Five-fingered hairy peach can not treat gout, Tu Fu Ling evidence of dampness-heat accumulation (dampness and heat in the body of the mutual accumulation of evil) of gout has a certain role in improving, but a single use of traditional Chinese medicine is limited in efficacy, it is difficult to completely cure gout, but also need to be based on the physical condition of the patient, with the combination of other drugs to treat.
Gout belongs to the category of “paralysis” in Chinese medicine, which is characterized by soreness, pain, numbness in tendons, bones, joints and muscles, unfavorable flexion and extension of joints, stiffness and enlargement of joints. Wind-cold, damp-heat, phlegm and stasis lead to meridian paralysis, Qi and blood running for the basic mechanism, according to different symptoms, this disease can be divided into damp-heat condensation evidence, spleen deficiency and dampness obstruction evidence, cold and dampness paralysis obstruction evidence, etc. Various types of this disease.
Five-fingered hairy peach has the effect of relaxing tendons and activating collaterals, dispelling phlegm and resolving dampness, benefiting qi and strengthening the spleen, treating spleen and stomach qi deficiency, limb lethargy and weakness, eating less, abdominal distension, oedema under the belt, lung deficiency and phlegm asthma, rheumatism paralysis, etc. There is no authoritative information on the treatment of gout with this medicine. Poria cocos can facilitate joints, remove dampness and detoxification, although it can not completely cure gout, but the gout of damp-heat condensation evidence has a certain improvement.
Poria cocos has limited efficacy and may not be able to achieve a good improvement, so people with gout due to dampness-heat syndrome may need to use other medicines under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner, and Poria cocos should be used with caution in people with deficiency of yin in the liver and kidneys.