Michaels Tooth Powder

Michaels Tooth Powder is a form of dentifrice that are agents used along with a toothbrush to clean and polish natural teeth. 

Ingredients and Benefits

Arrowroot Powder..............12 ounces

Pure arrowroot, like other pure starches, is a light, white powder (the mass feeling firm to the finger and crackling like newly fallen snow when rubbed or pressed), odourless when dry, but emitting a faint, peculiar odour when mixed with boiling water, and swelling on cooking into a perfect jelly, which can be used to make a food that is very smooth in consistency.  In the Victorian era it was used, boiled with a little flavouring added, as an easily digestible food for children and people with dietary restrictions.

Orris Root Powder.............. 4 ounces

Once important in western herbal medicine, it is now used mainly as a fixative and base note in perfumery, the most widely used fixative for potpourri. Orris is also an ingredient in many brands of gin.

Baking Powder.................... 1 ounce

Baking powder is a dry chemical leavening agent, a mixture of a carbonate or bicarbonate and a weak acid, and is used for increasing the volume and lightening the texture of baked goods. 

Licorice Root Powder......... 1 ounce

Most liquorice is used as a flavouring agent for tobacco, particularly American blend cigarettes, which liquorice gives a natural sweetness and a distinctive flavour and makes it easier to inhale the smoke by creating bronchodilators, which open up the lungs. Liquorice flavours are also used as candies or sweeteners, particularly in some European and Middle Eastern countries. Liquorice extracts have a number of medical uses, and they are also used in herbal and folk medications. Excessive consumption of liquorice (more than 2 mg/kg/day of pure glycyrrhizinic acid, a liquorice component) may result in adverse effects, and overconsumption should be suspected clinically in patients presenting with otherwise unexplained hypokalemia and muscle weakness.

Myrrh Gum Powder........... 1 ounce

Myrrh gum is commonly harvested from the species Commiphora myrrha, which is native to Yemen, Somalia, Eritrea and eastern Ethiopia. Myrrh is a common ingredient of tooth powders. Myrrh and borax in tincture can be used as a mouth-wash. A compound tincture, or horse tincture, using myrrh is used in veterinary practice for healing wounds. Meetiga, the trade-name of Arabian Myrrh, is more brittle and gummy than that of the Somalian variety and does not have the latter's white markings. In pharmacy, myrrh is used as an antiseptic in mouthwashes, gargles, and toothpastes for prevention and treatment of gum disease. Myrrh is currently used in some liniments and healing salves that may be applied to abrasions and other minor skin ailments. Myrrh has also been recommended as an analgesic for toothaches, and can be used in liniment for bruises, aches, and sprains.

Cloves, fresh pwd............... 1 ounce

Cloves are used in Indian Ayurvedic medicine, Chinese medicine, and western herbalism and dentistry where the essential oil is used as an anodyne (painkiller) for dental emergencies. Cloves are used as a carminative, to increase hydrochloric acid in the stomach and to improve peristalsis. Cloves are also said to be a natural anthelmintic. The essential oil is used in aromatherapy when stimulation and warming are needed, especially for digestive problems. Topical application over the stomach or abdomen are said to warm the digestive tract. Applied to a cavity in a decayed tooth, it also relieves toothache.

Cinnamon, fresh pwd.........1 ounce

Cinnamon has a long history of use in traditional medicine, but there is no evidence that it is useful to treat any medical condition.

Yerba Mansa Powder......... 1 ounce

The monotypic genus Anemopsis has only one species, Anemopsis californica, with the common names yerba mansa or lizard tail. Yerba mansa is used as an antimicrobial, an antibacterial, and to treat vaginal candidiasis.Yerba mansa is used to treat inflammation of the mucous membranes, swollen gums and sore throat. An infusion of roots can be taken as a diuretic to treat rheumatic diseases like gout by ridding the body of excess uric acid, which causes painful inflammation of the joints. Yerba mansa prevents the buildup of uric acid crystals in the kidneys which could cause kidney stones if left untreated. A powder of dried root can be sprinkled on infected areas to alleviate athlete's foot or diaper rash. Yerba mansa is versatile, it can be taken orally as a tea, tincture, infusion or dried in capsule form. It can be used externally for soaking inflamed or infected areas. It can be ground and used as a dusting powder. Some people in Las Cruces, New Mexico use the leaves to make a poultice to relieve muscle swelling and inflammation.

Peppermint Oil.................... 20 drops

For flavouring.

Wintergreen Oil...................10 drops

For flavouring.     

Preparation

1. Thoroughly mix all constituents 
2. Blend briefly in 1/2 cup batches and remix 

Resource

• Moore, Michael. Herb Formulas for Clinic and Home: 75 Formulas for Making Herbal Preparations ... Albuquerque, NM: Southwest School of Botanical Medicine, 1995. Print.
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