Home Remedies for Mouth Ulcers

The discomfort cause by mouth ulcers is excruciating. You cannot taste the food without soreness. Your mouth don’t experience flavor in food you eat but pain. There are many home remedies of mouth ulcers that we have somehow forgotten and which are fairly effective and bring respite in short period. But ahead of explaining the home remedies to you, let me first talk about the causes of mouth ulcer, which is very essential in preventing the ulcers to resurface time and again.

Main Causes of Mouth Ulcers

Mouth Ulcers are not infectious and cannot be spread from person to person. Minor Ulcers can be caused by incidentally biting the inside of cheek while eating or talking, it can also be caused by using sharp objects like pencil, broken teeth edges, while brushing etc, but the ulcers that reoccurs over and over again may be the hint that something is not well within us. These troublesome Mouth Ulcers can be caused by any of the following stated reasons.

1)      Hormonal Changes: Hormonal Changes is one of the basic reasons, particularly in women during their monthly period.

2)      Nutritional Deficiencies: Deficiencies such as iron, vitamins, particularly B12 and C.

3)      Stress and Anxiety: Many people experience mouth ulcers during the time when they feel over stressed out or anxious over any important issue.

4)      Allergic Food: Eating, drinking or smoking certain food like chocolate, coffee, wheat or barley flour (Coeliac disease due to Gluten), nuts (peanuts, almonds etc), cigarettes (especially when leaving it) and all shorts of chewing tobacco.

5)      Allergic reactions due to Medication: Some anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen, aspirin, drugs used in heart problems like Nicorandil etc can cause reactions that are reported to be the cause of mouth ulcers.

6)      Cohn’s diseases: This causes inflammation in gut, leads to ulcers in both mouth and stomach.

Home Remedies for Mouth Ulcers:

1)      Mix a teaspoon of Alum (phitkari) powder in a liter of water. Gargle 3-4 times a day with it.

2)      Rub some butter or purified butter over ulcers before going to bed for instant relief from burning sensation and for cure.

3)      Chew some cardamom and

candy sugar, for fast recovery.

4)      Rub paste of Harad (Chebulic Myrobalan) over ulcers. It’s is very effective. 

5)      Chew few pieces of dry coconut 3-4 times a day. Also you can grate fresh coconut and extract milk from it. Gargle 3-4 time a day will bring fast relief.

6)      You can also gargle with fenugreek seeds and leaves, whatever suites you. Just put a spoon of seeds or a cup of leaves in hot water for few minutes and then gargle 3-4 times with the strained water.

7)      Coriander is also very effective in curing mouth ulcers. Boil coriander seed powder in water for some time. Filter it and gargle 3-4 times a day will definitely help.

8)      Amla (Indian Gooseberry) leaves also posses curative properties against mouth ulcers. Boil Amla leaves in water, filter it and make it cool. Gargle with it 3-4 times a day will indubitably help.

9)      Chewing of some pieces of Liquorice (mulethi) will help.

10)  Put two spoon of turmeric powder in glass of water. Mix it well and gargle.

11)  Always take Triphala power after food. It will keep your stomach healthy and will help in avoiding mouth ulcers in a long run.

12)   Eat lots of citrus fruits especially lemon, oranges etc to keep body alkaline and thus help to avoid mouth ulcers.

13)  Chew few guava leaves with catechu (kattha). It’s a potent home remedy for mouth ulcers.

14)  Chew few leaves of Holy basil (tulsi) 2-3 times a day.

15)  Chew some jasmine(chameli) leaves like a Paan will help.

  I hope these simple home remedies will prove beneficial and provide speedy respite from mouth ulcers.Bless you all.

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