To stop the pain immediately, you would need to take an analgesic or a painkiller. There are no effective home remedies to kill pain that are as effective as the concentrated amounts available in over the counter medicine. After dulling the pain, you need to treat the wound also. Remember that home remedies are always an addition to regular modern medicine and most of the home remedies that are used are effective because of an active ingredient. This active ingredient’s concentration is nowhere close to the concentrations used in regular medicine and therefore, will not be effective as quick fixes. Think of home remedies as a longer-term measure.
You need to inspect the condition of your fingernail and check for any detachment from the nail bed. If your nail has somehow been detached from the nail bed, then you will have to lose the nail. This procedure will have to be done at a doctor’s office and should never be attempted at home. If your nail has not been detached, then there is a possibility of bruising under the nail at the nail bed. This condition will take some time to remedy and only requires that you keep the nail raised above the level of your heart to drain the blood in the bruise back into the vessels. In some odd instances, you may have to go to a doctor and the doctor will drill a hole into the nail to drain the blood from under the nail. Ideally, a nail trauma that causes you extreme pain for long periods of time requires that you visit the doctor; otherwise the tissue itself can become necrotic and eject the nail from the finger.
After all inspections on the nail have been done, treat the area with an antiseptic, so that no infectious pathogen moves in to the surrounding tissues of the nail. A good antiseptic treatment is the use of tea tree oil that will kill most bacteria and fungi. These are usually the first culprits that move in opportunistically when there is a break in the skin tissue. Some measures to relieve the pain include placing your injured finger in some ice-cold water. This will reduce some of the inflammation that will naturally occur after this kind of trauma. Over the course of the next few weeks, you should consciously increase the amount of ginger that you usually consume. This is because ginger is a natural anti-inflammatory agent and if combined in a tea with the herb feverfew, is almost as potent as a regular dose of painkillers.