How to identify and treat gout in Chinese medicine

In Chinese medicine, the main types of gout include wind-cold-dampness paralysis, wind-dampness-heat paralysis, phlegm-stasis paralysis, and deficiency of the liver and kidney, etc. The medicines chosen for different types of gout are different. 1. If the main symptoms of gout are cold pain in the joints of the limbs, aggravated by cold, and reduced by warmth, it is considered to be wind-cold-dampness paralysis, and can be treated with Fangfeng Tang. 2. If the main cause is burning pain in the joints of the limbs, it is rheumatism-heat paralysis, and can be treated with Baihu plus Guizhi Tang. 3. If the joints are stiff and deformed, with unfavorable flexion and extension, muscle atrophy, hard knots, ecchymosis, etc., it is considered to be paralysis with phlegm and stasis, and can be treated with Shuanghe Tang. 4. If the paralysis does not heal for a long time, with swollen joints, stiffness and deformation, unfavorable flexion and extension, muscle thinning, soreness and weakness of waist and knees, etc., it is considered to be the deficiency of liver and kidney, and it can be treated with DuoYuShengShengTang. It is recommended that the patient timely consultation, specific medication need to consult a doctor, should not self-medication, so as not to delay the condition.