This is what happens when you start eating 2 cloves a day!

#3 – Relieve toothaches

Toothaches can be really painful and irritating since you may have to wait quite sometime before you can schedule a dentist appointment. Remember when we said that cloves were used in traditional medicine for centuries? This was one of its most common uses: as a technique to relieve a toothache fast.

The compound we mentioned earlier, eugenol, has anti-inflammatory properties and acts as an anesthetic. This means that it will simultaneously ease the pain, and reduce the swelling and irritation provoked by the hurting tooth.

Likewise, this substance will also help reduce pain and inflammation on other parts of the body – it is commonly used as a headache remedy, for example.

Nowadays you can find clove oil on any pharmacy or supermarket in the form of a product specifically designed to relieve toothache pain.

But you need to be careful: ingesting it can lead to severe breathing difficulties, burning sensation in the nose and throat, diarrhea, and stomach pain. If you feel any of these side effects even without ingesting the oil, go see a doctor immediately.