Favorite Ways to Ease the Pain of a Toothache
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Have a toothache? We would suggest that you go to the dentist, but to help pass the time while you wait for your appointment, consider this (not-so-practical) advice from 1991’s The Best of The Old Farmer’s Almanac compilation book.
Toothache Remedies to be Taken with a Grain of Salt
The Simple but Disgusting Methods
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Eat grasshopper eggs.
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Place fresh cow manure on the side of the face where the ache occurs.
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Hold a live frog against the aching cheek.
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Apply a crushed ladybug to the aching tooth.
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Never wash on a Tuesday.
The Weird and Complicated Methods
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Take the tooth of a murdered man or, better still, an executed criminal and apply it to the aching tooth in a graveyard at midnight under a full Moon.
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On Good Friday, comb your hair and collect the hair that falls out. Burn it and inhale the fumes.
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Pick your teeth with the nail of the middle toe of an owl.
Better to Have the Toothache
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Eat the eyes of a vulture.
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Bite off the head of a live mouse, put it in a bag, and suspend it from your neck. The ribbon or thread must not have a knot in it.
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Press the finger of a corpse against the aching tooth.
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If all else fails, an ancient Chinese physician recommended a pill of arsenic, which the patient should “put close to aching tooth, then sleep. Cure certain.” And final.
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