The Answer To Your Dental Problems – Maybe?
George Ohsawa
You may well know that traditional people clean their teeth with a pointed stick and either salt granules, or ash?
What may have escaped you is that George Ohsawa the founder of modern day macrobiotics created a toothpaste made from roasted aubergine and sea salt. He called this ‘Dentie’.
It’s been many years since I brushed my teeth with Dentie. It came then as a paste like substance in a tube and was black. Although it cleaned the teeth adequately it always seemed impossible to clean the sink from the inky soot afterwards.
Imagine my astonishment this week when Irem announced that she had prepared us Dentie from a recipe that she found in one of my old books. Her’s looks a little like coffee grounds, and is dark brown in colour. She roasted the aubergines in our wood burner and toasted the sea salt in a skillet. The result is a little more granular than the commercially available product but just as efficient.
To make Dentie:
Bake an aubergine, especially the cap portion until it becomes completely black, [this may take some hours]. Crush into powder and mix well with 30% – 50% roasted sea salt. Use daily as tooth powder. You van also apply it to any bleeding wounds – even on a wet tissue to the nasal passages in the case of nose bleed.
August 16th, 2006 at 6:01 pm
Is there a specific advantage to this? Does this recipe work better than typically commercially available stuff? Or do you use it because it’s “natural”?
August 19th, 2006 at 4:07 pm
Hello,
I see little purpose in using anything simply because it’s natural. I use it because it works. It’s now several months since I’ve been using ‘Dentie’. My teeth feel cleaner, (but don’t look any whiter). There is less build up of plaque, and calcified material, my gums are in better condition.
You’re right of course to remark that it’s natural, and that’s a bonus too!
August 29th, 2006 at 8:21 pm
[...] Conventional doctors will naturally assert that the Kushi were in fact ‘quacks’, and that anyone following their prescriptions needed their bumps read. But that’s far too simple, after all the statistics on health and longevity for physicians and surgeons make very discomforting reading. Maybe this is where the problem rests, had not the Kushis become a de-facto physicians? George Ohsawa, who is generally attributed as creating the term ‘macrobiotic’ and bringing Taoist Medicine to the West, believed that once a person was able to appreciate the ‘Oneness’ that is common to all life then they could eat anything without fear of losing their health. [...]