Homeopathic remedy for canker sores

What are Canker Sores

Canker sores are products of times of stress. They are connected with nutritional issues, or some kind of allergy, either to specific type of food, or other allergenic substances. Homeopathic remedies can ease your problems with canker sores. They can reduce inflammations, help tissue to heal, or regulate and ease your pain from canker sores.

A good alternative to a regular medicament, especially one without a bad side effect can be homeopathic medicine. Unlike the regular medical approach, it treats a wide range of disorders and diseases. It takes a different approach on how to treat the patient completely, both physically and mentally. This approach means to address the whole person, with its habits and way of life, not just to cure the illness but to find a cause too. Homeopathic medicaments are not harmful and non toxic.

Homeopathic Solutions for Canker Sores

In the case where normal or regular medicaments are not efficient, you can use various homeopathic remedies to help you with your problem. Choose the one that best suits your type of problem. Information about dosage and frequency of use is best to consult with your homeopath. The usual principle is to start to use one remedy and see how it works, and than go for there. If you do not see improvement after some period of time, use a different remedy.

There are various homeopathic remedies that you can use for canker sores. Among them are:

Natrum Muriaticim (Nat mur) is effective in cases of pearly sores in the areas around mouth, tongue, nose, lips, gums and chin. The tongue may feel swollen, and there is a feeling of dryness in the person’s mouth. People with this problem also have cold sores issues. Cold sores are extremely painful and unpleasant. They are blisters or lesions in the area around the mouth and the lip. They are caused by the herpes simplex virus (HSV), which can be found in central nervous system.

Arsenicum album - Indication and symptoms for use of this kind of homeopathic remedy are painful sores in the mouth, feeling of tiredness and anxiousness. Warmth and hot drinks often helps person with this kind of problem to ease and relieve the pain.

Sulphur - Symptoms in persons with canker sores for this kind of remedy are a bitter taste in the mouth, throbbing and swollen gums, canker sores that are inflamed, red and painful.

Borax - This is a very useful remedy in cases when canker sores feels painful, hot and sensitive. Canker sores may also break inside the mouth. Persons with this kind of sores have plenty of saliva, but the mouth feels dry.

Nux vomica - This remedy is used for sore problems that are the product of some kind of eating of disproportional quantities of food, like spicy strong foods, lot of sweets, or alcohol abuse.

Calcarea carbonica - This is a good remedy for the little children and infants, when they have a recurred appearance of cancer sores. Calcarea carbonica may help adults too.

Mercurius solubillis - This is a very good remedy for cases of swollen tongue and bleeding gums. Pain in the sores gets worse at night.

Hepar sulphar calcareum - This is a good remedy for infected and painful mouth sores. Cold drinks makes the pain worse.

Latest Discoveries

Research and development in the field of medicine has revolutionized therapeutics. Integrating ozone therapy is one such revolution in the treatment of oral diseases. Ozone is found to work effectively when applied topically to the affected cutaneous and mucosal sites. Neverthless, the ozone is unstable. This unstable form of ozone molecules is stabilized with the monounsaturated fatty acid such as oleic acid. This product obtained as ozonated oil is employed to treat the abnormal cutaneous and mucosal areas of the body.

Sesame oil which is regarded as “queen of oils” is an edible oil which is extracted from sesame seeds. Literature supports the use of this oil as a house hold remedy to maintain the oral health. The evidence based research suggest the use of sesame oil in treating RAS patients owing to its inherent antimicrobial and anti- inflammatory activity which enhances in alleviating the pain symptoms there by fastening the wound healing.

Materials and methods of the observed study were:

A single-blinded placebo-controlled trial comprising of 30 subjects with recurrent aphthous ulcers were divided into Group 1, Group 2 and Group 3 with 10 subjects in each group was performed.
Patients in Group 1 received ozonated oil, Group 2 received sesame oil and Group 3 received placebo.
Treatment response was assessed by measures of pain reduction, ulcer duration on 2nd, 4th and 6th day.
Participants treated with ozonated oil showed significant reduction in ulcer size, erythema and also alleviated the ulcer pain on 4th day of evaluation when compared to sesame oil and placebo group. On 6th day subjects treated with ozonated oil and sesame oil showed significant reduction in ulcer size and erythema. No significant difference was observed in placebo group when compared with other two groups on subsequent 2nd, 4th and 6th day of evaluation.

✓ Fact confirmed: “Ozone” – The New Nemesis of Canker Sore Ayesha Thabusum Dharmavaram, R. Sudhakara Reddy, and Rajesh Nallakunta; 2015 Mar 1.