How does traditional Chinese medicine treat gout? Old Chinese medicine practitioners recommend several dietary prescriptions

Gout is a disease that often occurs in middle-aged men and postmenopausal women. When gout attacks, redness, swelling and tingling will appear in the joints. Gout attacks can have a significant impact on people's lives. So, what methods are there in traditional Chinese medicine to treat gout?

1: Ingredients: 15g of mistletoe, 30g of corn silk, 15g of wild yam, 10g of Angelica dahurica. Method: Wash all ingredients, add 600ml of water, decoct the juice. Directions: Drink instead of tea, 1 dose per day. Efficacy: It can promote the excretion of uric acid and relieve the pain caused by gout.

1: Boil 10g of Saposhnikovia divaricata and 30g of Coix seeds in water until the seeds are cooked. Take 1 dose per day. Function: Clears away heat, dispels wind and relieves arthritis. Suitable for gout caused by damp-heat obstruction.

1: 50g red bean and 50g coix seed, cook into porridge and drink, 1 dose per day. Function: Nourishes the spleen and stomach, promotes diuresis and eliminates dampness.

1: 100g raw Chinese yam, 10g Allium macrostemon, 50g polished rice, 30g Pinellia ternata, 30g Astragalus membranaceus, and appropriate amount of white sugar, 1 dose per day. First wash the rice, add in finely chopped Chinese yam and washed pinellia and leek, cook together, add sugar and eat. Function: Invigorate Qi, promote Yang, resolve phlegm and eliminate numbness. It is suitable for gout caused by spleen deficiency, internal generation of phlegm and resulting in qi deficiency and phlegm obstruction.

1: Ingredients: 250 grams of pork bones, 1 tangerine peel, 3 slices of ginger, 1000 grams of winter melon, 30 grams each of red beans, lentils and coix seeds. Method: Wash all the ingredients, cut the winter melon with skin and seeds into small pieces, chop the pork bones, put them together in the pot, add appropriate amount of water and boil into soup. How to eat: Take as a side dish. Efficacy: Strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, relieve gout

1: 30 grams of wild yam and 50 grams of polished rice. First, boil the wild yam into liquid medicine, then add polished rice to cook into porridge, one dose per day. Function: Clearing away heat, detoxifying, promoting dampness and unblocking meridians.

1: 15g peach kernel, 150g polished rice. First, mash the peach kernel into a paste, add water to grind into juice, remove the residue, then add polished rice to cook porridge, 1 dose per day. Function: Promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, dredge meridians and relieve pain. Suitable for gout caused by blood stasis, phlegm and obstruction.

Five dietary therapy recipes for gout and dietary taboos for gout patients. During the attack period of gout, patients must pay attention to quitting alcohol, eating less meat, and eating more high-potassium, kidney-strengthening, and blood-activating foods.