As the saying goes? Toothache is not a disease, it hurts to death. ? Anyone who has had a toothache knows this sentence very well. A pill for a slight toothache may be enough to relieve the pain. When the toothache is severe, you may need to see a dentist. Friends who have seen a dentist can probably understand the pain. We modern people want to say, what can ancient people do with toothache?

The ancients knew about dental diseases for at least 3,000 years, including Oracle Bone Inscriptions unearthed from Yin Ruins in Anyang, China. Bad teeth? 、? Dental caries? And other records. The ancients had different explanations for the causes of dental diseases. Is it mentioned in Huangdi Neijing, the earliest medical classic in ancient China? Kidney qi failure, toothache? It means that teeth will deteriorate due to kidney failure. According to the records of Chao, a medical scientist in Sui Dynasty, there are two reasons for toothache. Deficiency of marrow qi and Yangming pulse? ; The other is caused by tooth worms, which live in the crevices of the roots and feed on the teeth, and the pain caused by them can spread to the whole teeth.

The ancients put forward many methods to solve toothache. There is a record in Huangdi Neijing that acupuncture treats dental caries. Huangfu Mi in Jin Dynasty specially pointed out the acupoints for treating dental caries, such as Hegu, Shangyang and Xiaguan. Sima Qian in Historical Records? Biography of Bian Que records that Chunyu Kun, a famous doctor in the Western Han Dynasty, cured the doctor's dental caries by acupuncture and gargling with Kushen decoction. Zhang Zhongjing mentioned that realgar was used to treat children's dental caries in Synopsis of the Golden Chamber.

It is mentioned in Treatise on Various Diseases that dental diseases are an important cause of dental diseases, and the ancients also had many methods to treat toothache by treating dental diseases.

Mentioned in Wang Tao's Secret Recipe of Foreign Taiwan in the Tang Dynasty? At the end of realgar, mix jujube paste with pills, put the teeth in the hole with a little paste, and burn them with iron grates until they are completely heated. ? That is to say, first put the pills mixed with realgar powder and jujube paste into the tooth cavity, and then put the red-hot iron on the teeth, so that the teeth are completely hot, thus completely relieving pain. This pain-relieving method looks very painful.

Tang dynasty? Drug king? Sun Simiao recorded several tooth curses in his masterpiece Wings of a Thousand Daughters, such as? After the decision, the man swore to the Big Dipper: "Big Dipper, three ministers, one of them has a cockroach. If the wind closes the door, if all the cockroaches are collected, it is urgent to be a law. "Goodbye, three nights. ? But this spell can probably play a psychological role, but it can't really stop the pain. In addition, odontopathy can be treated by direct capture. Wang Chutong's Shangshu during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty? "The Door of Surgery" records the medicine girl who catches tooth worms. Unfortunately, there is no specific record in the literature.

Although there are many ways to treat toothache, nothing can compare with healthy teeth, so we should do a good job in tooth protection at ordinary times.