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The aloe vera miracle: A natural medicine for cancer, cholesterol, diabetes, inflammation, IBS, and other health conditions Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The aloe vera powder actually heals gums and eliminates gum disease. Merely drinking the aloe also helps heal your gums: Just swish the liquid around your mouth a few times before each swallow. You'll be bathing your gums in healing aloe gel, and they'll begin to heal rapidly. Even severe cases of gum disease can be completely cured in a matter of weeks using aloe vera gel. (By the way, most people with gum disease are also chronically deficient in vitamin D, so if you boost your vitamin D intake while treating your gums with aloe vera gel, your results will be greatly accelerated!

Defeating Diabetes Brenda Davis and Tom Barnard See book keywords and concepts

Mouth, Teeth, and gums ook at your mouth, teeth, and gums. Floss and brush your teeth carefully at least daily, ideally twice a day. Arc your gums red, sore, or swollen? Do they bleed when you brush them? Are your gums pulling away from your teeth? While dental diseases are very common for everyone, people with diabetes experience more of these problems, especially if blood sugar control is poor. High blood sugar encourages the growth of bacteria, increasing plaque buildup on your teeth. This contributes to redness, swelling, and bleeding of gums.

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An early stage of periodontal disease, gingivitis is a condition that involves an inflammation of the gums. Deposits of food particles, mucus, and bacteria often cause an accumulation of plaque. Gingivitis is the accumulation of plaque around the teeth that causes the gum tissue to become swollen, red, and infected. The gums often bleed. Aside from poor dental maintenance and care, a poor diet, poorly fitted fillings that irritate the gums, and frequent breathing through the mouth can also aggravate or cause gingivitis. If gingivitis goes untreated, it can develop into periodontitis.

PERIODONTAL DISORDERS Anyone who has had a periodontal disorder will tell you how important it is to take care of your teeth and gums. Periodontal disorders can include bleeding gums, gingivitis, and pyorrhea. These conditions can worsen and progress over time, resulting in infection, tooth loss, and major interventions, including extractions and surgeries. An early stage of periodontal disease, gingivitis is a condition that involves an inflammation of the gums. Deposits of food particles, mucus, and bacteria often cause an accumulation of plaque.

How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace Paul D. Blanc, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

In fact, a number of plants (particularly trees), in addition to containing water-soluble gums, produce a wholly different type of polymer known as resins, which are made up of repeating units of acid or alcohol molecules instead of long chains of sugars. Like plant gums, resins are sticky, but far more so. Unlike gums, resins have the peculiar property of not being very soluble in water. These poorly soluble plant resins provide the first inkling of a dangerous turn that glue making, in its first technological advance, was about to take.

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Its symptoms are swollen, soft, red gums that bleed easily. This condition often goes unnoticed since it is usually painless. In most cases, gingivitis results from poor dental hygiene practices; proper daily brushing and flossing and regular dental cleanings greatly decrease the chances of developing gingivitis. When gingivitis progresses untreated, periodontal disease can develop. In periodontal disease, plaque-filled pockets form between the teeth and gums. The gums become inflamed, enlarging these pockets and trapping even more plaque.

The aloe vera miracle: A natural medicine for cancer, cholesterol, diabetes, inflammation, IBS, and other health conditions Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Merely drinking the aloe also helps heal your gums: Just swish the liquid around your mouth a few times before each swallow. You'll be bathing your gums in healing aloe gel, and they'll begin to heal rapidly. Even severe cases of gum disease can be completely cured in a matter of weeks using aloe vera gel. (By the way, most people with gum disease are also chronically deficient in vitamin D, so if you boost your vitamin D intake while treating your gums with aloe vera gel, your results will be greatly accelerated!

Transdermal Magnesium Therapy Mark Sircus See book keywords and concepts

I rub it onto my gums ?I have gingivitis. My gums don't bleed anymore. I get a lousy taste in my mouth sometimes, but spay it 3 or 4 times in my mouth and it goes away. I also get swollen and painful glands in my neck ?didn't know I had so many glands until I got sick. Anyway, within 24 to 36 hours they will all clear up, after spraying the magnesium oil in the sides of my mouth and on my back molars, 3 times a day. I have gone for so long in the past with swollen glands that I have forgotten what my face really looks like.

Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis Tom Bohager See book keywords and concepts

Gingivitis is the accumulation of plaque around the teeth that causes the gum tissue to become swollen, red, and infected. The gums often bleed. Aside from poor dental maintenance and care, a poor diet, poorly fitted fillings that irritate the gums, and frequent breathing through the mouth can also aggravate or cause gingivitis. If gingivitis goes untreated, it can develop into periodontitis. This ailment is also often related to a deficiency of calcium, folic acid, niacin, bioflavonoid, or vitamin C.

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It is believed that crushing a baked, blackened eggplant and applying it to teeth and gums will promote a healthy mouth. This concoction is also said to stop bleeding gums and nosebleeds. Eggplant has been used as an antidote for poisonous mushrooms, to reduce hemorrhoids, soothe burns, and relieve cold sores. Throw Me a Lifesaver! HEART HEALTH: An animal study in Japan found that an anthocyanin unique to eggplant peels had anti-heart disease attributes. Rabbits with high cholesterol that were fed eggplant had decreased weight, total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and triglycerides.

The aloe vera miracle: A natural medicine for cancer, cholesterol, diabetes, inflammation, IBS, and other health conditions Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

You'll be bathing your gums in healing aloe gel, and they'll begin to heal rapidly. Even severe cases of gum disease can be completely cured in a matter of weeks using aloe vera gel. (By the way, most people with gum disease are also chronically deficient in vitamin D, so if you boost your vitamin D intake while treating your gums with aloe vera gel, your results will be greatly accelerated!) Aloe vera heals burns, cuts and scrapes When used externally, aloe is the best wound dressing ever discovered, far exceeding the capability of even the most advanced emergency room wound dressings.

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The increased prevalence of dental problems, including periodontitis (bacterial destruction of the bone and tissue supporting the teeth), abscesses, gingivitis (inflamed gums), dry mouth, and soft tissue lesions, among people with prediabetes or diabetes is associated with oxidative stress, glycation-induced damage, and increased risk of infection in gum tissue. Glycotoxins damage blood vessels, collagen, and other tissues and thus compromise the health of the gums and teeth.

How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace Paul D. Blanc, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Like plant gums, resins are sticky, but far more so. Unlike gums, resins have the peculiar property of not being very soluble in water. These poorly soluble plant resins provide the first inkling of a dangerous turn that glue making, in its first technological advance, was about to take. The initial incremental change in this direction occurred when artisans, using very simple materials, first figured out how to adapt the insoluble plant resins for other purposes, paving the way for a technological revolution in glue making that would eventually follow this same path.

Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness Tori Hudson, N.D. See book keywords and concepts

Vitamin C is involved in the manufacture of collagen, the main protein substance in the body, which results in its role in wound repair, connective tissue structures, vascular wall integrity, skin elasticity, healthy gums, and more. It is also critical to immune function, the absorption and utilization of other nutrients, and the manufacture of numerous hormones and nerve conduction substances, and it is an antioxidant. As early as the 1960s, ascorbic acid (vitamin C) was shown to be an effective urinary acidifying agent,19 a successful means of treating urethra and bladder infections.

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You can also put it on your gums as a preventive against periodontal disease. The active ingredient appears to be a compound called terpinen-4-ol, and good tea tree oil should be standardized to contain at least 30 percent of this compound. You also want to make sure it's standardized to contain no more than 10 percent cineole (preferably much less), which is an irritant. According to experts, the finest tea tree products come from the oil of the Alternifolia species of the melaleuca plant. Tea tree oil shouldn't be applied to broken skin or rashes that aren't from fungus.

Peelu is a natural twig fortified with minerals that help clean the teeth and other inhibitors that prevent gums from bleeding. It also has cleaning agents that kill microbes and germs and a scent that makes breath naturally fresh. Peelu is an ideal brush that has been naturally endowed with more breath-freshening, mouth-cleaning compounds than any artificially made toothpaste. Finally, herbs like coriander, ginger, cumin, and fennel are helpful. Indian restaurants usually provide a little bowl of fennel seeds for customers.

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Large doses of vitamin C did not help, but after taking niacin for 2 weeks for other reasons, his gums were healed. From this, Hoffer hypothesized that the niacin had increased the rate of repair of gum tissues, which had been under physical stress from maloccluded teeth. Professor Altschul thought that the most important single pathological factor in coronary disease was the inability of the intima (the inner wall of the blood vessel) to repair itself, especially where the blood stream changed direction, causing the greatest stress to the arteries.

These common appearances are large discoloured spots dispersed over the whole surface of the body, swelled legs, putrid gums, and above all, an extraordinary lassitude of the whole body, especially after any exercise, however inconsiderable; and this lassitude at last degenerates into a proneness to swoon on the least exertion of strength, or even on the least motion. This disease is likewise usually attended with a strange dejection of the spirits, and with shiverings, tremblings, and a disposition to be seized with the most dreadful terrors on the slightest accident.

Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness Tori Hudson, N.D. See book keywords and concepts

It is essential to the nerves, healthy gums, and teeth and prevents infection. Although one study showed that women who took 5,000 mg of vitamin C daily during pregnancy delivered healthy infants who developed scurvy,57 this "rebound scurvy" is very rare, and the infant recovers quickly without treatment. Supplementation with vitamin C may be as effective as calcium for leg cramps during pregnancy.58 Food sources of vitamin C are fruits (particularly citrus), green chilies, tomatoes, honey, cabbage, cucumbers, and prunes.

The aloe vera miracle: A natural medicine for cancer, cholesterol, diabetes, inflammation, IBS, and other health conditions Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

By the way, most people with gum disease are also chronically deficient in vitamin D, so if you boost your vitamin D intake while treating your gums with aloe vera gel, your results will be greatly accelerated!) Aloe vera heals burns, cuts and scrapes When used externally, aloe is the best wound dressing ever discovered, far exceeding the capability of even the most advanced emergency room wound dressings. It works by simultaneously sealing the wound while attracting an increased flow of blood to the wound, acclerating wound healing.

HydraBrush is a revolutionary toothbrush that cleans six surfaces at once Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Personally, I know the HydraBrush is a great gum stimulator -- because even though I have good dental health and I floss regularly, my gums bled slightly the first time I used the HydraBrush. Not in any kind of a painful way, but just enough to let me know that I still have room for improvement in my gum sensitivity. But then, the next time I used the HydraBrush, there was no bleeding at all -- and after using it routinely for several weeks now, my gums have greatly improved their health and appearance.

The Sunfood Diet Success System David Wolfe See book keywords and concepts

After fasting on water for a few days, brush your teeth clean and then consider giving your gums a complete physiological rest from food and brushing for several more days. If you have severe pain in a tooth, have lost a tooth, have an infection, have a chipped tooth, have bleeding gums, or if teeth problems persist, please see a holistic dentist. TEETH As you begin The Sunfood Diet, set up an appointment to have your teeth cleaned by a dental hygienist. Have all the excess residue removed from your teeth. This will help give you a fresh start.

HydraBrush is a revolutionary toothbrush that cleans six surfaces at once Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The gum stimulation is just aggressive enough to really build up your gums and reduce their sensitivity to flossing or other forms of stimulation. You can also adjust the aggressiveness of the brush by adjusting your bite on the HydraBrush dual heads. The harder you bite down, the more aggressive the gum massage gets. Personally, I know the HydraBrush is a great gum stimulator -- because even though I have good dental health and I floss regularly, my gums bled slightly the first time I used the HydraBrush.

Innovative dried aloe vera gel product now available from Good Cause Wellness Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

This will coat your gums with aloe vera gel, inhibiting the growth of damaging bacteria and providing healing nutrients to delicate gum tissues. (It's one of the little-known dental health secrets that should be common knowledge, but isn't.) I'm fairly certain that the customer response to this product will be strong, which means GCW will probably be temporarily wiped out of inventory after this article gets published, but Friedman will no doubt replenish his inventory and have more aloe available within a few weeks.

Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You Andreas Moritz See book keywords and concepts

Sick gums attract gram-negative anaerobic rods—primarily Bacteroids and Fusobacteria. Rinsing or irrigating the mouth with salt water several times a day is usually enough to prevent and reverse gum disease. For situations of advanced gum disease, however, Dr. Nara recommends you also use Sanguinaria, an herbal extract, which has been used as a mouth rinse for centuries by native cultures. Gum disease indicates the presence of large amounts of toxins in the body, especially in the alimentary canal which begins in the mouth and ends in the anus.

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Soluble fiber includes gums, mucilage, and pectins, all of which are found primarily in plant cells. One of the most important qualities of soluble fiber is its ability to help regulate blood glucose levels: it absorbs water in the intestinal tract, combines with the digesting food to make a gel, and thus slows the rate at which glucose is metabolized and absorbed from the intestines. This slowing process also steadies the rate of insulin secretion. Another fantastic benefit of eating soluble fiber is that it can help you lose weight.

PDR for Herbal Medicines Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

Miller IN, In: Industrial gums, Ed. R. L. Whistler, Academic Press 1973. Oshio H, Inouye H, (1982) Planta Med 44:204. Popov S, (1978) IUPAC Int Symp Chem Nat Prod 11(2):61 (via CA 92:59170). Sandhu JS et al., Carbohdr Res 93:247-259. 1981. Tomoda M et al., (1987) Planta Med 53(1):8. Further information in: Chan EH et al. (Ed.), Advances in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research, World Scientific Pub. Co. Singapore 1985. Hansel R, Keller K, Rimpler H, Schneider G (Hrsg.), Hagers Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, 5. Aufl.

Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness Tori Hudson, N.D. See book keywords and concepts

Fluctuations in hormones during perimenopause and lower levels in menopause are involved in inflammation of the gums, sensitivity of the teeth, tooth loss, and a burning sensation in the mouth and tongue. These symptoms may be a sign of more serious problems as well. Tooth loss may be associated with low bone density and osteoporosis. Burning sensations in the mouth can be a symptom of diabetes or anemia, and gum inflammation may be relared to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Heart Palpitations.

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