Does dandelion help with gout?

Dandelion is a wild vegetable and also a common Chinese herbal medicine. The most obvious effect of dandelion is clearing away heat and detoxifying. It has a certain effect of reducing swelling and dispersing nodules. It can also play a certain auxiliary effect in the treatment of gout. For example, drinking water soaked with dandelions regularly can prevent gout to a certain extent. In addition to dandelions, some Chinese medicines can also play a certain role in treatment and health care. Let us learn about it.

1. Houttuynia cordata

Houttuynia cordata is a very common food. It has a really great diuretic effect. It speeds up blood flow, helps you excrete uric acid from the body, and reduces the formation of uric acid in the blood.

Moreover, when you have joint pain or gout attacks, you can drink more Houttuynia cordata tea, which can help you relieve pain.

2. Dandelion tea

Dandelion has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, reducing swelling and dispersing nodules, promoting diuresis and relieving stranguria, reducing acid and excreting fat. It is an important Chinese medicinal material used by traditional Chinese medicine to lower uric acid, reduce inflammation and kill bacteria.

Drinking dandelion tea is a health-care tea recommended by traditional Chinese medicine. It can lower blood lipids and acid, prevent and treat gout, and also improve arthritis, dermatitis, rheumatism, pharyngitis, etc.

Three: Two Herb Tea (Money Grass, Plantain)

Centella asiatica and Plantain have always been commonly used diuretic and stone-removing drugs. They can promote uric acid excretion, inhibit and remove uric acid crystals, thereby achieving the purpose of treating gout.

The specific method of drinking it is to add 15 grams each of dried Centella asiatica and Plantain to water and boil it every morning and then drink it as tea.

4. Corn silk tea

Corn silk has a strong diuretic function, which increases urine output and excretes uric acid through the diuretic process, so uric acid will naturally decrease.

At the same time, corn silk has the effects of calming the gallbladder and liver, lowering blood pressure and blood sugar. The effect will be better if you soak corn silk and loofah in water and drink it. The specific method is to take 30-50 grams of corn silk and 30-50 grams of loofah, soak them in cold water for half an hour, then boil them for 20-30 minutes, and drink them instead of tea.

5. Lily Water

Lily is rich in colchicine, which can reduce inflammation during gout attacks, effectively relieve pain, and has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on acute joint inflammation caused by gout attacks.

Gout patients often eat lilies, which has a very good therapeutic and preventive effect. At the same time, lily also has a certain hypnotic and calming effect on gout patients who suffer from pain and poor sleep.