Psyllium cannot lower uric acid, but it has some secondary effects on lowering uric acid.
Uric acid is the end product of purine metabolism, mainly through the kidney and intestinal excretion. Abnormal purine metabolism or impaired uric acid excretion can cause elevated uric acid. Psyllium is a commonly used Chinese herbal medicine, with heat and detoxification, diuretic, brightening the role of the lower uric acid has a certain auxiliary effect.
High uric acid blood recommended to adjust the lifestyle, low purine diet, avoid seafood, animal offal and other high-purine food, drink more water to promote uric acid excretion, appropriate exercise.
It is recommended that people with high uric acid go to the rheumatology and immunology department of the regular hospital, endocrinology department, under the guidance of the doctor to standardize the diagnosis and treatment, do not self-medication.