Preventing Tooth Decay with Your Tongue by Dr. Wu Tao-Wei While reading through a book on early American poetry, I found this one taken from a tombstone epitaph: Here lies the body of Mary Ann Lowder, She burst while drinking a Seidletz powder. Called from this world to her heavenly rest, She should have waited till it effervesced. I offer this not as a humorous anecdote but as a sober warning. Sometimes the simplest remedies have hidden dangers that should not be ignored. That poor Mary tried to relieve her indigestion with a calcium carbonate tonic, is both common and not at all dangerous. But she broke the rules of the simple remedy by drinking it before giving it time for the excess carbon dioxide to bubble off. The reaction of calcium carbonate and stomach acids can be observed simply by dropping a teaspoon full of baking soda into a half a glass of vinegar. Better to do this experiment in the kitchen sink since the foaming action will spill out all over the place. Calcium carbonate (common baking soda) and stomach acids produce a lot of gas. And too much baking soda can be lethal. So much for the warning. Now back to your teeth. If you are an average American over fifty years old, then half of your teeth are already gone from fifty years of eating from the troughs of the Jewish junk food industry. But my advice is still good for the teeth that you have remaining. And if you still have all of your teeth, then please pay attention to this simple remedy and prevention method. The bacteria that cause tooth decay do so by excreting acids. These acids are what dissolve the teeth with little caries that provide free housing for millions more bacteria that excrete more acids which dissolves more of the tooth structure. And as I mentioned in a previous article, these bacteria are killed instantly if you gargle with a solution of baking soda and water with a pinch of ordinary table salt thrown in for extra punch. The American dentists and pharmaceutical manufacturers know this, but they never mention it because they want you to buy their gargles from bottles and to visit their clinics for dental work. Now this calcium carbonate of the baking soda is very alkaline and will neutralize any kind of acid. When it is applied to your teeth, it destroys the acidic environment that the tooth decay bacteria like and it kills them. In addition, this calcium carbonate creates the alkaline pH that keeps the teeth healthy. You can apply it with a simple gargle solution or with your tongue. Now, the tongue is a much-ignored organ. Most people use it for eating and tasting and after a meal they use a tooth brush. But the tongue, itself, is a tooth brush. God thought of everything when He made every creature. He even provided us with built-in tooth brushes. So, let me ask you if your tongue is working properly or has it become un-coordinated from lack of use? Try this: Make a grand tour of your teeth using your tongue to touch the edge of your gums all the way around on the inside and outside surfaces of your teeth. Can you do it? Or is your tongue becoming unco-ordinated and weak from lack of exercise? After all, your tongue has muscles in it and if it isn't exercised then, like any muscle structure, it weakens. You want to be able to stretch your tongue so that it is able to reach every nook and cranny around your teeth and all the way into the inner edges of your lips and cheeks at the gum line. Stretch your tongue all the way into the gum and cheek line and maybe you will feel a slimy home for bacteria that you didn't know was there and which your tooth brush and gargle didn't touch. This is one of the skills that the tongue has built into your genetics. But modern man seems to have lost touch with some of his more useful talents. Once you are able to explore your entire mouth and gums and inner cheek linings with your tongue -- reaching deep into every hiding place around your teeth where bacteria can thrive -- then you can apply the medicine. Keep in mind poor Mary Lowder and be careful about swallowing too much powder. But take about the amount of baking soda that would fill the volume of a green pea, put this in your mouth and use your tongue to smear this baking soda and saliva paste all around the teeth and gums and reach it into the farthest corners of the gums and around the corners of the back molars. And there you have it. You now have the method for keeping your teeth healthy. You can carry a supply of baking soda in an ordinary child proof pill bottle wherever you go. Use it whenever and wherever you like. And a pea's volume of calcium carbonate cannot hurt you even if you swallow all of it. Spit it out or swallow it, depending upon how you feel. It will neutralize all the acid in your mouth and kill the decay bacteria on contact. And if your stomach hurts from eatting Jewish junk foods containing sugar and white flour, then a little bicarbonate of soda will sooth the pain and neutralize the acids. The Western dentists know this. But they don't make money unless you get cavities so they say nothing. Remember, only a pea's worth is enough to save your teeth and push back any gingivitis. More is not better. A pea's worth is enough to do the job of healing Whoops! I mentioned the word that the Western physicians never use -- healing. I certainly hope that they do not sue me for doing what they are unable to do. -------------------------------------------------------- Second Publication Rights Granted as long as the following is credited: First Published in the Chinese Swaztika Newsletter, for free subscription send blank eMail to: