Traditional Chinese medicine has six tips to prevent gout

Gout is a type of arthritis. Every time it is rainy, arthritis patients always feel uncomfortable. As the saying goes, "Prevention is better than cure." So how should we prevent gout? Follow the editor to learn more.

Traditional Chinese medicine has six tips to prevent gout

1. Pay attention to your diet

In your diet, you should eat less animal offal, fish and foods with high purine content, such as pigs, beef, mutton, ham, sausages, chickens, ducks, geese, rabbits, fish and shrimps, spinach, beans, mushrooms, etc. You should also eat less peanuts. Avoid alcohol, especially beer. You should drink plenty of water and eat more baked pasta, alkali-containing porridge (which can promote uric acid excretion) and all root vegetables. Most fruits are edible.

2. Excessive drinking is prohibited

Especially beer and seafood cannot be eaten together. If they are eaten together for a long time, purine excretion will be reduced and gout will occur.

3. Prevent hyperlipidemia

Hyperlipidemia can not only cause cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, but also cause metabolic disorders, affect uric acid excretion, and cause gout. The main method is to control your diet and eat low-fat, light and easy-to-digest foods.

4. Prevent cold and overexertion

Cold exposure and overwork can disrupt a person’s autonomic nervous system, leading to constriction of blood vessels on the body surface and internal organs. Vasoconstriction reduces uric acid excretion.

5. Use drugs rationally to prevent the increase in blood uric acid caused by drugs

Patients who have been taking aspirin, diuretics, penicillin, anti-tuberculosis drugs, etc. for a long time should have their blood uric acid tested regularly. These drugs can inhibit the excretion of uric acid by the renal tubules. If uric acid remains high for a long time, it can lead to the formation of gout.

6. Exercise should be appropriate and avoid strenuous exercise

The lactic acid produced by strenuous exercise can inhibit the excretion of uric acid by the renal tubules, causing an increase in uric acid in the blood. In addition, increased sweating causes a decrease in blood volume and a decrease in the amount of uric acid excreted by the kidneys, leading to gout.

These three medicinal porridges can effectively relieve gout

Dioscorea and white porridge

100 grams of raw Chinese yam, 10 grams of wild rice, 50 grams of japonica rice, 30 grams of pinellia ternata, 30 grams of astragalus, appropriate amount of sugar, 1 dose per day. First wash the rice, add finely chopped yam, washed pinellia and sorghum, cook together, add sugar and eat.

Function: Replenishing qi and unblocking yang, resolving phlegm and removing paralysis. It is suitable for gout syndrome caused by spleen deficiency and phlegm obstruction due to spleen deficiency and internal phlegm turbidity.

Parsip and barley porridge

Take 10 grams of Fangfeng and 30 grams of coix seed. Boil in water until the coix seed is cooked. Take 1 dose per day.

Function: Clear away heat, dispel wind and relieve paralysis. Suitable for damp-heat paralysis type gout.

Red bean and barley porridge

Take 50 grams of adzuki beans and 50 grams of coix seed in porridge, 1 dose per day.

Function: Replenishes the spleen and stomach, diuresis and dampness.