Patient: The uric acid is normal, but the foot still hurts, how to solve the pain of the disease? Doctor’s Answer: Hello, since Western painkillers have been used a lot, you can use Chinese herbal medicine to treat the look. Moreover, the situation you mentioned is clinically common and is a difficult problem to explain, although it is not necessarily the focus of your attention, still want to say a little personal understanding. The actual clinical situation is: with western medicine blood uric acid drops significantly, but often local symptoms do not improve or frequent attacks, Chinese medicine treatment of gout, blood uric acid drops more slowly, or even stabilize at the original level, but the symptoms disappear or prolong the interval between attacks and the degree of re-attacks is less than before treatment. Is it possible to understand that Western medicine reduces the blood uric acid, but it can’t do anything about the local deposits in the joints, so the pain continues. In contrast, Chinese medicine seeks to treat the root of the problem, by strengthening the middle earth, resolving dampness and heat, eliminating phlegm and blood stasis, and even softening and dispersing the knots, so that the evil in the joints can be cleared, the qi and blood can flow smoothly, the veins and blood can be painful, and the paralysis can be cured. This is because the idea of Western medicine in treating gout is to reduce the formation of uric acid (allopurinol) and promote the excretion of uric acid (benzbromarone). Of course, there is also pain relief – improving local symptoms (you use a lot of them: etoricoxib tablets, sodium bicarbonate tablets, Zhengqing Fengxin slow-release tablets, diacerein capsules), without exploring the reasons why blood uric acid is constantly produced. In Chinese medicine, gout belongs to the category of paralysis, which is a paralysis of dampness, heat, phlegm, silt and blood, resulting in localized redness, swelling and pain in the joints, and the disease is fierce. The idea of treatment is to clear heat and dispel dampness while at the same time strengthen the middle jiao, so that there is no way for evil to arise and no way for the disease to get there.