In ancient times, the method of brushing teeth:
Wipe your teeth with your fingers.
Finger rubbing has a long history, which appeared in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. In the ancient Dunhuang frescoes, there is an icon of Lao Du Cha Dou. In the picture, the ordained person holds a long-necked mouthwash bottle in his left hand and wipes his front teeth with his right index finger, vividly depicting the finger wiping method.
The cloth wipes the teeth.
In fact, a cloth wipe is an evolutionary version of finger wipe, that is, a small cloth is wrapped around your finger to scrub your teeth. This small piece of cloth also has a special name-tooth towel. It is recorded in the inscription "Famen Temple Property Account Monument" unearthed in the underground palace of Famen Temple: the tooth cleaning cloth 100, and the tooth cleaning cloth in the room is offered to the Buddha by the royal family.
Chew wood in the morning
After the introduction of Indian Buddhism, it was popular to wipe teeth with twigs and twigs. "Chewing wood in the morning" means wiping your teeth with plant branches. It is recorded in the biography of the South China Sea returning to the internal law
Chew your teeth and scrape your tongue every day, and make order a law.
2. Toothpowder and toothpaste:
Toothpaste
This name is my YY. In fact, it is to boil all kinds of medicinal materials into paste and brush them with all kinds of instruments mentioned above. Liu Jun of Nanliang wrote in Hugh, the tablet tongue of Xiyuehua Mountain Peak:
Gleditsia sinensis and ginger, marijuana and rehmannia glutinosa in western countries.
Mule, jujube, lotus, Sophora japonica and asarum lotus leaf should be equal.
Green salt burning is the same as calcination, and it will be better in the future.
Clean your teeth and blacken your temples. Who knows if there are fairy tales?
In the vernacular, take pig's teeth, Gleditsia sinensis, ginger, kenaf, Rehmannia glutinosa, Mulv, jujube lotus and Sophora japonica, then take the same amount of asarum and lotus leaf, burn them together with the same amount of green salt, grind them into powder, decoct them, and apply the medicine to the teeth to strengthen the teeth, which can keep the hair and beard black.
Traditional Chinese medicine tooth powder
Wang Dao, a medical scientist in the Tang Dynasty, recorded "Cimicifuga prescription for brushing teeth" in "The Secret of Outer Taiwan":
Cimicifuga, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Herba Artemisiae Annuae, Asari, and Lignum Aquilariae Resinatum, each with three points, and mirabilite with six points. After grinding, the right six flavors were mashed and sieved into powder. Every time Yang Liuzhi bit his head soft and wiped his teeth with medicine, it was fragrant and smooth.
The "Chinese medicine tooth powder" recorded in this medical book can be regarded as the predecessor of modern medicine tooth powder, which is fragrant and smooth to use;
3. Hair transplant toothbrush:
Toothbrush with bone handle
1954, two bone toothbrush handles were unearthed in the tombs of Liao Dynasty (AD 959) in China, which are regarded by scholars as the earliest toothbrush objects found in the world so far, more than 1000 years ago, more than 800 years earlier than the bone-handled pig hair toothbrush made by the British in prison.
Bristles, sideburns of various animals.
The bristles of ancient toothbrushes are: animal sideburns and ponytails.
By the Southern Song Dynasty, there were already shops specializing in making and selling toothbrushes. According to the "health" records:
Wear a ponytail and brush your teeth.
At this time, the toothbrush is made of bone, horn, bamboo, wood and other materials, with two rows of holes drilled in the head and ponytails planted on it, which is very close to the modern toothbrush.