Different pain meds work better for different issues - like ibuprofen for muscle pain, Tylenol for headaches, etc. For whatever reason, clove works really well for mouth pain. Don't know the mechanism, but it does. It feels exactly like getting your gums numbed if you accidentally get it on your lip (as I've done a few times...) You can buy the oil and use it as a topical pain reliever if you like, but other things tend to work better... Like menthol stuff...

Glad the tooth is taken care of Art

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It's got eugenol in it. Natural anesthetic.

I like the smell of cloves, but clove oil can really get overpowering. Kind of like vinegar's great for cleaning, but you wouldn't want the house to smell of it.

I suspect because it tastes horrible. Before I had all my extractions and implants done I basically had constant abscesses and toothaches. One was so bad that I pulled my own tooth because it was Saturday afternoon. That's major pain, when you yank out your own tooth and its BETTER.
I used a lot of clove oil packing. If it gets on your tongue its so nasty that it used to make me throw up. It worked really really well but its just horrible stuff.

Today I feel like I wished I had killed myself all the times I threatened in the past.