Gout patients can rub safflower oil, but if the gout is in the acute attack, rubbing safflower oil does not play a good effect. Gout is a metabolic rheumatism, clinically, the biochemical basis of its development is hyperuricemia, long-term hyperuricemia formed by uric acid crystals deposited in the joints, thus appearing gout. When gout encounters certain triggering factors and causes an acute attack of gout, it manifests as redness, swelling, heat, pain and dysfunction of the joints, at this time, due to the heavy inflammatory reaction, joint swelling and pain is intense, rubbing safflower oil does not play a good effect, you need to use other drugs for anti-inflammatory, pain relief treatment, commonly used drugs are colchicine, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory, painkillers and glucocorticoids.