How to treat tailbone pain at home

Pain in the coccyx is not a fatal disease, but still causes a lot of anxiety to a person, interferes with life, work, sleep, and can also be a symptom of a serious illness that a person might not have suspected. Treating the coccyx at home is a preventive procedure that helps eliminate the unpleasant consequences of a bruise, or the consequences of an operation.

Prescribed medications can relieve pain, but folk remedies do a good job of this. It should be noted that the treatment of the coccyx with folk remedies should be preferred, since it will come out cheaper and bring less harm. You can make your own at home ointments, rubbing, as well as healing decoctions, which not only reduce or completely eliminate pain, but also have a beneficial effect on the body.

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Vishnevsky ointment

A popular remedy for reducing pain and eliminating inflammation is Vishnevsky's ointment. It is necessary to soak a small cloth with it, put it on the coccyx, cover it with cellophane (food wrap), wrap it with a warm scarf or scarf and go to bed. In the morning, the pain will decrease, and after a few applications it will disappear completely. Iodine has the same effect. Before going to bed, the coccyx should be generously lubricated with iodine, let it dry, wrap the lower back in warm. You can block access to oxygen with a plastic bag.

Combined ointments

For greater effect, he makes a mixture of Vishnevsky's ointment, cottage cheese, kefir, alcohol and honey, everything is mixed in equal proportions. At night, a compress is made from this mixture.

An ointment of honey and vinegar is used for bruises. Take 2 times more honey than vinegar, mix until a homogeneous mixture is formed, apply to the damaged area. If the pain is not strong, then 6-7 applications are enough, but if it is strong, then you will have to rub homemade ointment every hour.

Other tinctures

An alcohol "cocktail" of ethyl and camphor alcohol with the addition of iodine and analgin will also help relieve pain. You need to insist it for 21 days in a cool dark place. To get the effect, 6-8 applications will be enough. The proportions of the tincture: iodine (10 ml.), Ethyl alcohol (300 ml.), Camphor alcohol (10 ml.) And analgin tablets 10 pieces. Mix everything thoroughly, the mixture must be shaken well before use.

Also, with coccyx bruises, they help well: wormwood and plantain leaf (grind into gruel and apply to a sore spot in the form of a compress); onion and radish (grate, squeeze juice from the resulting slurry, make a compress); Valerian tincture; blue clay.

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Arnica tincture (take 30 drops 3 times a day) also has an analgesic effect. It is sold in pharmacies in finished form, refers to homeopathic remedies.

A decoction of geranium leaves helps to reduce pain, and also has a restorative effect. Leaves of geranium (2 tbsp. Spoons) pour water (1 l.), Let it boil for a few minutes. With this decoction, you can take a bath or make compresses. With a little pain, you can use the components that are always at hand, for example, potatoes. It must be grated, gruel applied to the sore spot.

Hard Methods

If problems with the coccyx are not caused by mechanical damage, but by the presence of a cyst or a fistulous tract, completely different formulations are used. One of the most commonly used to relieve inflammation of the fistulous tract is a mixture of tar with oil and propolis.

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Tar has a cauterizing and degenerative effect on the fistula, while propolis is used as an antimicrobial component. Oil is used as a base.

It is easy to prepare such a composition. Tar is mixed with oil and propolis. Let the mixture brew for one hour. Apply on a well-heated surface, covering with a bandage and blocking access to oxygen (for example, with a plastic bag).

Tailbone fracture treatment

In case there is suspicion of a more serious injury than a bruise. The treatment of the coccyx is approached from the other side. In particular, regardless of the use of "folk remedies", complex medicines should be used that will avoid the development of infectious and inflammatory processes. In addition, it will not be possible to do without external painkillers. In this case, folk remedies only help speed up the healing process, and remove some of the discomfort:

• hard pain;
• Inflammation of the coccyx;
• Discomfort associated with the possibility of improper fusion.

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The most commonly used drug in this case is mumiyo, resin, comfrey.

Ointment from mumiyo

The ointment is prepared from the purchased Mumiyo extract, and mixed with vegetable oils or animal oils. The greatest effect is observed when using rose oil, which has an antiseptic effect. Such an ointment will speed up the regeneration process and relieve some of the pain.

Resin ointment

In this case, spruce resin is used, along with grated onion and vitriol. Rose oil can also be used as a base for the ointment. The use of this mixture will significantly reduce the risk of infection.

Ointment from comfrey

Mix comfrey decoction in half with beeswax (to create a thick base), apply the resulting ointment in the morning or evening, after fixing it with a bandage on the damaged area. each of them has its own medicinal properties (acceleration of regeneration, protection against infections, reduction of pain syndrome). Therefore, properly distribute all folk remedies throughout the day.