What is TCM's understanding of gout

In fact, traditional Chinese medicine has been very successful in treating many diseases. Moreover, if the patient has gout problems, he can actually be treated with traditional Chinese medicine. Moreover, in the eyes of many gout patients, further uncomfortable symptoms are often required. At this time, the treatment of gout is often a very long process. What does TCM understand about gout? How to treat it?

1. Damp-heat obstruction: Sudden redness, swelling, heat and pain in the small joints of the lower limbs, which are resistant to pressure and feel burning when touched. They are relieved by cooling down, accompanied by fever, thirst, restlessness, yellow urine, red tongue with yellow greasy coating, and slippery and rapid pulse.

2. Internal accumulation of stasis and heat: red, swollen and painful joints, local swelling and deformation, difficulty in flexion and extension, purple skin, slightly hard when pressed, nodules around the lesions, dark purple tongue or ecchymosis, thin yellow tongue coating, thin and wiry or deep and stringy pulse.

3. Phlegm-dampness blockage: swollen joints, even diffuse swelling around joints, local soreness, numbness and pain, or nodules without redness, accompanied by dizziness, puffy face and feet, chest and abdominal distension, fat and dark tongue, greasy white tongue coating, and slow or stringy and slippery pulse.

4. Liver and kidney yin deficiency: The disease lasts for a long time and recurs repeatedly. Joint pain is as if being beaten with a stick, local joint deformity is worse at night, the pain is mild during the day, the skin is numb, walking is difficult, the tendons and veins are tight, flexion and extension are difficult, dizziness and tinnitus, red cheeks and dry mouth, red tongue with little coating, and stringy or fine pulse.

5. Wind-cold-dampness arthralgia type: pain in the limbs and joints, or migratory pain, or severe joint pain that does not move, or heavy swelling and pain in the limb joints, and numbness of the skin. It worsens on rainy days, with a thin white tongue coating and a tight or loose pulse.

The principles of traditional Chinese medicine in treating gout are based on these aspects; it is based on clearing away heat and dampness, promoting blood circulation and unblocking collaterals, and some biological components contained in traditional Chinese medicine can promote the excretion of uric acid. I would also like to mention that in terms of diet, you should eat less foods containing purine, but you can eat most vegetables, various fruits, milk and dairy products, eggs, rice, sugar, etc.;

Warm reminder: In fact, gout requires active treatment. It is also recommended that patients with gout should drink as much water as possible every day. For the sake of physical health, it is necessary to further control smoking and drinking, especially not excessive drinking.