Therapy for molar trauma with traditional Chinese medicine

Traditional acupuncture for toothache can handle toothache of only inflammatory type. Hegu (LI4) and Zusanli (ST36) as points of anesthesia can relief the pain only if continuously stimulated at high frequency. In view of the development of new dental technology, it becomes even more important to retain the injured teeth. We propose a Chinese medical method to assist the treatment of tooth trauma. The auriculotherapy points in the earlobe should have a much more positive therapeutic effects on toothache. Furthermore, we explain a mysterious sentence about acupoints for treatment of toothache from the book of Qianjin Yi Fang (千金翼方) by Sun Simiao (孫思邈). A formula based upon Lonicera and Forsythia is proposed to relieve the inflammatory.