Medicinal Herbs: Thankyou to Charlie, who wrote in asking about Black Walnut as a restorative herb for tooth enamel.
Restorative Diets such as those used for cancer, arthritis, multiple sclerosis and other diseases, have proven successful in many cases, for restoring tooth enamel. Often, people have discovered that their teeth have repaired themselves whilst following a strict dietary and cleansing regime to treat eczema, psoriasis, or a life-threatening disease.
However, there are some specifics which are helpful in keeping tooth enamel healthy, and even in repairing tooth enamel. Black Walnut is one of them. Comfrey is another. Prickly Ash is another. Nettles, called ‘Stinging Nettles’ are another.
So what is it about the Black Walnut, the Juglans nigra, which gives it such a great reputation for facilitating healing, including the regrowth of tooth enamel? Louise Tenney who wrote the book ‘Today’s Herbal Health’, 1983, gives a summary of the healing attributes of the Black Walnut, in which she includes its ability to heal tooth enamel.
Valuable Minerals in Black Walnut: For a start, Black Walnut Husks and Leaves are rich in important healing minerals. Some of these, according to Louise Tenney, are organic iodine, magnesium, manganese, Vitamin B15, silica, iron, calcium, potassium and phosphorous.
Iodine, especially, is a natural anti-bacterial, which would make Black Walnut helpful for the teeth. Iodine helps to keep harmful germs in the mouth at bay. So the use of Black Walnut and other herbs which have a high organic iodine content, will help to kill off those germs which eat away at the teeth. In this sense, Black Walnut would be very helpful for the restoration of the tooth enamel.
Silica is another important mineral which helps to keep harmful germs at bay, as well as having an important function in building strong teeth, bones, hair and nails. Silica is found in the Black Walnut husks and leaves, as well as in Comfrey, Stinging Nettles, and Prickly Ash. Comfrey is one of the richest sources of silica, which is a good enough reason to have the plant brought back for the general public to use again: At present, many countries have banned comfrey because the drug companies have convinced governments that it can cause cancer and should be banned. But this is really so that they have the monopoly on all the healing ingredients contained in comfrey. People have been using comfrey as a healing herb TO GOOD EFFECT for thousands of years. Stinging nettles are another rich source of silica, but commercial herbicides and people’s desire to control our road-side verges have almost put this vauluable healing plant into extinction.
Avoid Chemcials including Food Additives: Of course, it is not enough to simply use Black Walnut tincture, or another iodine product, on a daily basis. For Black Walnut tincture to be effective on the teeth, you would need to have a nutritious diet, with plenty of protein, green vegetables, and plenty of raw salad material to keep the teeth clean and the saliva alkaline. The same goes for using Comfrey in the diet, or Nettles, or Prickly Ash rubbed onto the gums and teeth – You need to be following a sound and healthy diet, rich in green vegetables both raw and cooked, with adequate protein, and little or no sugary foods, for the teeth to restore themselves. You also need to avoid any harmful chemicals such as those food additives which are put into all sorts of packaged food these days. Even breads contain preservative, which are very bad for the teeth as well as the general physical, mental and emotional states of well-being.
Cleansing With Castor Oil: Periods of cleansing, where raw foods are eaten for a day, or several days, depending on the advice of your health practitioner, can be helpful in removing toxins from the body. Ridding the body of toxic chemicals, and avoiding contact with chemicals, can help the general health as well as the health of the teeth. Jacqui Davison was following the cancer-cure outlined by Dr Max Gerson, who cured many people of cancer during his life-time. Castor Oil was one of the most important ingredients of his cancer cure. Dr Gerson’s diet for reversing cancer also healed the tooth enamel on Jacqui’s teeth. However, it must be remembered that Jacqui followed this diet with its rigorous cleansing procedures, for almost a year before she realized that her teeth had repaired themselves. Healing of the teeth takes as long as it takes to heal an invasive cancer, and it requires the same amount of vigilant effort.
Thank you Merrilyn for taking the time to answer my queries. I really appreciate it.
From what I’ve read in this post, an alkaline based, silica rich diet will help to restore the tooth enamel.Thing is, patience is key.
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Kind Regards,
Charlie
Cheers Charlie. Hope you have a great Christmas or Hanukkah.
Kind Regards,
Merrilyn.
Thanks for this selection of options to consider in my own program for my teeth which need some concentration. I had a truck accident 35 years ago in which I lost a front tooth and badly chipped a couple. I’m 59 years old now and I suppose going through a fine-tuning of my diet and lifestyle so am in the process of researching options for the first time in my life about non-surgical tooth restoration. I’m vegetarian now for 40 years, vegan for 24 years and 80% raw foods for 7 years. I do grow Comfrey in my garden now for decades and love its healing properties. Another plant which I love is the hollyhock of which I use the flowers and fresh gummy seed pods before they turn hard. I’ve just purchased some Black Walnut Hull tincture, some Horsetail for silica. I have access to some Stinging Nettle plants which I hope to transplant this spring.
Great letter Douglas. Thankyou – lots of good info for readers on healing herbs.
Comfrey is so wonderful as a healer of wounds, bones, and as a tonic to boost the health, isn’t it?
And Hollyhock – I used to grow these when my children were little. I used the hollyhock flowers for treating flu and bronchial complaints, in combination with a few honeysuckle flowers. Just three blossoms of each, or two leaves of the Hollyhock with two or three honeysuckle flowers, in a pint of boiling water, to make a tea, which I served in half cupfuls each half an hour, until the patient showed signs of improving. It worked well to bring down a fever and to relieve coughs and colds. It also is a great healer, like Comfrey.
Interesting that you use the gummy seed pods of the Hollyhock. How do you use these? How many? In how much water? And what complaints have you found this good for? Maybe for the gums and teeth?
I have just been given some stinging nettle, which I have not had for years. Stinging nettle and comfrey are marvellous for their silica content, as you mention. Hollyhock, too, is high in silica, and has mucilage which aids healing.
For the sake of readers – Silica is important in the diet for building and maintaining strong and healthy teeth, nails, bones and hair.
Thanks again. Look forward to hearing how you use the pods of the Hollyhock.
Kind Regards,
Merrilyn
PS Douglas has replied in an email which hasn’t shown up here for readers to read for themselves. Douglas’ letter tells a little more about how he uses Hollyhock seed heads, and his experience of Comfrey as a healer of bones and tendons. He says that he uses the Hollyhock seed heads as a tasty nibble. He collects them before they have matured and set their seed. His 11 year old son and his friends apparently really enjoy the Hollyhock seed heads. I am putting up a new post today, entitled: Natural Sources of Silica For Bones Teeth and Hair, and will include the reported experience of Douglas on the matter of Comfrey as a healer, and how he uses the Hollyhock seed heads.
CAUTION: I would be cautious about giving Hollyhock seed heads to young children to eat.
Hollyhock is not poisonous, but too much of anything is a bad thing. You can die from eating too many carrots for too long, if naught else is eaten. The Hollyhock is a mild diuretic and helps to cleanse the blood and to settle inflamed mucous membranes. Too much of it could cause irritation of the bladder, since it encourages urination. Too much of it could also actually cause the very things which it cures, if taken to excess.
Thankyou for your 2nd letter Douglas. Unfortunately, this has not been sent as a comment but as an email which only shows up for me, and not for readers. Is it OK if I quote your letter on how you have used Comfrey and Hollyhock, etc? Alternatively, if you wanted to, you could send the email in as a comment for people to read.
Regards,
Merrilyn