Recommended Chinese dietary therapy for gout

  Gout is a disease that requires long-term treatment and recuperation. In the clinic, patients often ask me what they can’t eat and what they can eat, and what is a good dietary regimen for Chinese medicine. In our long-term clinical practice, we have accumulated some good TCM food therapy methods, and we recommend these food therapy programs below.  The TCM food therapy program for gout should pay attention to several principles a. Must follow the dietary principles of gout, purine intake should not exceed the standard (specific standards are easily found on the Internet, I will not repeat).  Second, do not drink alcohol, including white wine, wine, can be appropriate to drink red wine.  Third, Chinese medicine food therapy to grasp a few principles, the acute period can be used to clear the heat of medicinal food, remission period can choose to have a spleen function of food, with stones can choose to have a certain diuretic and laxative food, long-term drinking patients to use the role of the liver food.  Specific dietary therapy program recommended in the following: 1, winter melon coix seed porridge: 100 grams of winter melon, 50 grams of coix seeds, boil soup to drink, can strengthen the spleen and clear heat, can be used in the acute phase, can also be used in the early stage of gout remission.  2. Winter melon juice: use 100 grams of winter melon, add 300 grams of cold boiled water, add to a blender and blend, strain the slag, once every 2 days. It is suitable for patients in the acute stage of gout and those with stones, and can also be taken by patients who have been drinking alcohol for a long time.  3, lotus leaf tea: take fresh lotus leaves in summer after drying, each time take about 30 grams of tea, suitable for obesity, high blood lipid patients.  4, Fu Ling Shou Wu tea: take 20 grams of Fu Ling, Shou Wu 20 grams of tea instead of tea every day. Can nourish the liver and kidneys, clear heat and detoxification, for patients with increased blood uric acid in remission, can also be applied to patients with gout who often drink alcohol.  5. Panax ginseng: Take Yunnan Wenshan Panax ginseng, beat it into powder, pass it through 60 mesh sieve, 3 grams per day, it can lower blood lipids and reduce the occurrence of hypertension complications, suitable for gout patients to take for a long time.  6, corn drink: take corn or corn beard, root, leaf 100 grams of decoction for tea, often drink to help eliminate uric acid, especially for patients with kidney stones.  7, walnut puree: 250 grams of walnuts, 100 grams of yam. Soak pecans in cold boiling water containing 10 grams of salt, remove after 5 minutes, put in the microwave oven for 3 minutes, then mash with a grinder, mixed with fried yam powder, 30 grams each time, served with boiling water. Can strengthen the spleen and benefit the kidneys, for frequent night urination, gout patients with kidney deficiency performance.  8, seaweed barley soup: seaweed 150 grams, barley 60-100 grams, cooked together, without adding sugar. Can strengthen the spleen and clear heat, acute and chronic gout can be taken, with alkalinization of urine effect.  9, white thatch root drink: fresh bamboo leaves, white thatch root 10 grams each. Fresh bamboo leaves and white foxglove washed, brewed with boiling water for 30 minutes, drink as tea. Has the effect of clearing heat and cooling blood, suitable for the acute period, and has a certain effect on kidney stones.  10, yellow flowering vegetable soup: composition: 30 grams of fresh yellow flowering vegetables, water decoction, remove the slag, drink as tea. It can be used for gout, joint pain, redness and swelling, unfavorable activity, or pain in the heel refusing to press in the acute stage.  11, celery porridge: 100 grams of celery (even the root), 30 grams of rice, 750 ml of water. : Wash and chop the celery, when the porridge will be cooked, add a small amount of salt to taste when cooked, suitable for obese gout patients.  11, asparagus orange juice: 60 grams of green asparagus, 300 grams of carrots, 200 grams of oranges, 400 grams of apples, add 2000 grams of water, squeeze and filter the juice to make a drink for long-term consumption for gout patients.  12, lily japonica rice porridge: fresh lily 50-100 grams, japonica rice appropriate amount. The two ingredients cooked porridge, taken in the acute period to help relieve pain, can be taken for a long time.  13, mulberry leaf and chrysanthemum tea: mulberry leaf and chrysanthemum 20g each, brewed tea, drink as tea, has the effect of clearing liver and moistening dryness, suitable for long-term drinking gout patients.  All gout patients, on the basis of standardized treatment, use some TCM food therapy programs to help improve the condition, reduce the onset of symptoms and improve the quality of life. In the future, we will further actively discover new food therapy programs and recommend them to you.