These simple home remedies shall help you out!
- Wash and coat the sore for a few seconds with milk of magnesia.
- Taking zinc supplements are beneficial.
- Take a little earwax from your ear and apply it to the sore. Its antiseptic value helps.
- Rinse the mouth with a strong tea made of goldenseal root.
- Coffee, spices, citrus fruit, nuts high in the amino acid arginine (especially walnuts), chocolate, and strawberries irritate sores/cuts.
- Eat yogurt daily.
- Avoid coffee, spicy & salty foods , and citrus fruits.
- Alum is an antiseptic and pain reliever that can prevent the infection from getting worse.
- Rinse your mouth with a mixture of one tbsp of hydrogen peroxide in eight ounces of water.
- Apply a wet black tea bag to the ulcer.
- A thin paste of baking of soda and water applied to the sore brings relief.
- Squeeze the oil from a Vitamin E capsule onto the canker sore, several times per day is helpful.
- Take 500 milligrams of vitamin C with bioflavornoids three times a day for the next three days.
answered by r k