2005-12-01

18 Tricks to Teach Your Body

18 Tricks to Teach Your Body: "Cure your toothache without opening your mouth":

"Just rub ice on the back of your hand, on the V-shaped webbed area between your thumb and index finger. A Canadian study found that this technique reduces toothache pain by as much as 50 percent compared with using no ice. The nerve pathways at the base of that V stimulate an area of the brain that blocks pain signals from the face and hands."

Where was this website last March when I needed it?! There's plenty of other neat-sounding advice in the article, like draining your sinuses with just your tongue and a pressure point between your eyebrows.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I've heard that advice about the index-thumb wedge before for use on headaches, and let me tell you it doesn't work one damn bit!
-Laura