Best remedies and interventions for receding gums?
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@Jennifer
Really appreciate the detail. Would you mind sharing the routine you used for your dog? I don't bark too loud, but I'm thinking of trying it! -
@Mossy said in Best remedies and interventions for receding gums?:
@Jennifer
Really appreciate the detail. Would you mind sharing the routine you used for your dog? I don't bark too loud, but I'm thinking of trying it!Haha! Well, Bee was following the same program as me, even ate a similar diet, so humans can certainly benefit from it, too. He started out on the Heal All tea—about 1/4 cup added to his food 3x a day, then I switched him over to the Heal All glycerin tincture out of convenience. For dosing the tincture, there's a guide on the back that goes by weight. Bee was a little guy, a Maltese no more than 18 lb, so he got 1/4 of a dropper full 3x a day or 3/4 of a dropper full all at once, first thing in the morning, if I wasn’t going to be home to administer multiple doses. For comparison, at 99 lb, I was taking 1 dropper full 3x a day. His diet was composed of all his favorite foods that fit within Dr. Morse’s and Ray's dietary recommendations for dogs, as well as Dewitt's, a member on the old Peatarian forum whose family raised German Shepherds, and info I found on the website rationalmonofeeding.com. He ate melons, bananas, apples, squash, cucumber, carrots, green beans, sprouted peas, baby lettuces, young coconut meat, coconut cream, eggs, sea scallops and to drink, he loved raw coconut water, and I supplemented his diet with eggshell powder.
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@Jennifer
Thank you. So the benefit to the gums was purely from consuming the supplement, not rinsing or applying on the gums? I think what I will do is buy the Heal All tea, which must be the base for the Heal All tincture, and make my own tincture from it, using vodka.P.S. I plan on adding a bloodroot tincture as well. I've read good things about that for gums. Coincidentally, @Mauritio has noted that bloodroot is a "potent progestogen".
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@Mossy cool, let me know how it goes with bloodroot. I haven't tried it yet.
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You’re welcome, @Mossy.
Yes, solely from ingesting the Heal All. It works systemically, and we want it to work systemically because every symptom/condition is a manifestation of overall dysfunction within the body so, for example, if there is atrophied tissue like that of gum disease, there’s likely to be thyroid dysfunction, since the thyroid/parathyroid glands are the main glands responsible for the integrity of our tissues.Dr. Morse includes bloodroot in his most aggressive formulas for conditions like cancer, and it’s the active ingredient in the potentially caustic drawing salve 'black salve.' People have used it to draw out tumors and left burns, holes even, in their skin, and it has strong laxative properties so you may want to use caution with it. In my experience, there are more forgiving herbs for oral health and progesterone production. Dr. Morse has endocrine formulas, and one specifically for women that raised my progesterone level, confirmed via blood work, just as well as high doses (a bottle a week) of Progest-E, but without the side-effects I get from Progest-E.
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Following this thread
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@Jennifer
That detail helps, thank you. Maybe I'll start with taking the tea, and make a small amount of tincture from the tea base for future testing.I have read that bloodroot is very strong and stories similar to what you mention, where it was too caustic, but that was the black salve. My thought is to buy a pre-made tincture with it, so it would be already diluted. Either that, or make my own tincture with vodka and just make sure It's diluted.
That is exactly my objective with the pro-progesterone aspects of bloodroot: to get the benefits of progesterone without what I'd call feminizing effects that Progest-E gives me.
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@Mossy, I think your plan is sound. If you find you aren’t tolerating bloodroot or even the Heal All tea, as mentioned above, there’s always oregano. It’s effective for oral conditions like gum disease and raising progesterone levels and in an email exchange, Ray said it’s one of the safest spices:
“[Oregano oil] It's one of the safest spices (low allergenicity, not mutagenic or carcinogenic), so if it isn't combined with harmful excipients it seems worth trying.” Ray Peat
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@Jennifer
I have a hope that the tea will be the mildest of all my options — meaning, no bad side effects. I do remember reading about oregano on RPF and someone having good results for gums and oral health. I have made an extract with oregano in vodka, but gargling and rinsing with it was so harsh it got me sick. I may test that again, more diluted. I do have the oil diluted as well. Oregano is such a potent herb, I think I conveniently forgot about it after my experience with it. For me. it doesn't have the appeal of other spices where its scent and taste are appealing, like cinnamon, anise, or cardamom. Even strong clove I think is a more appealing than oregano. Even so, I will put it back on my list of things to retry. I wasn't aware of the progesterone properties of it. That is good to know — and good to know Peat likes it. -
@Mossy, I think you’re wise to go by what herbs appeal to you. That’s something I do and something even Dr. Morse, a man who has a love for all herbs, suggests. In regards to oregano’s potency, I’ve used pharmaceutical grade oregano oil from Greece that leaked and melted the plastic box it came in, it was that strong, and it was just as harsh on my insides (lol) so I understand what you mean. The only way I will take oregano now is in the form of an infusion/tea or the raw herb sprinkled in my food for flavoring.
Some assume the greater the potency, the greater the healing or that if it’s natural, it’s inherently safe, but that’s not always the case. One herb that comes to mind is belladonna. Prior to supplementing thyroid, when I still had gallbladder disease and daily gallbladder attacks, a friend I had on the old RPF asked Ray for suggestions and he said atropine to relax the bile duct. Belladonna contains atropine—it’s the source of the crude drug—but is highly toxic to domestic animals and at certain potencies has been shown to poison humans—early humans made poisonous arrows from it—so I bought some belladonna homeopathic pellets knowing that the amount of belladonna they contain is minute and they worked! It took thyroid to overcome the gallbladder disease—Ray said in an interview that anyone with gallbladder disease is without exception chronically hypothyroid—but the belladonna pellets brought relief until I was able to convince a doctor to prescribe me thyroid.
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@Jennifer
Wow, that is potent oregano; and now that you mention it, it is actually Greek oregano that I'm using in my oregano extract. I didn't purposely seek out Greek, but in my research it seemed to be quality. I definitely don't mind oregano in food, and actually like dishes that have it in it. Your using it as a tea is a good idea, when using it as a supplement.Very interesting about belladonna. I've never heard of that before, but will keep it in my notes for gall bladder issues. You've had to overcome a lot, but it's made you knowledgeable in the process.
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@Mossy, yeah, wild oregano from Greece is one the best and most potent. The carvacrol content of the one I had was insane. It should have come with a warning. lol Marjoram, savory and thyme are also good sources of the phenolic compound so even though they’re typically used for flavoring, culinary herbs are also medicinal. That’s one of the many reasons why I trust my tastebuds.
Regarding knowledge, I found it ironic that the more I learned about health, the unhealthier I became. It took a lot of unlearning to gain actual knowledge., i.e., the wisdom that comes from experience and not from the pages of medical journals or theories from claimed experts. -
@Jennifer
Well said — trust your taste buds. I don't think it's an accident I like many of the spices and herbs that have medicinal value. Indeed, I think we are in a state of unlearning, at least in the West, taking back our health from professional medicine gone askew. -
So I have had poor oral health for awhile. Gums would bleed terribly even after light brushing. After using Baking soda and Methylene Blue to brush my teeth and using a diluted magnesium chloride solution as a mouth wash and then ingesting I was able to completely stop my bleeding gums. Inflammation has entirely gone down as well.
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@BearWithMe Apparently xylitol helps bust streptococcal biofilms