I. Basic treatment of gout: 1, diet therapy, see the article I posted: the diet table for gout patients. 2. Drink a lot of water (preferably weak alkaline water), about 3000ml (6 bottles of ordinary mineral water) per day, you can make your own weak alkaline water, add 1-2 tablets of sodium bicarbonate per 500ml of plain water, and drink after dissolving. Elderly patients drink the right amount of water according to their heart function. Treatment during the painful period: 1. Restriction of activities: It is best to rest flat on your back and reduce weight-bearing on the joints, the sooner you restrict activities, the faster you will recover! 2, pain treatment: 1), Chinese herbal decoction fumigation joint treatment, the effect is good 2), drug treatment: antipyretic and analgesic anti-inflammatory drugs, hormones, colchicine three choices, can be combined with drugs. It is also possible to add pain-relieving Chinese medicines, which have synergistic effects and reduce the efficacy of side effects of western medicines. Third, the treatment of the remission period, that is, uric acid-lowering treatment. Generally, no uric acid-lowering drugs are used during the painful period, but if acute gout is induced in the process of taking uric acid-lowering drugs, it is not necessary to stop using uric acid-lowering drugs, but to add painkillers directly. 1.Uric acid excretory drugs: commonly used benzbromarone, if the patient has more and larger stones in both kidneys, it is prudent to use, taking such drugs generally need to take sodium bicarbonate at the same time to alkalize the urine. 2, inhibit uric acid production drugs in the body: commonly used allopurinol, may cause exfoliative dermatitis, need to be closely observed, timely discontinuation; a new generation of drugs to inhibit uric acid production are febuxostat, good effect of uric acid reduction and small side effects, but the price is expensive. The above-mentioned uric acid-lowering drugs can be chosen as one, and generally do not need to be used in combination. 3, Chinese herbal medicine to lower uric acid, the effect of Chinese herbal medicine alone to lower uric acid is slow, need to be taken for a long time, generally does not induce acute gout, recommended with western medicine treatment, there is a synergistic effect and reduce the efficacy of western medicine side effects.