nose, extending to malar bones; jumping-shooting pain as if teeth were being torn out;slow pricking, throbbing and tearing, extending into jaws and temples; face sore; worse at night from cold, vexation; better from external heat;offensive smell from carious teeth; gouty, rheumatic or tettery patients.
Robinia [Rob]
Burning-lancinating pains especially in carious teeth, spreading to cheeks, eyes and temples, worse at night, or even coming in contact with food, especially cold or spiced food; teeth become loosened from the spongy and easily-bleeding gums.
Sabina [Sabin]
Beating or aching pains in the evening or at night, in bed, after eating, with sensation as if the tooth would fly to pieces, or would be torn out, (<) by drinking, smoking, heat of bed; (>) by rising up; swelling of gums around the broken tooth, drawing toothache, caused by masticating; frequent belching; beating in the whole body, chronic ailments of women.
Sabadilla [Sabad]
Remittent or intermittent toothache often extending over whole side of face;worse from hot cold food or drink, from walking in the cold, even with the mouth shut.
Sepia [Sep]
Early decay of teeth, which feel dull; drawing toothache in upper molars, extending to ear, especially at night; beating and stitching pains, especially with patients of a yellowish complexion;gums dark-red, swollen, painful as if burned bleeding from slightest touch;swelling of cheeks cough and swelling of submaxillary; toothache when coughing (Lycopodium).
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.