There is no effect of taking yellow essence for gout, yellow essence cannot improve the patient’s gout symptoms. However, it can be used by medical professionals to improve the indications for yellow essence. Gout is due to the long-term elevation of uric acid leads to patients with joints of urate deposition and thus lead to joint inflammation, the patient may appear in the joints of redness, swelling, heat and pain and other symptoms; and the essence of yellow belongs to the Chinese herbal medicine, has the qi nourishing yin, spleen, lungs and kidneys of the efficacy. Adverse reactions are not clear, cold and diarrhea, phlegm-dampness plumpness (stomach distension and discomfort) stagnation of qi people should not take. It does not have anti-inflammatory effect, so it can not relieve the symptoms of gout patients, in addition to the yellow essence does not have the efficacy of lowering uric acid, so the yellow essence is not useful for gout patients. Gout patients need to take medication under the guidance of a doctor, acute attacks through non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as celecoxib, ibuprofen, colchicine and glucocorticosteroids such as prednisone and other medications to alleviate the symptoms; remission patients can take febuxostat, allopurinol, phenylbromalone and other drugs to control the level of blood uric acid. The drugs should be used according to the doctor’s prescription.