HERB - Dental Health

[Kathleen H. Keeler]

>Someone recently posted on our Kingdom list asking about period dental
>health, and herbal dental / pain treatments.  I was all ready to tell
>them about clove oil, and copy the recent quote here about a period use
>of clove (and maybe rose?) for a bad tooth, but of course, I can't find
>it.  Does someone still have that (where they can find it?) and could you
>send it back to the list?  While we're at it, does anyone else have
>anything they want to add to that one?  I remember Digby has some
>recipies for tooth powders, I will try to get some time to find them and
>post them.
>How's that for a new topic?
>Christianna

Christianna
   I don't have it here but from Macer (Germany, 1200, Latin verse)
Clean teeth with ashes of vine branches.
He also reports what can only be a charm: for a toothache, dig up balm
(_Melissa_) without using iron, touch it to the tooth three times, each
time spitting, and replace the plant (still without using iron) in the
ground and if the plant lives you will surely no longer be bothered with
the tooth ache.
and
"The powder of a dry rose helps against sores of the mouth.  Powder of rose
flowers, rubbed on the lips or mixed in honey is good for cracked lips and
gums."
Agnes
kkeeler1 at unl.edu


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