I believe none of us are strangers to gout, but we normal people cannot really appreciate the pain it brings to patients. Patients with gout often experience sudden joint pain at night, with an acute onset of severe pain, edema, redness and inflammation in the joint area, which slowly decreases until it disappears and lasts for several days or weeks. The most common joint affected is the big toe, but it is not limited to the joints of the hands, knees, elbows, etc. The affected joints eventually become red, swollen, and inflamed, and the edema softens the tissue, limiting movement and eventually interfering with daily life. Gout is a crystal-associated arthropathy caused by monosodium urate deposition and is directly related to hyperuricemia due to disorders of purine metabolism or decreased uric acid excretion. It is also a common and complex type of arthritis that can develop in all age groups, with a higher incidence in men than in women and children. Although gout is terrible, it is not untreatable. The following are the main western drugs that have a good effect on the treatment of gout: 1. Colchicine, which has a significant effect on the control of gouty arthritis, is the first choice, and generally reduces symptoms 6-12h after taking the drug, and can be relieved in more than 90% of patients in 24-48h. 2, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory analgesics, these drugs are mainly for patients who can not tolerate colchicine. Commonly used drugs are indomethacin, piroxicam (inflammation pain Xikang), naproxen, ibuprofen, pautaxone and hydroxybutazone, etc., of which indomethacin is the most widely used. 3, glucocorticosteroids, these drugs only for with colchicine, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs treatment is not effective, can not tolerate or have a contraindication, can consider short-term use. 4, drugs that inhibit uric acid synthesis, mainly allopurinol. It can inhibit xanthine oxidase, so that hypoxanthine and xanthine cannot be oxidized to uric acid, thus rapidly reducing blood uric acid concentration and reducing the formation of gout stones and uric acid stones. 5, to promote the excretion of uric acid drugs, these drugs mainly through the inhibition of renal tubular reabsorption of uric acid, increase uric acid excretion and reduce the blood uric acid level. There are mainly propofol, pyrithione, benzbromarone and other drugs are of this kind of drugs. For the treatment of gout, it is necessary to listen to the doctor’s advice on how to use western medicine according to the individual’s physical condition. During the treatment period, you should pay attention to reduce exogenous purine sources, avoid eating purine containing diet such as animal offal, fish and shrimp, meat, peas, etc.; prevent overweight, generally do not advocate drinking alcohol, advocate drinking more water, keep the daily urine volume above 2000ml.