Gout patients can rub safflower oil, but if the gout is in an acute attack, rub safflower oil can not play a good effect. Gout is a metabolic rheumatic disease, clinically, the pathogenesis of the biochemical basis of hyperuricemia, long-term hyperuricemia formation of urate crystals deposited in the joints, resulting in gout. When gout meets certain triggering factors, and cause gout acute attack, manifested as joint redness, swelling, heat, pain and dysfunction, this time due to the inflammatory response is heavy, joint swelling and pain is intense, rubbing the safflower oil can not play a very good effect, the need to use other drugs for anti-inflammatory, pain management, commonly used medications are colchicine, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory, painkillers, as well as glucocorticosteroids.