Patient: Description of condition (onset, main symptoms, hospital visited, etc.): constant pain, limited joint movement, gout stones in hands and feet and kidneys, operated four times. Not good. Now I want to: 1. solve the pain, 2. stabilize the disease, 3. exclude gout stones, 4. restore joint function. How long do I need to go to the hospital for treatment? Dr. Wu Zhongzhao, Chief Physician, Acupuncture Hospital, Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Gout is a metabolism-related disease that is difficult to treat. The occurrence of this disease is also related to lifestyle habits, dietary structure, and body obesity. If it is important to treat this disease, it is more important to pay attention to the regulation of life. One of them is to eat less seafood, eat less soy products, drink less beer, control weight, etc. Of course, it does not mean do not treat. From the current situation, you have opened four times, the symptoms have not only not been reduced, the disease is not only not controlled, on the contrary, the various symptoms can be said to have increased, is to illustrate a truth, the treatment of this disease is only one aspect, not all. If we talk about the treatment, applying a combination of acupuncture and herbal medicine is a good solution to improve the symptoms, reduce the pain, help uric acid discharge, and also facilitate the recovery of joint function. However, the treatment of this disease is not short-term so treatment, and do not envisage that it can be cured once and for all, but to adhere to long-term treatment. Therefore, local treatment should be the main focus. Again, the daily health care of this disease is very important. Patient: Professor Wu: Hello! Thank you for your reply! I pay special attention to my diet and do not eat seafood, beer and offal. My weight is normal and I have no symptoms. I may have some problems with my work and rest schedule, but my condition is getting worse. What is the cause? How can I treat it? The Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine Acupuncture Hospital Acupuncture Department Wu Zhongzhao: Gout disease, although in the diet special attention, such as not eating seafood, do not drink beer, offal, etc., the body can generally be, why is still often attacked? Mainly the following aspects of the problem: 1, with the growth of age, kidney function is also relatively declining, uric acid discharge capacity decreased and gradually to accumulate in the body; 2, modern civilization disease, the standard of living better than before, high fat, high sugar, high viscous patients plus, uric acid content is often positively correlated; 3, the pace of work, life pattern changes, the body’s ability to withstand uric acid is insufficient; 4, long-term medication, etc., its side effects; 5, long illness without a good mood. The pain of this disease often affects the mood, and self-sensing symptoms are obvious; 6, the disease is mostly damp-heat, where damp-heat changes in the internal and external environment will affect the symptoms, or make it worse. 7.Treatment is not timely or incomplete and there are occasional attacks. 8.Other unspecified causes that aggravate its symptoms.