Gum Disease Natural Treatments

Your gums are receding, what do you do?

1. Understand the Real Cause

Our bodies were designed to support healthy teeth and gums for the majority of our lives. Since many of us do not have healthy teeth our entire lives, something must be wrong. Is what is wrong that we have been infested with plaque forming bacteria and we do not floss enough? Or, is it our lifestyle, the way we are living that is the problem?

2. Accept Responsibility

If you are not a victim of bacterial disease, and somehow your habits have caused the disease, then you can be empowered to make a change. The second step, is accept that you are responsible for causing and treating the illness. Responsibilty is different than blame. It is not your fault, since in general the media, schools, doctors and the government miseducate us, but it is now your responsibility to understand why, and to take control. Reclaim it!

3. Heal Your Body

Using special foods, you can heal your body. I encourage the use of a diet consisting of nutrient dense whole and unrefined foods. You also must avoid foods that harm your body. In my book, I describe what foods I suggest to reverse tooth decay, the same should work for gum degeneration. The best solution to healing the body is one that not many people want to endeavor to take - utilizing raw foods (animal foods, not just fruits and vegetables). I suggest minimizing consumption of all sweet foods, and replacing them with vegetables, proteins, and fats. What is especially good at healing the body is non-sweet vegetable juices like 80% celery/ 20% parsley and raw milk smoothies consisting of raw milk, raw cream, and raw eggs. For those serious about completely healing their body, I suggest the primal diet. In my book I offer a list of special foods that need to be eaten, to the very least, it should help the condition.

4. Natural Remedies

The category of natural remedies is not to be meant as the sole solution. This solution must be used in combination with a diet for long term results. Natural treatments can be great healers, but why not address the root cause, the biochemical imbalance, and the misfunctioning body, that can be corrected through dietary adjustments?

Keep in mind, I have not personally tested these following treatments, some of these have been reffered to me, other's I have found on my own.

Herbs

Goldenseal powder placed on the tooth or adjacent tooth tissue may help heal or minimize gum disease symptoms.

White Oak Bark (Powdered)

A Gum Surgeon’s Worst $2.65 Nightmare—White Oak Bark Powder

This is a story by, Dr. Moffat, of a man who had bleeding, infected gums with pus coming out of the gum. His dentist wanted to do $1600 worth of gum surgery. Two months later using white oak bark powder, his teeth were healed. Read this great article.

"Myrrh gum powder quickly cleared up a slight but long-standing gum infection for me."

Vicco (Vajradanti) Pure Herbal Tooth Powder - and other tooth powders made in India using herbs.

Dr. Schultz Tooth And Gum Formula

Here's the recipe for Dr. Schultz Tooth and Gum Formula! A few dropperfuls of it to the water in the water pik otherwise it kind of makes you want to cough.

Tooth & Gum Oil - For receding, rotting gums and teeth, diseased dental bone

Ingredients:

* 10 oz Echinacea Tincture
* ¼ cup Tea tree oil
* 4 oz Bayberry tincture
* 2 oz Oak Gall (or 3x oak bark) tincture
* 2 Tablespoons Cayenne tincture
* 2.5 dropperfuls Peppermint oil
* 2.5 dropperfuls Clove oil

Shake well before use.

Also see the related page of treating tooth pain naturally.

Homeopathy For Gum Disease

Symptomatic Relief from Gingivitis
Gum Therapy Homeopathic Drops, 2 oz with dropper

Restore swollen, bleeding gums and get fast relief from gingivitis discomfort with Gum Therapy. Developed by renowned homeopathic physicians Steven and Kimberly Litvak, Gum Therapy combines eight different homeopathic ingredients in a unique, effective, easy-to-use formula. And each bottle contains a 3-4 month supply.

Ingredients:
Calendula Officinalis,Mercurius 5C, Arnica Montana, Plantago Major, Phytolacca Decandra, Phosphorus, Carbo Veg 5C, Eugenia Caryophllata, USP Alcohol 33%, All ingredients are HPUS.

Advertised "Gum Cure" Internet Products

These products may work, but they are usually extremely over priced. Again, these products will not likely cure the gum disease over the long term because they don't inhibit the physical degeneration of the body.

A high quality herbal product usually costs $10-20 for a bottle. Organic bulk dried herbs cost a fraction of that, usually $1-5 for a sandwich bag full. Many of these internet products charge 2x -50x the real value of their products. They offer a money back guarentee, so in some ways, it cannot hurt to try it, but most people probably just don't take the time to return their items after they try it and are dismayed again that nothing works.