The ancient method of smoking teeth in rural areas can smoke out toothworms from the ears. Where do the bugs come from? The heir of ancient Dharma tells the inside story

Affected by the economy and knowledge, there are still many strange things in rural areas of our country. One of the more common ones is the ancient method of treating diseases. Many farmers do not go to the hospital as soon as possible after falling ill. Instead, look for local gods and witches, or look around for folk remedies and folk remedies. The amazing thing is that often folk remedies and folk remedies can indeed cure diseases.

"Smoking teeth" is one of the ancient methods to treat toothache. Recently, a video has been circulated on the Internet. The content of the video is that an old man in Anhui used the method of smoking teeth to treat a little boy's toothache.

I saw the old man turn the bowl of "smoking teeth" upside down on the fire to heat it. During the heating period, the old man took out a cloth snare sewn from cloth and put it on the little boy's ear. Obviously this was to prevent the hot bowl from scalding the boy's ears. After the bowl was heated, the old man placed the bowl on the little boy's ear and kept patting the little boy's ear with his other hand. The magical scene appeared when the old man took the bowl away from the little boy's ear, and saw a few white "worms" on the bottom of the bowl. From then on, the work of smoking the teeth was completed.

We all know that although human tooth decay is also called "worms", tooth decay actually has nothing to do with bugs. It is just that some people do not pay attention to oral hygiene and do not pay attention to cleaning up the food residue in the mouth. These residues become food for the cariogenic bacteria in the oral cavity. When the cariogenic bacteria use these foods, they will produce a large amount of acidic substances. The acidic substances will cause the calcium ions in the teeth to "demineralize". Over time, the tooth surface will The organic matter will be dented, and the dents will become larger and larger, eventually turning into visible cavities.

From the perspective of the formation principle of "wormy teeth", it must be unreasonable to smoke out the worms when treating toothache. A psychological comfort for the healer.

There are two reasons here:

1. Although there is an Eustachian tube connecting the human ear with the nasal cavity and oral cavity, the middle ear is connected with the nasopharynx, and the outer ear is connected with the nasopharynx. There is also an eardrum between the eardrum and the middle ear. Even if the bug is really smoked out from the tooth, it cannot get out of the ear.

2. The cause of tooth decay is bacteria, not bugs, so no matter how you smoke, bugs should not be smoked out.

But there were indeed bugs in the old man’s bowl, and many netizens also shared their personal experiences of tooth bugs, and there were indeed white “bugs” in them.

Some netizens said, "The insects are either fake, or they will come out, but I don't know what kind of insects they are. I tried it myself and made it myself. There is no trick. I heated the bottom of the bowl and applied sesame oil." If you put it on your ears for a while, white bugs will appear.

" Some netizens said, "This is true. I saw it with my own eyes when I was a child. It was more than 40 years ago. The process is to put some soybean oil in the bowl. , then use the smoke of burning onion seeds to bake it in a bowl, and then put it on the ear of the toothache side. After a while, you will find some small squirming white insects on the oil in the bowl.

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Where did this bug come from? Regarding this issue, the author specifically consulted the old people who know how to smoke teeth in the village. According to the old people, what they burned was not an empty bowl. Before smoking teeth, they need to grease the bottom of the bowl with oil, then sprinkle some green onion seeds or leek seeds, and use oil to cook the teeth. Rapeseed sticks to the bottom of the bowl and is burned to a certain extent and then clasped on the ear. Bugs come from these rapeseeds. After the rapeseed is roasted and then cooled, the germ inside the seed will be exposed. People who don’t know why will see the white The germs will be mistaken for bugs.

As for why there is no pain after smoking out the "bugs", the author speculates that on the one hand, it is because the smoking method requires high temperature, which helps stimulate blood circulation and helps the recovery of teeth.

On the other hand, there is the psychological effect. Many pains are psychological cues. When you see white "worms", you think you are really fumigating the bugs, and the pain disappears under the strong psychological cues.

Although "smoking toothworm" is pseudoscience and a deception, many people have personally experienced that it is effective. Friends who have the opportunity and conditions can experience it for themselves.

However, the author still recommends that friends with dental problems should go to the hospital for systematic treatment. After all, this kind of blindness can only be cured for a while.

Previously, there were media reports that someone treated people with toothache in the name of ancestral tooth smoke, but was found to be illegally practicing medicine.

An old woman treats people with toothache. She puts hot tiles into a basin, then adds the so-called ancestral secret recipe, and then uses an aluminum mouthpiece to draw out the smoke. The child held the aluminum mouth in his mouth. After a while, he saw some white substances that looked like bugs inside the aluminum mouth.

After expert identification, these white substances were either made by the old woman's hands or feet, or food residue in the child's mouth, and were not bugs at all.

The reporter also contacted the local law enforcement department to investigate the old woman.