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What are new practical insights to improve holistic health through oral hygiene?
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Oral hygiene is well known but its practice and advantages can be improved if it is conceptualized from physiological point of view. Hence some well experienced steps are given to improve oral hygiene.

Steps

  1. Please understand that oral hygiene is not merely meant for dental health. If practiced in a way given below it can improve health of brain, salivary glands, sinuses, taste buds, gums and teeth.
  2. After getting up in morning gargle mouth with plain water or slightly salted water. Salt makes it antimicrobial.
  3. Rub you palate with your thumb. This may appear clumsy. But rubbing of the whole palate stimulates the undersurface and floors of the sinuses and presumably helps improve the circulation in the snuses. This can prevent congestion and stagnation of blood and prevent infection in he sinuses. It can also help cure of infection. This is important because mere antibiotics may not penetrate [even if they are powerful] the sites of infection in the sinuses.
  4. Rub your upper gums from inside either your thumb or fingers. This would be useful to improve the blood supply to your upper gums and upper teeth.
  5. Rub the inner aspects of your lower gums. This would improve the circulation of lower gums and lower teeth.
  6. Rub the inner aspects of upper gums.
  7. Rub the outer aspects of your lower gums.
  8. Rubbing of inner and outer aspects of upper and lower gums can improve the health of salivary ducts and their openings from parotid and submandibular glands and sublingual glands.
  9. Rub the undersurface of your tongue. This will improve the health of sublingual salivary ducts and their openings.
  10. Rub the upper surface of your tongue. This would improve the health of taste buds and taste receptors.
  11. Oral cavity, oral structures and tongue have large representation in sensory homunculus and hence rubbing of oral cavity would stimulate these parts of brain. This is a unique and desirable stimulation not possible by any other means!
  12. Using tooth poweders containing ayurvedic herbs have added advantages. Hence one can use actachu, tomar seeds, turmeric, emblica officinalis, terminalia chebulia, Neem [azadiracta indica] etc.
  13. You may use tooth brush and tooth paste of your choice in addition to the steps described above.


Tips

  • The steps described are totally harmless.
  • It is better not to believe or disbelieve blindly.
  • It is better to provisionally accept the steps try out and then develop conviction about their utily or otherwise.
  • For those who like to pray, here is a prayer offered to the herbs used in the tooth powder.
  • AYURBALAM YASHO VARCHAS PRAJA PASHUNWASU NI CHA
  • BRAHMA PRAJNAN CHA MEDHA CHA TVAN NO DEHI VANASPATE
  • This is a Sanskrit prayer yearning for long life, physical strength, success, sharp intelligence, good progeny above all creativity and universal perspective.
  • The details of the meaning can be searched with help of Sanskrit in to English dictionary.
  • Prayerful attitude makes every activity sublime and oriented wowards one's own and global welfare.

Warnings

  • There are no clicical trials known to the author, regarding the authenticity of these steps. Hence these steps have to be if at all, followed by one's choice, at one's own risk.
  • One should be careful if there are ulcers, lesions etc., though by using fingers you can feel and judge small boils, absecesses etc which you can NOT feel by brushing. Hene brushing can be far more damaging in such cases.

Things You'll Need

  • You need nothing if you want to only rub your oral cavity.
  • You need a tooth powder or simply powdered table salt or common salt if you aim at additional oral hygiene and claning.



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