Offensive smell from the mouth is a common complaint in the day-to-day medical practice. It mainly affects those who mingle with others very closely. Mostly, friends and family notice foul breath, but occasionally, the person themselves notices it and seeks medical attention. Many people with unpleasant breath develop depression, which forces them to withdraw from society, thereby hindering their activities.
The anaerobic bacteria in the mouth degrade the proteins in the food debris. Bacterial activity produces an offensive odor by releasing gases such as hydrogen sulfide, scotol, and others. Formation of a thin sticky membrane on the tongue favors bacterial growth. The crypts of the tonsils, dental caries, dental pockets, and other areas also harbor bacteria. Oral hygiene, caries, gingivitis, tonsillitis, tonsillar plaques, food habits, water intake, tobacco chewing, stomach and liver diseases, and other factors are associated with foul breath.
Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician, introduced homeopathy as a medical system. Homoeopathy treats the diseased individual as a whole rather than treating diseased parts or organs. Homoeopathy considers the physical, mental, emotional, and social spheres of an individual to provide a permanent cure. This system holds that the derangement of vital force, an invisible power within every individual, causes diseases. In a healthy state, the vital force maintains the equilibrium of mind, body, and soul. During this, man will have normal sensations and functions. Affected vital force will manifest externally as signs and symptoms. An imbalance in the body's functions creates a haven for foreign organisms such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa, enabling them to proliferate and cause diseases. Homoeopathy posits that the true disease precedes the bacteria and viruses, necessitating the treatment of the disease's root cause for a lasting cure. The antibacterial and antiviral agents only remove the secondary causes mentioned above.
Toxic metabolic agents known as miasms, which are dynamic influences on the vital force, produce diseases. There are mainly three miasms: PSORA, SYPHILIS, AND SYCOSIS. Other schools of medicine accept these three causes, albeit under different names. Psora causes functional disturbances, Syphilis causes structural changes in the form of destructions, and Sycosis causes changes in the form of overgrowth. These three miasms can act individually or in combination, producing different disease conditions.
Giving the correct remedy in a suitable dose makes treating bad breath with homeopathic medicine easy. In the homoeopathic medical repertory by Dr. Robin Murphy, there are 140 homoeopathic drugs mentioned for foul breath. Therefore, prescribing a single homoeopathic drug for bad breath may not yield satisfactory results. To arrive at an accurate remedial diagnosis, we need to understand the patient's symptomatology. It encompasses all of a person's symptoms, including mental, physical, and specific ones. Bad breath is considered a physical general symptom. Though it originates in one body part, it affects the whole person.
Physical generals include symptoms related to appetite, thirst, bowels, and other conditions.
We meticulously record all the person's signs and symptoms, both mental and physical. We note down past illnesses, family history of diseases, food and bowel habits, relationships to climatic changes, constitution, and more in a systematic order.
Mental symptoms:
Examples include fear, anxiety, depression, anger, and jealousy.
Physical symptoms:
example: body makeup, appetite, thirst, desires, aversions, bowels,urination, sleep, taste, nature of smell, discharges any abnormal sensations like pain, burning, climatic changes, thermal relations, ect.
Peculiar uncommon symptoms:
This is the specialty of the homeopathic system of medicine. These symptoms are crucial for selecting a suitable remedy. The least important symptoms are those common to almost all patients.
particular/local signs&symptoms:
This includes signs and symptoms related to body parts and organs.
Examples include coatings on the tongue, the nature of the mucus membrane in the oral cavity, tonsils, gums, teeth, ulcers, discolorations, and more.
Systemic and general physical examinations:
Bad breath can be due to various systems and disorders. Therefore, it is important to examine all systems, including the respiratory system, digestive system, nervous system, and cardiovascular system, as well as all parts from head to foot.
Here, we diagnose probable diseases provisionally. In homeopathy, diagnosing a disease is not crucial for choosing a remedy, but it is necessary for overall management and understanding the prognosis.
Investigations:
This includes lab investigations and other methods to identify any other major illnesses.
Final disease diagnosis:
We diagnose the disease after conducting all investigations.
Remedial diagnosis:
This represents the most crucial aspect of homeopathy. We arrange the selected symptoms in a systematic order based on their importance.
We analyze symptoms to determine the significance of each symptom in selecting a remedy. We select remedies based on their similarity. The fundamental tenet of homeopathy is'similia similibus curenter', implying that similar symptoms can be treated similarly. A medicine that elicits certain symptoms in a healthy individual can serve as a remedy for similar symptoms in a diseased individual. The meteria medica records the symptoms collected from the drug proving process on healthy human beings for each homoeopathic drug.
A process known as repertorization diagnoses suitable remedies. Here books called repertories are used. Repertory is the index of symptoms of materia medica (books that contain the symptoms of drugs). Today, we use computer software for repertory. Through this process, we will obtain remedies that address the most significant symptoms of the patient.
We select the most suitable remedy from this group of remedies by consulting various books and the patient's history. We administer the selected medicine at a suitable potency and dose.
ANTI MIASMATIC TREATMENT:
The root cause of disease is miasms, which should be eradicated using suitable anti-miasmatic drugs. Any medication can effectively treat migraines, provided that the symptoms are similar. There are antipsychotic drugs, antisyphilic drugs, and antisycotic drugs. After diagnosing the miasm, a suitable anti-miasmatic drug has to be given to complete the cure.
Homeopathy prepares medicines from a variety of sources, including minerals, plants, animals, toxins, diseased parts, and more. Potentization, a special process, prepares medicines from these substances. Here, we potentize the soluble substances by diluting them with spirit, and grind the insoluble substances with sugar or milk. First, we mix the crude drug substance with a calculated quantity of spirit and water, then let it sit for a few days. We extract the mother tincture (denoted as Q) from this mixture. Potentization prepares dilutions from this mother tincture. Potentization is a mathematical process by which the quantity of the original drug substance reduces but medicinal power increases. Depending upon the ratio of quantity of drug substance and vehicle (spirit or sugar of milk), there are different scales for this process. Each scale has different potencies, which indicate the power of medicine. Example in decimal scale: 3x, 6x. In the decimal scale, there are 12x ect. In the centisimal scale, there are 30c and 200c ect. In the LM potency, there are 0/1,0/2, and 0/3 ect. Potency is written after the name of every medicine.
The same medicine is available in different potencies. We select a suitable potency based on numerous factors such as the severity, depth of the disease, the patient's condition, the nature of the disease, the type of symptoms, the patient's age, and so on.
There are some effective homoeopathic drugs for treating bad breath.
Arnica montana, Antim crude, Ars alb, Asafoetida, Aurum met, Baptisia, Bryonia, Borax, Calc carb, carbo veg, Cinchona, Chelidonium, Graphites, Kali bich, Kreosotum, Lachesis, Lycopodium, Merc Sol, Natrum mur, Nitricum acidum, Nux vomica, Plantago, Pulsatilla, Phos, Pyrogen, Sulphur, and many more.
1) Arnica montana:
This medicine is useful for fetid breath. The mouth feels extremely dry and has a strong desire for water. Bad breath is associated with fever. Periodontal bleeding may occur after tooth extraction or injury. Offensive gas passes upwards and downwards from the stomach. The patient is very sensitive to touch, with a sore and bruised feeling all over the body.
2) Antim Crude:
This medication is effective in treating bad breath, gastric issues, and tongue coating. This medicine acts mainly on filthy persons with an aversion to bathing. Tongue is coated white like fur. Nostrils and lips are cracked. Eructations are putrid. They are highly effective in treating children's bad breath.
3) Ars alb:
All discharges exhibit a cadaveric odor. The saliva exhibits a bloody color and a distinct odor. The patient clearly exhibits a thirst for warm water. This medicine acts well in debilitated and emaciated persons. Bad breath is associated with gastric disorders. Gastric disorders can cause vomiting from even the smallest food or drink, as well as intolerance to vegetables and watery fruits. Mentally, these patients are fastidious with an insecurity feeling. They are experiencing fear of death or serious disease, which is accompanied by restlessness and anxiety.
4) Asafoetida:
This remedy is beneficial for treating bad breath that is linked to eructation. Abdominal distension is severe, accompanied by a sensation of a ball rising in the throat. All discharges are offensive. Reverse peristalsis with loud eructations. This medicine acts well on hysterical persons.
5) Aurum met:
This remedy is beneficial for girls experiencing puberty who have bad breath. Gums are ulcerated and have a putrid or bitter taste to them. These patients notice destruction in their body tissues, including bone. This medicine effectively treats individuals who are depressed and experiencing suicidal thoughts. They also experience a sense of having committed an unforgivable crime.
6) Baptisia:
Breath is fetid with a bitter taste. Gums are sore and ulcerated. The center of the tongue has a yellowish brown coating with glistening edges. The tongue exhibits surface cracking. These patients feel it is difficult to swallow solid food. Tonsils are enlarged without pain. This remedy proves beneficial in cases of painless tonsillitis and pharyngitis, accompanied by a foul odor. All discharges are offensive. This medicine works effectively on individuals who have a besotted look. There is a tendency for stupor and delirium in these persons.
7) Borax:
This remedy is beneficial for mouth ulcers that cause bad breath. This remedy is also effective in treating fungal infections of the mouth. Mouth is scorching and tender.Ulcers bleed on touch. Children with mouth ulcers benefit greatly from this treatment for their bad breath. The child exhibits a fear of forward motion.
8) Bryonia:
People who are easily angered often engage in discussions about business. Lips parched dry and cracked. The tongue has a dark brown coating and leaves a bitter taste in the mouth. Thirst for a large quantity of cold water is well marked. Heaviness in the abdomen after eating.Usually constipated with hard, dry stools.
9) Calcarea fluor:
Plugs of mucus are continually forming in the crypts of the tonsils.The teeth become unnaturally loose, either with or without pain. Prone to caries with discoloration. Tonsils are enlarged with recurrent infection.
10) Carbo veg:
These patients are weak and debilitated. All body discharges are profuse and emit a cadeveric odor. Gums are retracted and bleed easily. The abdomen distends frequently due to putrid eructations. Complaints were ameliorated by passing a flatus. Can't tolerate meat and fat. Involuntary diarrhea at night. He desires close-range fanning.
11) Chelidonium:
Tongue is yellow with an imprint of teeth. The mouth emits a foul odor and a bitter taste. This remedy is beneficial for individuals suffering from liver complaints and experiencing bad breath. Thirst for hot liquids. Patient feels better by eating. Constipation with firm round stools.Constipation alternating with diarrhea.
12) Graphites:
This medicine acts well on obese patients with skin troubles. Breath smells like urine. Salivation and blisters in the mouth accompany the rotten odor. Sour eructations with gastric complaints. Skin complaints with sticky discharges. Gastric pain ameliorated by eating.
13) Kalibich:
Bad breath from a gastric ulcer.The mouth is covered in round ulcers. Saliva viscid. Vomiting with bitter taste. Tongue is smooth. Craves bear. Gastric complaints alternating with rheumatism.
14) kreosotum:
Teeth dark and crumbly. The mouth experiences a bitter taste and a putrid odor. Very rapid teeth decay. All discharges are very offensive. Gums are spongy and bleed easily. Bad breath is associated with caries and gastric complaints.
15) Lachesis:
This medicine acts on dark, restless patients with jealousy. The tongue is black-colored. Complaints are aggravated during sleep. Wants fanning from a long distance. He cannot tolerate clothing that is too tight around his body. Complaints escalated in a hot climate.
16) Lycopodium:
Treat intelligent people who are physically weak with respect. They lack self-confidence. They are effective in treating foul breath, which is linked to sour eructations and a burning sensation in the throat. Teeth are extremely painful to touch.There are blisters on the tongue. Wants warm food and drinks. These people are usually constipated. Craving for sweets is well marked.
17) Merc Sol:
There is a sweet, metallic taste in the mouth, accompanied by bloody, viscous saliva. Gum is spongy and bleeds easily. Mouth is moist with increased thirst. Teeth indented. The crown of the teeth decays. The room fills with the fetid odor emanating from the mouth. Ulcerations in the mouth with bleeding. All body discharges are offensive. All complaints are aggravated at night.
18) Nux vomica:
This medicine works effectively on individuals who lead a quiet life. They are very short-tempered and become frustrated very easily. They are very busy with their occupation and enjoy a modern, civilized life that includes a variety of food and drink. Bad breath is more common after meals and in the morning. The tongue coats the posterior part while the anterior part remains clean. Sour taste in the mouth, along with nausea in the morning.They have a frequent urge for stools. After eating, they experience a heavy feeling in their abdomen.
19) Plantago:
Dental caries with severe toothache. Pain is better when eaten. Salivation is better when eaten. Toothache with swelling of gums. Gargling with Plantago Q can provide relief from toothaches caused by caries.
20) Pulsatilla:
Act well on mild and gentle ladies with a yielding disposition. The patient is very timid and has a tendency to weep. The patient primarily notices bad breath in the morning. The mouth feels extremely dry, yet it resists the urge to drink water. A tenacious mucus covers the tongue, turning it yellow or white. Taste is altered. The taste of food remains in the mouth for a long time. Patients wash their mouths frequently.
21) Psorinum:
It's important to treat unclean patients with bad odors well. The main cause of bad breath in these patients is the hicking up of cheesy, pea-like balls with an offensive smell and taste. The patients' tonsils swell with profuse, offensive saliva. The throat is quisy and thick with mucus. All body secretions are filthy. Eructations taste like toxic eggs.They experience extreme hunger, often waking up at midnight in search of sustenance. Swallowing is painful, with pain in the ears.
22) Pyrogen:
This medicine cures bad breath of septic origin. The tongue appears red, dry, and smooth, as if it has been varnished. High fever and coffee-induced vomiting are associated with bad breath. Generally, patients' bodies are extremely sensitive to touch, and they are unable to rest on the bed due to the discomfort of bruising. All discharges are offensive.
23) Sulphur:
This medication is most effective for individuals who are dirty, have offensive odors, and are prone to skin diseases. The lips become bright red and experience a burning sensation. Tongue is white with red tips and borders. Bitter taste in the morning. Eructations are putrid. All parts of the body experience burning. Aversion to bathing is well marked. Despite their disregard for hygiene, they continue to hold the belief that they possess superhuman abilities. These individuals are very selfish.
Some homoeomother tinctures (Q) are useful for foul breath.
You should not take mother tincture directly as it can cause a burning sensation. Instead, mix 10 drops in a half glass of water and either take it internally or gargle with it.
1) Cinnamon Q: This mother tincture can be used for gragling after diluting with water. Also useful for bleeding from gums.
2) Eucalyptus Q: Mix this tincture with water and use it as a mouthwash. Internal use of this medicine can remove mucus from the respiratory tract. Also useful for cold and coryza.
3) Zingiber Q: This medicine is effective in treating bad breath that is linked to gastric complaints. This medicine can improve digestion. Also used for gargling.
4) Rhus glabra Q: Gargling with this tincture is highly beneficial for ulcerative lesions in the mouth, such as aphthous ulcers. Internal use of this tincture can reduce the unpleasant smell of stool and flatus.
5) Oleum caryophyllum Q: Gargling with this tincture can help alleviate toothaches. Due to its fregrant quality, it's very useful to reduce unpleasant breath.
6) Balsamum peru Q: This medicine can remove the mucus from the respiratory tract; hence, it is very useful in chronic bronchitis and lung abscesses. Gargling this tincture can heal oral ulcers and emit a pleasant scent from the mouth.
7) Menthol Q: This is a primary ingredient in tonics and syrups. Gargling of this tincture reduces unpleasant breath.
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