What vegetables are good for gout?

For gout patients, they must pay attention to care and treatment in life, especially a reasonable and healthy diet, which is a way to improve ventilation. They can eat more vegetables such as cucumbers, green vegetables, eggplants, cabbage, etc.

1. Cucumber

It is an alkaline vegetable food that is rich in vitamin C, potassium salt and a lot of water. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cucumbers have the effects of removing heat, promoting diuresis, detoxifying, and promoting salivation and quenching thirst. "Bencao Qiuzhen" once said: "Cucumbers have a sweet and cold taste. Taking them can help relieve heat and diuresis." This is very beneficial for people with gout and high blood uric acid, as they can excrete excess uric acid through the "heat-relief and diuresis" effect. Cucumbers can be eaten raw or as a cold dish.

2. Green vegetables

Commonly known as Chinese cabbage and cabbage, it is an evergreen vegetable that basically does not contain purine. It not only contains more vitamin C and potassium salt, but is also an alkaline food. "Compendium of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan" says that it can "promote urination" and believes that green vegetables also have the effects of relieving fever, eliminating restlessness, and promoting bowel movement. Therefore, people with gout can eat it often and more often all year round.

3. Eggplant

It has the effects of promoting blood circulation and reducing swelling, dispelling wind and unblocking meridians, clearing away heat and relieving pain. It is not only an alkaline food, but also contains almost no purine substances. Modern research has also found that it has a certain diuretic effect and is suitable for gout patients to eat regularly.

4. Cabbage

Commonly known as cabbage, also known as kale, is a vegetable that basically does not contain purine. It contains a large amount of vitamin C and has the function of excreting harmful substances from the body. "Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica" says that it "replenishes the bone marrow, benefits the internal organs, benefits the joints, and unblocks the qi in the meridians." Therefore, cabbage is also a suitable food for people with gout.

5. Potatoes

It is an alkaline food that basically does not contain purine. It also contains a large amount of vitamin C and rich potassium salts, which can alkalize urine and have a diuretic effect.