This plant has been used for potentially millennia as a natural remedy. But does it help toothaches and ulcers? We will look at the scientific literature to seek to find answers to these questions.
I have friends here in FL who grow toothache plants and they asked me if I wanted to try it. Not knowing anything about it at the time, I popped a large flower head right in my mouth. Wow. What an experience. I too couldn't hold a conversation I was salivating so much and completely numb on one side of my mouth. I can certainly see how it would relieve a sore tooth. Or at the very least give you some fun times with your friends. 😉
When I was studying for my certification I was at a garden center one day, looking at the medicinal herbs they had on offer. A lady who worked there asked about my interest in herbs. I told her I was studying to earn my certification and we chatted a while. When I started to head to the checkout counter, she gifted me a toothache plant~~the first time I'd seen or heard of it. Chewing on it reminds me of chewing on yarrow root. You described the sensation well.
This video is better and more useful than any video I have ever made. In fact, I don't make videos for others to see. That being said, I wish that the narrator would do more and talk less in future films on herbs. The whole point of a watching an internet video is to get away from reading the encyclopedia and see things in action. When a person eats a buzz button (a flower from Acmella oleracea), how do they describe the taste? Also, if we jump cut to footage one hour later, how are we feeling? Is there a sensation of numbness in tongue? numbness in the cheeks? Nausea? How about video recordings from four hours later, or eight hours later? Most people do not need to **see** the nausea visually demonstrated, but it would be nice to hear someone use words to describe what the effects of eating a particular medicinal plant. More than half of the writings on various herbs you find on the internet are works of fiction. For example, I found a translation of an ancient text on hong gouchu chile peppers (Korean chili peppers). The text claimed that many people died eating the chile peppers at some a historical political gathering. I do not think that anybody died. The peppers very spicy, but not deadly. For medicinal, we can benefit from having people, on camera, showing what the leaves look like, showing the flowers, eating the herb, and describing the effects after 1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours, etc... The writings on these things are not very reliable. I do not want to read about how some magic herbs helps with liver problems, kidney problems, lung problems, and makes people live an extra 50 years. Most people want to know what they will actually physically experience (numbness, alertness, tiredness, etc...). The fact that opium poppies eventually lead scientists to create many anesthetics and sedatives shows that some plants are useful. However, there is so much false advertising in the herb industry that people making videos where they ingest the herb and describe the affects might be the only way to learn about the true effects.
You had me at worst pain ever lol. I agree, yet will add that (for me) an earache can be equally as devestating.. perhaps another subject y'all can address😊 Am growing toothache for the first time this year and am really looking fwd to making a tincture; best guess on how long it might keep/stay effective?
I just tried one today. Yuk!!! Sour and terrible and made my mouth tingle. Did not really numb toothache area but i was spitting like crazy. VERY unpleasant taste.
Most medicines have a bad taste. That's why various medications are packed inside of capsules in factories. The capsules don't taste like much. Just put the tablet, or capsule, in your mouth, and swallow a few mouthfuls of water, and you won't have to taste it. If the herb is ground into a dry powder and the dry powder is packed inside of empty gelatin capsule, then the resulting medicinal product will not taste like much if swallowed quickly. It does not have to be gelatin. When I was a child, my mother still had some sugar-coated medicine. They were very small tablets, so that the dosage could be reduced for young children, and they were very sweet on the tongue. The sugar dissolves quickly though, if you do not swallow the sugar coated tablets quickly. My main point is that there exist ways of making bad-tasting herbs and medicine taste better.
