On my recent camping trip around bits of Australia, i experienced a fairly excruciating toothacre in the middle of nowhere - no dentists for many, many kms, and it was night and on the weekend as well. painkillers, even a hefty dose of some with codeine, didn't help at all. luckily i had with me a small bottle of clove oil, which did the trick.
it's one of those cases though, where the cure isn't a lot better than the ill - it's poisonous for a start, and the advice is to get to a hospital fast if you swallow more than a miniscule amount. it's hard not to swallow a little, and it makes you really nauseous, but you're not supposed to induce vomiting. it's also highly caustic - i've been told that if you get it in your eyes and there isn't a copious amount of water around to flush it out you'll beg for death. there wasn't much water around in the outback where i was (well, i had plenty, but i needed it for drinking - easy to dehydrate out there) so i was very very careful not to get it in my eyes. it blisters your lips and facial skin if it comes into contact with these (and it does, because you generate oceans of saliva when it's in your mouth, and your mouth goes numb, just as if you'd had an injection at the dentist - you drool like an idiot). somehow, it doesn't blister the inside of your mouth.
Anybody else have any experience with this stuff?
Originally posted by latex bishopi took along a lot of stuff for first aid - i knew that clove oil is good for toothache, and i know the outback is no place to have a toothache, so i took some along - just in case...very grateful that i did.
If its that nasty why did you have it in the first place?
Andrew
A 67% match of topic here: medical (yes), oil (yes), clove (no)
But an interesting snippet regardless
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3907559.stm
As for clove oil: somewhat dangerous stuff (much like lavender oil, which can trigger seizure in epileptics but not may folk know it). Suck on a clove was the info I heard. Cloves contain both a antiseptic and an analgesic and as all analgesics are poisons, dosage is VERY important!
Originally posted by dfm65* having an image of you wandering around the outback drooling, blistered, moaning. I'll bet you scared the kangaroos away. 😀
On my recent camping trip around bits of Australia, i experienced a fairly excruciating toothacre in the middle of nowhere - no dentists for many, many kms, and it was night and on the weekend as well. painkillers, even a hefty dose of some with codeine, didn't help at all. luckily i had with me a small bottle of clove oil, which did the trick.
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Anybody else have any experience with this stuff?