I am still often asked, “Should I use Chinese or Western medicine for gout”. There is no difference between Chinese and Western medicine. What doctors have to do is to choose the most suitable method for different patients. Everyone’s gout is different. Everyone has a different constitution, different habits and different underlying diseases. Many people know that colchicine can cure gout, and some people buy some medicine in their own pharmacies and take it. But if this can control the gout, it is too easy. Western medicine is fast, and some of them will relieve the pain within half an hour of use. The Chinese medicine is a little more troublesome, you have to catch the medicine, decoction, generally two or three days to see the effect, but the effect of a good dose to see the effect. The actual fact is that you can get a lot more than just a few of the most popular and most popular drugs. You can’t drink tea with this formula. For heavy blood stasis, you can add wuzhang snake and gunnera, and for lighter cases, add peach kernel, etc. When using Chinese medicine, especially those with a yellow, thick and greasy tongue, you can consider the pass down method to control the stool to 2-3 times a day. If the tiger wort alone does not pass down, use the mountain cichlid mushroom and rhubarb. Some of the gout patients have thin stools, so it is still possible to use Tiger Balm and other general medicine. For obvious pain, the skin color red is not obvious, involving the knee and ankle and other large joints should strengthen the application of energizing drugs, such as wei ling xian, luo shi teng, made Chuan Wu, Wu zhi snake, herb snake, etc.. The external washing is also a good choice, Qingfeng vine, mountain cichlid mushroom, raw rhubarb and other Chinese herbs I generally do not use as internal, but external use is a good choice. The method of internal use is the method of external use. The effect is still quite fast. The second is to benefit the kidney high uric acid Chinese medicine believes that the kidney is not good qi, so the relief period should benefit the kidney. There are many ways to benefit the kidneys. The kidney in Chinese medicine has a certain relationship with sexual function, so sometimes this aspect will be affected to a certain extent. I will not list the drugs, because the tonic will be used to eat, gout is originally caused by metabolic deficiencies, many of the tonic is nourishing and greasy, sometimes the more the gout more heavy. A lot of people with gout are white and fat people. Sometimes it’s too late to let off steam, so you can’t make up for it. The people with white faces, more Yang deficiency, so the treatment must pay attention to the protection of Yang Qi. The Chinese medicine so treated, the gout attack interval will be extended. 1, gout avoid acidic food I many patients, have been told elsewhere to avoid acidic food, but many patients and doctors do not know what is acidic food. Acidity is the result of the metabolism of food into the body, some entrance is not acidic, but after metabolism is acidic, such as seafood, etc.; some entrance is acidic, but after metabolism is actually alkaline, such as vinegar, especially apple cider vinegar, has the effect of lowering uric acid. Oranges and prunes are also acidic and can be eaten. 2, tofu beans purine is quite a lot, so the acute attack period, soy milk do not drink. However, the remission period, eat some tofu to is possible, because tofu in the production process, purine will be part of the loss to the water, so tofu in purine than in soy milk to be less. Some of my patients have gout from eating melon and fava beans, but I rarely see any gout from eating tofu. Nutrition is based on balance, (more soy milk for women and more milk for men is good). For those who like tofu, I think it’s okay to eat tofu once in a while. The gout patients who like to eat meat may want to eat some Dongpo meat, stewed thin kind, this kind of meat is very fragrant, stewed rotten most of the saturated fatty acids have become unsaturated.