Useful! Traditional Chinese medicine can also effectively treat gout.

Gout is a kind of disease with arthralgia syndrome in traditional Chinese medicine, which is often manifested as local joint swelling and heat pain. The common treatment method of western medicine is to apply different drugs in stages.

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as indomethacin, ibuprofen, glucocorticoid, colchicine, etc., are used in acute attack to effectively relieve inflammation and pain and relieve patients' acute pain.

Traditional Chinese medicine also distinguishes different conditions of diseases, and the type of damp-heat blocking arthralgia pays attention to clearing away heat and dampness. Commonly used prescriptions are Dachaihu Decoction and Longdan Xiegan Decoction.

Dachaihu Decoction is mainly used to treat ShaoYangyang. The prescription takes Bupleurum as the main medicine and consists of Bupleurum, Scutellaria baicalensis, Pinellia ternata, rhubarb, immature bitter orange, white peony root, ginger and jujube. It has the effects of relieving shaoyang and purging heat. Clinically, it is often used to treat acute pancreatitis, acute cholecystitis, cholelithiasis, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer.

Longdan Xiegan Decoction consists of Gardenia, Scutellariae Radix, Bupleuri Radix, Radix Gentianae, Radix Rehmanniae, Semen Plantaginis, Alismatis Rhizoma, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Glycyrrhrizae Radix and Akebiae Radix. Clinically, it is mostly used for excessive blood due to yin deficiency and yang deficiency, trichomonal vaginitis, pruritus vulvae, leukorrhagia, etc. , all have a certain curative effect.

In addition, according to the degree of personal illness, specific clinical prescriptions need to be added or subtracted by professional doctors. If necessary, it can also be treated with traditional Chinese medicine for external use, and mirabilite or borneol can be ground and applied externally. Brucea javanica can also be ground into powder and applied with vinegar to relieve pain.

Traditional Chinese medicine can treat both the symptoms and root causes by conditioning people's bodies. For gout, patients should be treated in time and use traditional Chinese medicine to effectively control symptoms.

If the patient has tophus or other symptoms, some physical therapy methods commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine can also be used to relieve the pain, such as drug soaking, acupuncture and local joint acupuncture.

The application of external application of traditional Chinese medicine to treat gout is mainly to make it into ointment or paste by cold compress and cold light of traditional Chinese medicine, and then apply it to the swollen joint surface, which can play a role in reducing swelling and relieving pain.

Choose different drugs according to different symptoms. For patients with damp-heat and blood stasis, drugs for clearing heat and promoting diuresis should be mainly selected. For patients with wind-cold-dampness arthralgia, it is mainly to relieve local pain symptoms, and then consider promoting purine metabolism in the body.

Patients must maintain an optimistic attitude in the treatment and prevention of gout, and don't let the condition worsen, otherwise it will only bring deeper consequences. Take medicine according to the doctor's advice, reduce the high purine diet, drink more water, promote uric acid excretion, and adhere to every level of disease prevention and control.