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Bad breath is very fixable, but the first challenge is to know is if it's a problem in the first place because we are not good at telling how our own breath smells! Feedback is needed from someone who will not hide from telling the truth, this will usually be a friend or partner but sometimes it falls to the health practitioner to be the one to break the news. The best method to tell for sure is to ask the person to count out loud to 10 while the one doing the checking leans in for a good sniff. If it really is a regular problem, then one of the following steps will work.
Dental hygiene can obviously be a major cause of bad-breath and, if it hasn't previously been ruled out, the first step is to visit with a dentist to make sure that there isn't a tooth or gum disease that is causing the problem, Further to that, studies have shown that a major cause for bad breath are undesirable bacteria that take up permanent residence in the mouth and throat. There are many commercial products for bad breath that work by disinfecting these bacteria but they all carry the major side-effect of killing off the good bugs too! if someone wants to go a lot further than those short-lived solutions then the following formula of herbs, whilst more challenging to take, will have a much deeper and lasting effect.
In terms of bad breath, the mouth wash is not something a person would do for fun, but it is very fast acting so the breath will usually start improving from the first day of starting treatment. Take approximately 2-3 mls (about 40-60 drops) of the herbal mouth wash and dilute with about a tsp of water. The medicine needs to briefly coat the mouth and the back of the throat, so it must be swished and swilled before either spiting or swallowing. Spit if you are otherwise well and would just rather rinse them out. Swallow the mixture if you have any kind of immune system trouble or weakness because the Echinacea, Myrrh and Licorice have potent internal effects if you ingest them. Many people have been successfully treated with this formula. Many had visibly infected gums and other dental problems. So long as the treatment was used regularly and for long enough e.g. at least once a day for at least a month, it has always been seen to improve the health of the whole mouth, including cases where tooth extractions were no longer required.
Once the bad bugs are evicted, a healthy natural bacterial flora will eventually re-establish itself however, this process can be greatly sped up by using a special mouth probiotic. As it happens, it was a fellow New Zealander, a research scientist, that pioneered using probiotic bacteria for bad breath and oral health. You can learn more about this by entering the name Blis lozenges into your search engine, and their products are readily available around the world.
How good vs. bad bugs can affect our health in all kinds of ways has been the subject of an enormous amount of research in recent years. If you have problems with fequent bloating or other digestive disturbance, you might need to consider the possibility that there are problems with bad bugs further down your digestive tract too, more here
The other main cause of bad breath besides dental issues and bad bugs in the mouth is poor digestion of food in the stomach with and excess fermentation. If you often get symptoms of indigestion, such as bloating, belching or reflux, then this could be the main issue. There are four common reasons for poor digestion
In practical terms, if this is something you need to pay attention to, you should aim to have proteins with a salad rather than with starchy carbs and then when you do have a meal of rice, pasta, bread etc. to have vegetables with it rather than any significant amount of protein. If you or someone you know has bad breath and, at the same time it is apparent that they cannot taste or smell their food well, then consider the possibility that there is a deficiency in zinc. In such cases a course of at least 15 mgs of elemental zinc per day, preferably combined with a little magnesium and vitamin B6 which is quite usual to see in a Zinc product, and taken for at least 2 months will fix the problem. In the case of excess digestive 'fire' the person will be getting what is typically described as 'acid-reflux' in one form or another - bad breath is literally rising up from their gut. This common problem usually responds extremely well to the treatment described in detail here At least as common as too much 'fire' is too little, especially as we age. The tell-tale symptom of this is the food sitting heavy in the stomach. Rather than a rising up of acidity there is a 'dragging-down' indigestion. If this is the root-cause of indigestion and bad-breath, then the great digestive tonic Gentian will improve matters. It is usually combined with Ginger extract; detailed instructions on how to use it are found here
Please understand that I cannot personally advise you without seeing you in my clinic. |
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