Gout is a common and complex form of arthritis that can affect anyone. It's characterized by sudden, severe attacks of pain, swelling, redness and tenderness in the joints, often the joint at the base of the big toe.
An attack of gout can occur suddenly, often waking you up in the middle of the night with the sensation that your big toe is on fire. The affected joint is hot, swollen and so tender that even the weight of the sheet on it may seem intolerable.
Gout symptoms may come and go, but there are ways to manage symptoms and prevent flares.
The following traditional Chinese medicine have significant effect on gout:
Mountain mushroom
Efficacy: clearing away heat and detoxifying, eliminating phlegm and dispersing.
This product contains colchicine ingredients, which can effectively relieve gout attacks and is used in acute gout attacks.
It should be noted that a large number of long-term administration can cause gastrointestinal reactions, polyneuritis and leukopenia.
Taboo: The weak body is used with caution.
Pueraria
Efficacy: release muscles, fever, rash, thirst, and diarrhea.
Pueraria radix contains puerarin, and modern research has found that puerarin can act on immune cells, secretion of inflammatory cells, and expression of adhesion factors. Experimental studies have also demonstrated that Pueraria lobata extract can relieve joint swelling and reduce blood uric acid levels in rats with acute gouty arthritis.
Rhubarb
Efficacy: clearing heat and purging fire, venting phlegm and detoxification, cooling blood and detoxification, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain.
Rhubarb can promote blood circulation, reduce swelling and relieve pain. In the acute stage of gout, the joints appear red, swollen, hot, painful and restricted in activity, and the pain is severe. According to the principle of treating the target according to the emergency, it should be clearing heat and detoxifying, reducing swelling and relieving pain first.
Rhubarb can inhibit the inflammation of joints during the onset of gout, and can also inhibit the activity of xanthine oxidase and affect the formation of uric acid, thereby reducing the level of blood uric acid.
Rhubarb can clear away heat and detoxify, and use it to vent its laxative effect to relieve heat.
Rhubarb has a good effect of promoting blood circulation, which can not only lower blood stasis but also clear heat, in order to achieve the function of promoting blood circulation, reducing swelling and relieving pain.
Prevention of gout recurrence is the key to the gout relief period.
The main source of recurrence of gout is hyperuricemia, which is the category of "blood poison" and "turbidity" that Chinese medicine calls. Therefore, in the gout remission period, even if the patient has no obvious symptoms and signs, it is necessary to use the cold blood and detoxification, phlegm and turbidity, and clean the stomach and stomach. Rhubarb can play the role of clearing heat, venting turbidity, regulating blood and smoothing air.
As the Jin Dynasty Ge Hong said: "If you want to live forever, the intestines are always clear, if you want to die, there is no intestine in the intestines." That is to use the smooth stool to remove toxins from the body to prolong the disease.
For patients who consume too much food, rhubarb can clear the body in time to reduce blood uric acid levels and prevent gout recurrence.
Bì xiǎn
Efficacy: Lixue hurricane, Shu Jing Tongluo.
This product contains a variety of saponins such as diosgenin, which has anti-inflammatory effects, can increase the excretion of uric acid, and lower the level of blood uric acid.
Tuckahoe
Efficacy: swelling and detoxification, phlegm and phlegm.
Modern research has proven that earthworms have anti-inflammatory and immune-modulating effects, can promote the excretion of uric acid, and reduce blood uric acid levels.
Taboo: liver and kidney yin deficiency are cautious.
Mainly used for rheumatism and pain, limb numbness, tendons and veins, unfavorable flexion and extension, osteophytes and throat.
Clematis contains pulsatilla and saponins for gout relief, which can increase uric acid excretion and lower blood uric acid levels.
Taboo: This product is scattered away, long-term service is easy to hurt righteousness, qi and blood is weak, the table is empty and sweat-free, no wind and cold dampness and pregnant women are cautious.
Huanren
Efficacy: Lishui soaked, spleen and diarrhea, in addition to phlegm, drainage, detoxification and dispersal.
Modern studies have shown that Coix seed extract can significantly reduce serum uric acid levels in hyperuricemia mice.
Contraindications: Deficiency of cold constitution is not suitable for long-term use, pregnant women and menstruating women should avoid eating.
Money grass
Efficacy: Lishui Tonglin, clearing away heat and detoxification, dilated and swollen.
Modern research has found that Lysimachia chinensis extract can reduce serum uric acid levels in hyperuricemia mice and is suitable for patients with gout with kidney stones.
Taboo: Anyone who has yin and spleen and diarrhea should not take it.
Psyllium (grass)
Efficacy: Lishui Tonglin, seepage and turbidity, diarrhea, liver and eyesight, clearing heat and phlegm.
Psyllium contains adenine and succinic acid, which can inhibit chymase, so that hypoxanthine and jaundice can not be converted into uric acid, which can rapidly reduce the concentration of blood uric acid, thereby inhibiting the formation of kidney stones and tophi.
Taboo: Kidney deficiency is not allowed.
Plantain has always been a commonly used drug for diuresis and stone discharge, which can promote uric acid excretion, inhibit and eliminate urate crystals, and can be used as one of the measures to help treat gout.
Long-term use of plantain may cause dizziness and palpitations due to potassium excretion.
Endive
Efficacy: clearing the liver and gallbladder, stomach and digestion, diuretic swelling.
Mainly used for damp heat jaundice, edema and less urine.
Chicory is native to Europe and has been grown in China for the sake of ethnic minorities. It is contained in the Xinjiang Handbook of Chinese Herbal Medicine and is listed as a heat-clearing and dampening drug. The 95th edition of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia records that it has heat and dampness. The effect of strengthening the spleen and detoxification.
The effective components in chicory can significantly reduce the increase of uric acid and blood sugar caused by hyperglycemia, and can comprehensively regulate the interaction disorder of lipid, sugar and uric acid.
In 2003, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine conducted a mechanism study on chicory to prevent gout. Animal model experiments showed that chicory had a significant effect on blood uric acid in high-sugar and high-fat model animals, and was effective against gout populations with high sugar and high fat.
The results of mechanistic studies showed that chicory had no significant effect on the uric acid clearance rate of the kidney (ie, renal excretion of uric acid), but it could inhibit the activity of enzymes related to uric acid synthesis in the liver and increase serum activity.
That is to say, the acid-reducing mechanism of chicory and allopurinol is similar, which inhibits the synthesis of uric acid in the liver.
Studies have confirmed that chicory has a clear lipid-lowering effect. In addition to the enzymes directly acting on the production of uric acid, the mechanism of acid reduction may also have a certain correlation with its lipid-lowering effect.
Need to be reminded that although chicory has the effect of reducing uric acid, it has a certain impact on the reproductive system. Modern pharmacological experiments confirmed that chicory whole grass has 80% abortion activity; at the same time, chicory's total ethanol extract has a 50% contraceptive rate, which can effectively reduce the implantation rate of the corpus luteum and show contraceptive activity.
Therefore, it can be concluded that chicory does have an acid-lowering effect, but only for gout people with high sugar and high fat. The acid-reducing mechanism of chicory is the same as that of allopurinol, so it is not suitable for gout people with uric acid excretion disorder (80%~90% of gout patients have uric acid excretion disorder).
In addition, because of the contraceptive activity of chicory, it is necessary to be cautious when using gout patients who have not given birth or want to have a second child.
Loofah
Efficacy: Huoxuetongluo, phlegm and detoxification, diuresis and swelling.
It is mainly used for breast-passing, as well as the effect of clearing away heat and swelling, which can increase the amount of urine and help the excretion of uric acid.
It can help to alleviate the abnormal uric acid metabolism in the early stage and prevent the recurrence of gout.
Purslane
Purslane is cold, sweet and sour, to the heart, liver, spleen and large intestine.
It has the functions of benefiting water, dampness, clearing heat and detoxification. The effect of stopping blood and cooling blood is very good.
It has a good effect on improving the constitution of patients with gout and preventing metabolic disorders.
Also, the traditional chinese treatments on gout is really effecient.
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