“Gout” and “lowering uric acid” are all Western medical terms. According to the symptoms of joint pain and unfavorable movement caused by gout, Chinese medicine puts it in the category of “paralysis” and believes that gout is mostly related to damp-heat and cold-dampness, and a variety of Chinese medicines and proprietary Chinese medicines are effective in treating gout. And gout is mostly related to dampness and heat, cold and dampness, a variety of Chinese medicine and proprietary Chinese medicine have the effect of treating gout.
1. Traditional Chinese medicine: Tiger Balm has the effect of inducing dampness and eliminating jaundice, clearing heat and removing toxins, dispersing blood stasis and relieving pain, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, and it can be used to treat a variety of diseases caused by dampness and heat, such as jaundice, gonorrhea, dysentery, rheumatism and paralysis. Poria cocos has the effects of detoxification, removing dampness, and facilitating the joints, which can be used to improve the symptoms of contracture of limbs, tendon and bone pain, and damp-heat gonorrhea.
In addition, the use of Dioscorea villosa, Wilsonia, Angelica dahurica, and leucaena leucocephala as medicines can also help relieve gout symptoms and reduce uric acid.
2. Proprietary Chinese medicines: If you do not have the condition to prescribe Chinese medicine soup for oral intake, you can directly take proprietary Chinese medicines for treatment.
Si Miao Pill is a commonly used clinical drug for gout, which is composed of Cangzhu, hyssop, salt cedar, and Coix Seed, with the effect of clearing heat and inducing dampness, it can be used for paralysis caused by damp-heat underflow (dampness and heat invading the intestines, bladder, pubic area, and the lower limbs, etc), and alleviate the symptoms of redness and swelling of the feet and knees, pain in the tendons and bones and unfavorable movement. Adverse reactions and contraindications after administration are not clear.
The above drugs should be used with caution in pregnant women. As the symptoms of each gout patient are different, the Chinese medicine practitioner should be consulted for identification first in the treatment, and the proprietary Chinese medicines should be taken under the guidance of the Chinese medicine practitioner, and better efficacy can be achieved if the Chinese medicine soup is prescribed for oral intake.