Gout is a metabolic disorder in which uric acid salts are deposited in the joints of the legs and arms. The disease often manifests itself in adulthood.
It is impossible to completely cure chronic advanced gout. But complex therapy, including medications, folk remedies and diet, can reduce the symptoms of the disease (joint inflammation, redness, pain) to nothing and, in general, significantly alleviate the course of the pathology.
What folk remedies are used to treat gout:
It is also important to follow a diet.
With regular use of the recipes, which I will discuss later in the article, acute attacks of gout can be stopped at home. Before using any traditional methods yourself, be sure to consult a rheumatologist.
Next, I will tell you in more detail about the most effective folk remedies. All of them help relieve pain and inflammation of the joint due to gout.
Mix 2 bottles of valerian alcohol tincture with 1 bottle of triple cologne, put the resulting liquid in a dark, dry place for 1-2 days.
Apply a cotton swab soaked in the mixture daily to the sore toe and leave it overnight, wrapped in film and tied with a bandage. Treat gout with these lotions for at least 2 weeks.
Valerian root infusion
Pour 0.5 kg of iodized salt into an enamel bowl, add a liter of clean water and boil until the liquid has completely evaporated. Add 0.2 kg of Vaseline or melted pork (or chicken) fat to the remaining salt on the bottom and mix.
Apply the resulting ointment to the damaged joint of the leg or arm in a thick layer, secure with polyethylene and a bandage.
Prepare minced meat from any raw fish or simply cut the fish fillet into small pieces. Apply the minced meat to the sore leg, wrap it in cling film and put on a wool sock. Leave the fish compress on overnight. For convenience, chopped fish can be divided into portions and stored in the freezer, using only part of the minced meat daily.
Treat gout pain with this method for at least 10 days.
Minced fish compress
The effectiveness of this folk remedy for the treatment of gout was first proven by a Japanese rheumatologist.
Take two containers that are deep enough (to fit your sore leg or arm). In one, put any cereal and pour boiling water over it, in the second, after 5-7 minutes, pour cold water with ice cubes. Steamed porridge will maintain an acceptable, tolerable temperature for the skin for a long time.
Take turns lowering the sore limb into the cold and then into the heat, holding for 5–7 seconds. The duration of the procedure is up to 5 minutes. The course of treatment for gout on the legs with contrasting temperatures is 2–3 months.
Treatment of disease with contrasting temperatures
Cut raw lard into thin slices, apply 1-2 pieces of the product to the sore leg at night, cover with film and put a wool sock on top of the lotion.
You need to treat the disease with this folk remedy for at least 2 weeks. A prerequisite is parallel adherence to the diet.
Pour 6 liters of hot water into a basin, add 1 teaspoon of iodine and 3 tablespoons of soda, stir. Place the affected limb in a container of water and hold it until it cools completely.
Treatment of gout with this folk remedy will give a positive result after 7-10 procedures.
Take all ingredients in equal proportions, mix thoroughly and apply a thin layer to the sore joint, preheated in a warm bath. Wrap the limb in film and a warm towel and leave overnight.
You need to treat the disease with this folk remedy every day for 14 days, without skipping the procedure.
Pour 100 g of dried medicinal chamomile flowers with ten liters of cold water and add 2 tablespoons of table salt. Stir and let sit for 1-2 hours.
Warm the resulting infusion slightly and make baths with it, dipping the sore spot in chamomile water. This recipe is perfect for the complex treatment of gout.
Take 1 package (10 tablets) of activated carbon, grind them into powder and add a little water to a paste. Apply the resulting mixture to the sore leg, wrap with film and bandage, and leave overnight.
This folk remedy very quickly relieves acute pain and partially relieves inflammation.
Below are the most effective recipes for herbal infusions and decoctions to relieve pain and relieve inflammation in the joint.
Pour two glasses of boiling water over several green cones of common spruce and leave overnight in a cool, dark place.
Drink the resulting liquid to treat the disease, half a glass three times a day between meals.
Pour 2 glasses of cold, clean water into an enamel bowl and place 3-4 bay leaves in it. Bring the liquid to a boil and simmer uncovered for at least 5 minutes. The resulting bay water must be left for 3–4 hours, then cooled and drunk a glass twice a day.
It is necessary to treat gout with this folk remedy for 1–2 weeks - during this time, salt deposits will be partially removed from the body.
Place a couple of sprigs of dry grass in a cup and pour boiling water over it (you can also add your favorite tea). Leave the decoction for at least 20 minutes, then drink.
A series and a decoction from it
Fill a glass bottle with a wide neck with lilac flowers (do not compact the flowers), fill it with 0.2 liters of vodka. Leave the liquid in the dark for at least a week, shake periodically. Drink the resulting tincture 2–3 ml three times a day 1–2 hours before meals.
This recipe will significantly speed up the treatment of advanced gout and relieve pain. Take the following ingredients:
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Grind and mix all the ingredients, pour 23 grams of the resulting mixture with a liter of boiling water and leave to steep for an hour. Drink the resulting decoction half a glass once an hour until joint pain is relieved.
Take 4 g of dried crushed red madder root, pour 0.2 liters of boiling water, let it brew for a couple of hours. Drink the resulting infusion 0.1 liter twice a day. Course duration – 1 week.
Red madder and its dried root
Pour 1 liter of water into the pan and put 2-3 medium onions with peel, previously washed and peeled, boil for 40-50 minutes, strain. Drink the resulting decoction three times a day, half an hour before meals. The course of treatment for gout with this folk remedy is 2 weeks.
During the treatment of the disease, it is necessary to adhere to the nutritional principles described below.
Take 2-4 tablespoons of regular white long grain rice, rinse it several times in water and leave it in it until the morning. In the morning, rinse and cook again, then rinse again. Boil the rice at least 3-4 times, then eat the resulting gruel on an empty stomach. After eating boiled rice, do not eat or drink anything for 4 hours.
Eat this dish twice a day for 1–2 months. Rice will perfectly cleanse the intestines and take away all the waste and toxins, and will also help you lose weight.
Take 1 teaspoon of freshly squeezed black radish juice 2 hours after meals. Gradually increase the dose to 100 ml.
Continue treating gout with this folk remedy for up to 3 weeks.
Treatment will be more effective with regular, feasible stress on the body (long walking, jogging, cycling).
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Good evening. My son has gout, a high level of uric acid in the blood - now 523, pain in the leg joint is acute very rarely, once every 1.5-2 years. The doctor prescribed taking 1 tablet of alopurinol. Once a day, but the level does not drop. What are the possible treatment methods in our case? Thank you in advance.
Nila, you can try the drug Sulfinpyrazone. It increases acid excretion by the kidneys through increased diuresis. Children are mainly prescribed drops rather than tablets. The advantages of using the medicine are that it has a mild but strong effect. Cons – removes potassium and sodium from the body. A special diet is also required. Adjusting your diet will not cure the disease, but will help bring the metabolite level within normal limits. If the level is high, it is prohibited to consume protein foods and fructose.
Check out the traditional medicine recipes in this article. Their use will come in handy.
To reduce the level of acid and to increase its excretion by the kidneys, it is recommended to use decoctions of birch leaves, lingonberries, angelica root, and bay leaves. Herbs promote the elimination of acid by the kidneys, reducing its content. Prepare a drink from the infusion as follows: add two tablespoons of dry herbs to a glass of boiling water; cover with a lid for 3 hours; use according to Art. l. 2 times a day before meals.
To effectively eliminate the symptoms and causes of the disease, gout is treated with folk remedies. This direction is auxiliary to the main therapy and allows you to maintain healthy joints during remission. Let's look at the most popular recipes for home remedies.
To better understand how to treat gout with folk remedies, you need to become more familiar with this problem. Gout predominantly affects men, but at older ages women are not immune from it.
Previously, gout was considered the “disease of kings.” There is a completely logical explanation for this: the monarchs did not disdain fatty foods and drinks, and became noticeably rounder with age.
Important: obesity, alcohol and junk food are the main predisposing factors.
Meat and sausages in large quantities cause disruption of protein metabolism. Purines provoke the accumulation of uric acid in the blood, which is deposited in the kidneys, joints and under the skin in the form of tophi. Salts cause stiffness, inflammation and pain.
Deposition of uric acid salts
Against the background of such processes, gouty arthritis often develops. Treatment with folk remedies is aimed at relieving unpleasant symptoms and cleansing the body of urates.
If we take a closer look at the symptoms of this disease, they appear depending on the degree of neglect of the problem. Initially, the discomfort is almost unnoticeable and intensifies at night or after physical activity. Subsequently, the pain becomes more intense, swelling and a kind of lump develop. All this complicates the movement of the diseased joint.
A characteristic sign of the disease is a lump
Treatment of gout with folk remedies and the symptoms of the disease are closely interrelated. One of the goals of therapy is to eliminate such manifestations of pathology:
Properly selected recipes can not only eliminate the symptoms of gout, but are also aimed at eliminating the causes and consequences of the disease. In addition, they significantly strengthen human immunity.
Traditional methods of treating gout are only one component of complex therapy. Efforts must be multifaceted to achieve sustainable remission as quickly as possible.
It is necessary to eliminate the pain symptom and normalize metabolic processes
The general treatment regimen is as follows:
Important: you need to follow a regimen and use orthopedic devices. In some cases, surgery is necessary.
When all methods are combined, it is possible to achieve a significant improvement in health within a few months. Since the disease is chronic, preventive measures must be taken to maintain remission.
Folk remedies for gout deserve special attention due to their diversity and breadth of action. Recipes for external and internal use are divided. Some components can be used in both directions. Let's take a closer look at the most popular and effective methods of traditional therapy.
First of all, we need to mention the external treatment of gout using traditional methods. This includes the following:
It is useful to do contrast baths. To do this, the affected joint is alternately immersed in cool and warm water. For greater effect, it is recommended to soak wheat grains in a warm bath. You can also do steaming in water with mustard.
Apple cider vinegar has worked well. For gout, it is used for rubbing and bathing in concentrated form, as well as diluted for internal use.
Apple cider vinegar can be used externally or taken internally
The most popular compresses are the following recipes:
Before applying a compress before going to bed, it is recommended to steam the joint. It is very useful for your feet to take soda or salt baths with the addition of essential oils.
To relieve inflammation, sore spots are smeared with warm butter or olive oil, adding iodine, beeswax, aspirin, fish bile or alcoholic herbal tinctures.
In the treatment of gout, plants are actively used for internal use. Such home remedies not only relieve pain and inflammation, but also help saturate the body with vitamins and have a diuretic effect. They remove salts from the body and neutralize uric acid.
Herbal teas have a diuretic effect
Pharmacy preparations or independently prepared herbal mixes are used as herbal teas. Weak green tea without any additives is also suitable. If we consider herbs, for gout it is recommended to prepare decoctions and tinctures from the following components:
For gout, you need to drink 3 to 8 cups of this tea a day. The specific components of the collection, their ratio and dosage should be checked with your doctor.
Alcohol tinctures help a lot. The selected ingredients are infused in alcohol for at least 2 weeks, and then the product is taken orally, diluted with water. The dosage is measured by the number of drops and depends on the initial concentration of alcohol. For gout, infusions are prepared from the following components:
Mixtures of lemon, apple cider vinegar, garlic, onions and a decoction of it are also prepared.
An effective combination - lemon, garlic and honey
Traditional methods of treating gout are not limited to medicinal prescriptions. An important component of the overall complex is the adjustment of nutrition and the introduction of certain foods into the diet.
You must adhere to the following rules:
Be sure to include fruits and berries in your diet
Sources of vitamins for gout are fruits, berries and vegetables. They can be eaten both raw and processed: in pies and casseroles, compotes, stews, baked, etc.
The best helpers in the fight against gout are:
It is not recommended to eat cauliflower, raspberries, spinach and sorrel, grapes, peas, asparagus, and green beans.
Some folk recipes are focused on intense effects on the body, especially on sore joints. Others have a diuretic effect and help clear uric acid. However, there is a third category, which is designed to support a person’s health in the future, after stopping a gout attack.
In addition to eliminating the signs of gout and treating with folk remedies, pay attention to the following preventive measures:
Monitor your weight and diet
If you follow these recommendations, as well as use folk recipes within reasonable limits to improve your health, gout will not bother you. Focus your efforts on eliminating the causes of the disease and do not ignore alarming symptoms during gout exacerbation.
Co-author of the material: Dmitry Ulyanov is an orthopedist-rheumatologist with 22 years of experience, a doctor of the first category. Engaged in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of all diseases of the joints and connective tissue. He has a diploma in Rheumatology and studied at the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia.
What folk remedies to use for gout? Recipes used in folk medicine for the treatment of gout and joint diseases include means for removing salts from the body. Such folk remedies include such very common plants as garlic, onions, string and others.
Take 1 teaspoon of tincture of flowers and pine pollen 3 times a day before meals. ;
Take 2-4 tablespoons per day for gout, as well as for anemia (anemia), dropsy, prostatitis, cystitis, arthritis, diabetes;
Place on low heat and cook until boiling, stand for another 1 minute, remove from heat and crush and mix everything thoroughly. Cool and apply as a compress to the sore spot overnight;
Take 0.5 cups 4 times a day for pain in the lower back and joints;
It is better to prepare birch bud tincture with alcohol (70-95%) 1:5. Infuse for seven days, strain and drink 1 teaspoon three times a day as a choleretic and diuretic. It is useful to lubricate bedsores and diaper rash with it. Fill a glass jar halfway with birch buds and fill to the brim with vodka. Leave for a month in a dark place, shaking occasionally. Drink 40 drops four times a day for gout. This tincture is also an effective external remedy for rubbing into sore joints for gout, rheumatism, and sciatica. For otitis media, tincture of birch buds in vodka 1:10 helps a lot. Instill 2-3 drops into sore ears once a day, the course of treatment is 15 days.
Gout is a disease associated with the deposition of salt crystals in various tissues, mainly in the joints.
It is believed that the disease is associated either with excessive formation of uric acid in the body, or with a decrease in the body's ability to remove this substance from the blood through the kidneys. Primary gout is probably hereditary and is caused by the presence of an abnormal X chromosome. Thus, it is predominantly men who fall ill, and women are usually only carriers of the disease.
Secondary gout is caused by other disorders, such as leukemia or cancer of the blood-forming organs (bone marrow, liver, spleen). Secondary joint damage can also be caused by taking certain medications, including aspirin and some diuretics.
With gout, crystalline particles form in the synovial fluid of the joint, which leads to inflammation accompanied by pain. Typically, one joint is affected, often the big toe. At the same time, inflammation of other joints, such as the ankle and knee, is also possible. Acute attacks of gout without treatment last from 3 to 10 days or a little longer.
In the chronic course of gout, frequent exacerbations are observed, leading to persistent disorders in the joints. If there is an excess amount of uric acid in the body, the formation of kidney stones and the deposition of salts in articular cartilage and other tissues, including the skin, are possible. Such deposits can be felt in the form of small nodules, which are called gouty bumps. Nodules are usually found in people who have had gout for 10 years or more.
The development of acute gout is facilitated by the use of alcohol, aspirin, diuretics, as well as severe stress - both physical and emotional.
Symptoms of gout: An acute attack of gout usually develops suddenly. In addition to intense pain in the joint, a number of other symptoms are noted: redness of the skin, swelling and increased temperature in the joint area. The general temperature may also increase. Fatigue and headaches appear.
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Gout pain can be debilitating, so using natural gout remedies can help provide significant relief. Gout is a condition characterized by an increase in uric acid. Uric acid results from the breakdown of purines, which occur naturally in the human body and also in food.
Typically, uric acid leaves the body through the kidneys and urine, but too much uric acid can crystallize and surround joints and tissue. This crystallization leads to pain and swelling and can make it difficult to walk or even wear shoes.
Symptoms of gout include joint pain, discomfort, inflammation, redness and limited range of motion. For example, eating foods high in uric acid—red meat—can increase your risk of developing the syndrome, along with obesity, medical conditions such as high blood pressure, family history, surgery and trauma.
If you're living with gout and looking for help with gout pain, here are 19 natural remedies for gout pain relief. Gout during pregnancy.
Use of Ice: Whenever we encounter an injury, we are advised to apply ice. Ice constricts blood vessels, which in turn reduces swelling. Additionally, reducing blood flow to the area may help relieve pain.
Rest the joint: Gout pain should be treated as an injured part of the body. The best way to enhance healing is rest, so when you're faced with an attack of gout pain, it's best to rest. Overuse of the joint will only lead to pain and inflammation.
Drink plenty of fluids: Since uric acid can be eliminated through urination, it is important to drink plenty of water to remove excess uric acid.
Avoid alcohol: Alcohol, particularly beer, is high in purines, which break down into uric acid. Quitting alcohol can reduce the amount of uric acid in the body.
Foods to Eat: Although foods high in purines can make gout worse. There are certain foods that you should eat as natural remedies for gout. Fruits, vegetables, lean meats, and whole grains can help relieve the pain and inflammation associated with gout.
Avoid foods high in purines. This includes fatty fish, organ meats, organ meats and vegetables such as asparagus and spinach. Purines are metabolized into uric acid, so eliminating them from your diet will help prevent gout. Eating foods low in purines will help reduce uric acid levels in the body. The berries are known to help reduce uric acid in the body. Additionally, staying hydrated by drinking enough water will effectively clear uric acid from your kidneys.
Keep your weight at a healthy level: Being overweight not only increases your risk of gout, but can also make gout worse. Losing weight can reduce uric acid in the body and relieve stress on joints. How do fats affect gout?
Create a comfortable environment: Having the affected area trapped in a sock can cause further irritation. You can simply make gout-friendly socks by cutting out an area of the sock to allow the toes—most often the big toe—to “break through.” You may also choose to wear open shoes or sandals if allowed.
Bedding: Because the affected joint is so sensitive, even the light weight of bedding can cause pain. Keep your sheet at calf or ankle level so that your leg can be exposed.
Keep the affected area as open as possible, without wearing closed shoes or socks for long periods of time.
Elevate your leg: When blood flows into a certain area, it can cause swelling and pain. Elevating the affected leg may help relieve some of the swelling.
Take a cane: Since you don't want to add unnecessary pressure to your joints, using a cane may be ideal.
Apple cider vinegar: A common natural remedy used by patients for gout. Take it as soon as you feel a gout attack coming on, it may help relieve joint pain. It helps your body become more alkaline with the acidity of apple cider vinegar. You can also consume it by adding one to two tablespoons to a glass of water and drinking it two to three times a day. What are the causes of gout?
Baking Soda: A commonly used ingredient in baking, this item is also included in natural gout remedies. It works by making your body more alkaline, helping relieve gout symptoms. Most people who use baking soda consume half a teaspoon in a glass of water about six times a day to get the best results. However, it is recommended that those who suffer from high blood pressure limit their consumption of baking soda as it is very high in sodium.
Cherries: An effective food for reducing uric acid levels due to their high antioxidant properties. A study of 600 gout patients found that eating half a cup of cherries every day, which equals 10 to 12 cherries, resulted in a 35 percent reduction in the risk of recurrent gout attacks. Eating two to three servings of cherries further reduced this risk to 50 percent. If you don't like the taste of cherries, there are additives.
Epsom salts: Commonly added to baths, Epsom salts can also help relieve gout pain. This is thanks to its high magnesium content, which helps in muscle relaxation and pain relief. For best results, add one to two cups of Epsom salts to your bath and soak the affected joint or entire body for at least 30 minutes.
Activated Charcoal: A common emergency aid used to prevent drug overdose or poisoning, activated charcoal can also be found in tablet form at your local pharmacy. It helps absorb uric acid, reducing the symptoms of gout. You can also use it mixed with charcoal in a bath or make a paste and apply it to the affected joint.
Lemon juice: Helps alkalize the body by reducing the amount of acid. Lemon juice can be mixed with half a teaspoon of baking soda or just water to get its effect.
If the pain is unbearable or persistent, you can talk to your doctor about specific medications to better treat your gout. Essentially, simple lifestyle changes should be able to relieve the pain caused by gout. See above for natural remedies for gout. How to recognize gout?
An increase in the level of uric acid in the body due to impaired purine metabolism leads to the deposition of salts in the joints. As a rule, this causes inflammation in them, frequent unbearable and sudden pain. This disease is called gout.
Without competent and effective treatment, the frequency and duration of attacks progress. In medicine, various non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are most often used, which relieve signs of joint inflammation, but have a negative effect on the body. There is also a more gentle treatment - folk remedies for gout. However, before you start using such recipes, you should adjust your diet and exclude from it all foods that contain the highest amount of purines. A detailed diet is described in this material on our website.
There are many of them in fatty fish and meat, herring roe, spinach, mushrooms, coffee and chocolate. Alcohol and salt delay the removal of uric acid salts. Treatment of gout with traditional methods is aimed at reducing uric acid levels, relieving joint pain, and resolving salt build-ups. What are these recipes? Let's get to know them.
1. Treatment of inflammation during attacks with shells from pine nuts has long been known. To do this, you should prepare a unique tincture at home. A dark glass bottle is filled almost to the top of the shell and filled with alcohol up to the cork.
Place the product in a dark place for a month. Take the drug: one teaspoon. For severe pain, the tincture can be consumed repeatedly. This elixir also helps with arthrosis, osteochondrosis, and gastritis of the stomach.
2. Effective treatment with the help of a medicinal plant – red madder. Roots will be required. To prepare the daily dose, take one teaspoon of crushed raw materials, pour a glass of boiling water, infuse it or keep it in a steam bath for several minutes. Take half a glass.
3. Compresses made from grated black radish on a sore joint have a good therapeutic effect.
Ridding the body of excess uric acid and preventing its excessive formation are the goals that gout therapy must achieve. Traditional medicine offers quite simple but effective ways for this: normalize the diet, increase physical activity, balance the drinking regime.
Active removal of uric acid is achieved by taking weakly diuretic teas, for example, cranberry. But there is no need to abuse this remedy, because at the same time the body loses other important microelements. The use of essential oils and irritants relieves pain and improves local blood flow, however, gout requires complex therapy, which can only be prescribed by a doctor.
4. To prepare this product you will need onions (400 g), garlic (400 g), honey (1 l) and cranberries (0.5 kg). Next, grind the vegetables and berries until mushy and place the mixture in a tightly closed container in a dark place for a day.
Then you need to add honey to this mixture and mix. The medicine is ready. Take 1 teaspoon before meals. For severe pain, it is recommended to increase the daily intake to five doses.
5. Gout can be treated with a simple home remedy. Pass through a meat grinder: five lemons, in which the seeds must first be removed, and four medium-sized heads of garlic without husks.
The resulting composition is poured with boiling water in a volume of 1.5 liters. Mix everything thoroughly. Let it brew and strain through a fine sieve. Take two tablespoons before meals once a day.
6. For symptoms of painful “bones,” it is recommended to drink quinoa tea.
7. It is useful to drink lingonberry leaf tea for inflammation of the joints. Chamomile, raspberry leaf, dandelion root and primrose herb are often added to such a drink to enhance the healing effect.
8. The following folk remedy is known to relieve pain. Half of the onion is generously smeared with tar and applied to the site of inflammation of the joint during gout.
9. Use camphor oil, ammonia (ammonia) and iodine. They are mixed in a ratio of 2:2:1. This product is used to rub sore spots and make lotions.
10. Compresses made from eucalyptus oil give good results in treatment. Also, ointment made from sweet clover flowers helps just as much. To prepare it you will need a little of the plant, ground into powder, namely 2 tablespoons, which are mixed with Vaseline (50 g). This product is used to lubricate sore joints due to gout.
11. A very unusual folk method of treatment - fish. To do this, take a fillet of any fish and use it as a compress, that is, apply it to an inflamed, sore joint. Be sure to wrap the top with cellophane film and put on a sock. Keep this compress all night. The optimal course of treatment is usually 7 days.
12. Activated charcoal will help relieve debilitating pain. Such a remedy is being prepared. Add a little water and flaxseed to half a glass of powdered charcoal. Mix everything thoroughly. The mixture should be as thick as sour cream. Then the sore joint is lubricated with it and a cellophane film is applied. Put the sock on and keep it on until the morning.
13. Gouty joint pain is treated with specially prepared onion “soup”. To do this, three onions with husks are first poured with hot boiling water (1 liter) and put on fire. Cook this “soup” until the onion is boiled. Then it is filtered and used internally.
Drink a full glass. Can be taken several times a day. After 10 days, stop taking the “soup” and take a week’s break.
By the way, if gout is not treated, the kidneys and bladder suffer from intense accumulation of uric acid, stones form, and general well-being and health worsen even more. The invaluable knowledge of ancient healers and modern technologies in medicine will help overcome this disease. Watch your diet and avoid exacerbation of the disease.
Gout is a disease known to mankind since the time of Hippocrates. “A foot in a trap” - this is exactly what the progenitor of medicine said about its manifestations. Pain syndrome, characteristic changes in joints, kidney damage - the disease brings suffering and significantly changes the usual way of life. For patients who are worried about gout, herbal treatment makes it possible to alleviate its clinical manifestations. It is better to use traditional medicine in combination with a proper diet and pharmacological intermediaries.
In the fight against gout, herbs are used that affect the basic mechanisms of the disease. Therapeutic drugs remove excess uric acid from the body, normalize metabolic processes and relieve inflammation.
Based on the centuries-old experience of herbalists, traditional medicine successfully uses the healing properties of plants. They are used to make decoctions and tinctures, the treatment of which requires long-term use to achieve the desired result - the minimum period of therapy is one month.
The most effective herbal teas for the treatment of gout combine and enhance the effects of different plants, influencing all stages of the development of the disease. Multicomponent recipes are successfully used both during exacerbation of gout and between attacks.
Leave a tablespoon of a mixture of equal parts of linden flowers, elderberry, St. John's wort and golden rod for 20 minutes in a glass of boiling water. Drink 250 ml one hour after meals twice a day.
Mix violet herb, burdock and wheatgrass roots, string herb and veronica in a ratio of 6:5:4:4:4. Boil the mixture for a quarter of an hour (40 grams per liter of water). Drink the strained broth 3 times a day, a glass after meals.
Make a mixture of crushed willow bark, buckthorn and birch leaves (5:1:4), boil 2 tablespoons in 2 glasses of water for 10 minutes. Take when infused, according to? glass half an hour after meals three times a day.
External treatment of gout with herbs is also widely used; recipes for ointments, rubs, baths or general baths for this purpose are simple and accessible. Each method is used depending on the indications and the possibility of its implementation.
During the period of exacerbation of gout, the use of the following rubbing tinctures is effective:
Medicinal herbal ointments help resolve gouty bumps and reduce the symptoms of inflammation. The most commonly used recipes are:
Treatment with ointments is carried out until significant relief of the condition (at least 10 days).
General and local baths with medicinal herbs are used both during remission and during exacerbation of the disease. They relieve inflammation, pain and swelling, improve metabolism and blood supply in the sore joint and in the body as a whole, and have a calming and restorative effect.
General baths should be taken at a temperature of 36–38 degrees for about 15 minutes. After the procedure, you need to lie down for an hour, covered with a warm blanket. The maximum therapeutic effect is achieved by a course of 10-12 baths.
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Local baths have pronounced anti-inflammatory properties, so they are used mainly in the acute period of gouty arthritis.
The best therapeutic effect for gout is observed when combining different methods of using herbs: oral administration, general baths, rubbing the affected joints. To prevent undesirable consequences of alternative medicine, it is necessary to regularly consult a doctor and undergo additional examinations.
Gout is a disease caused by a violation of purine metabolism in the body, which leads to an increase in uric acid in the blood. As a result of this, its crystals are deposited in tissues, most often near joints, with limited movement in them. The kidneys are often affected. The main symptoms are joint pain, but this is not so much a joint disease as a metabolic disease. The body either produces excess uric acid or does not remove the resulting acid well. Uric acid salts are breakdown products of proteins. Therefore, diet is very important in treatment.
Most often, a congenital metabolic disorder or malnutrition, which also leads to metabolic disorders. Gout can be caused by lead poisoning, a side effect of certain medications that increase uric acid levels in the blood.
Mostly people aged 45-60 years get sick. Often the disease develops against the background of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and atherosclerosis.
An attack is an inflammation of a joint, accompanied by very severe pain.
Symptoms of a gout attack
The attack lasts from several hours to several days, after which the pain
disappears, joint function is restored.
The pain during an attack can be so severe that it is not only impossible to put on shoes, but you cannot even cover the sore joint with a sheet - the slightest touch causes unbearable pain.
Some patients may confuse an attack of gout with an abscess, because there are similar symptoms - the skin quickly turns purple, heats up, and severe pain occurs.
Causes of a gout attack.
An attack can be triggered by:
Often a sick person, after an evening feast, eating fatty meat food and drinking alcohol, wakes up in the morning with an attack of gout. The reason is that if you don’t diet, the level of uric acid in the blood increases sharply, and alcohol slows down the excretion of uric acid by the kidneys.
When hypothermia occurs, especially in the legs, uric acid, circulating in the blood as a solution, begins to crystallize, most of all in the place that is most chilled.
The attack begins with acute pain.
At first, attacks occur 2-3 times a year and do not last long, then they become more frequent. Each time the pain and duration increase. The number of joints affected by the disease increases. First of all, the joints of the toes are affected, then the inflammation can spread to the joints of the shins and knees.
After the attack, the patient feels completely healthy, but treatment must begin after the first attack, without waiting for irreversible changes in the joints and kidneys. Because after the first attack, despite the patient’s good health, magnetic resonance imaging shows that tiny tophi fall out in the aorta, coronary vessels, and other organs and tissues, which increase over time. The disease becomes chronic and becomes a trigger for the development of atherosclerosis, diabetes, and other diseases that progress very quickly against the background of gout.
In the treatment of gout, drugs are used that prevent the formation of uric acid or accelerate its release from the body. Also, for the treatment of this disease, a diet with reduced calorie content and limited purines is important. Alcohol, meat broths, and offal are excluded from the diet.
This disease is very serious, but it is never too late to start treating it, unlike other systemic chronic diseases. It responds well to treatment with folk remedies. If a person begins to strictly control himself in nutrition and adhere to a low-purine diet, the tophi will begin to disappear and the attacks will stop.
During treatment, it is necessary to constantly monitor uric acid levels and follow a diet.
Fried meat, canned meat and fish, meat and fish broths, smoked meats, liver, kidneys, vinegar, hot seasonings, cocoa, chocolate, alcoholic drinks, carbonated drinks.
salt, sugar, sausages, pickles, boiled fish and meat, mushrooms, lard, legumes, sorrel, spinach, cauliflower, celery, radishes, strong tea and coffee.
Milk, dairy and lactic acid products, potatoes, bread, cereals, raw vegetables, berries and fruits, especially apples, carrots, strawberries, currants.
Depending on your diet, a new attack of gout may take several weeks, months or years to develop.
Since gout is associated with metabolic disorders (metabolism of purines, from which uric acid salts are released) and occurs with exacerbations in the form of attacks, treatment of the disease with folk remedies is divided into two stages:
If the disease is advanced and growths on the joints (tophi) have appeared, then there are many folk remedies that help in resolving the growths and relieving pain.
Recipes from the newspaper “Vestnik ZOZH”
These folk remedies help reduce the level of uric acid in the blood, avoid attacks, and remove growths on the joints.
Home treatment for gout with pine nut shells
Pour the dried pine nut shells into a dark glass bottle up to the hanger, and fill it with alcohol or vodka until the cork stops. Leave for 10 days, shaking daily. Take 1 tsp. before meals 3-4 times a day, and if severe pain occurs up to 5 times. Pine nut tincture helps with all joint diseases, osteochondrosis, stomach diseases, and hemorrhoids. (recipe from Healthy Lifestyle 2012, No. 6, p. 9)
If you are worried about gout pain in your big toe, then iodine will help.
Apply liberally to the sore spot in 2-3 doses, preferably at night. The woman even managed to avoid surgery. In addition, you need to walk a lot, at least 3-5 km a day. (HLS 2012, No. 2, p. 41)
Folk treatment with clay
The clay is kneaded like dough, rolled into a flat cake and applied to the sore spot overnight. 6-8 procedures are enough and the disease will not bother you. (recipe from the newspaper Bulletin of Healthy Lifestyle 2012, No. 2, p. 41)
How to treat gout with birch buds or leaves at home.
Birch in all its forms is often and successfully used.
Infusion: pour 10 g of birch buds with 2 glasses of water and boil for 15 minutes, wrap, leave for 1 hour. Take 1/4 cup 4 times a day 1 hour after meals.
Or 15 g of birch leaves pour 1 tbsp. boiling water, leave for 2-3 hours. Take 1/2 cup 3 times a day.
It is also useful to drink fresh birch sap 1 glass 3 times a day.
Birch bud ointment helps relieve joint pain and dissolve gouty nodes. To prepare the ointment, you need to grind 1 cup of birch buds into powder (if they are dry) or grind into pulp (if they are fresh) and grind with 0.5 kg of fresh interior fat. In a clay pot, this mixture is simmered in the oven for 3 hours every day. Only 7 days. If there is no oven, use a water bath. Rub into joints 2 times a day. This is a very wonderful ointment, it also helps with rheumatism and almost all skin diseases (dermatoses, bedsores, ulcers, lichen, eczema) (2002, No. 21, p. 23)
An infusion of burdock root helps with metabolic disorders, gout, osteochondrosis, urolithiasis and cholelithiasis. To prepare the infusion at home, you need to take 2 tbsp. l. dry crushed burdock root and pour three glasses of water at room temperature, leave for 2-3 hours, then boil for 15 minutes. Drink 1/2 cup warm 3 times a day after meals. (2011, no. 6, p. 35)
Here is another folk remedy made from burdock , which is good for treating joints and dissolving stones in the gall and bladder. Grind young burdock leaves in a meat grinder to make 0.5 liters. pulp, add 500 g of honey and 500 g of vodka, mix well, take 1 tbsp. l. 3 times a day on an empty stomach. Store in a dark cupboard, but not in the refrigerator. (recipe from Healthy Lifestyle 2009, No. 11, p. 32)
From the advice of the healer Ustinya . If you have gout on your leg, compresses made from burdock root decoction will help. 1 tbsp. l. dry crushed roots are boiled in 1 tbsp. water for 10 minutes, leave for 40 minutes. A cloth or gauze in several layers should be moistened in this decoction and applied to the sore joint. Wrap with cotton wool or a warm scarf overnight. After each procedure, the bandage must be washed with soap or replaced with a new one. 25-30 such procedures and the disease goes away. Burdock root infusion can also be used internally. (2001, no. 14, pp. 16-17)
At the age of 27, a woman’s fingers became swollen and deformed. There was unbearable pain, especially at night. After all the tests, the doctor said that it was gout, it was difficult to treat and I had to follow a diet and take allopurinol tablets for the rest of my life. The patient was not satisfied with this, and she began to look for folk remedies for treating gout. The magazine “Science and Life” wrote that black currant removes uric acid from the body. To do this, leaves and young twigs should be brewed and drunk instead of tea. The woman began to do this, brewed currant leaves and twigs in a thermos, sometimes added a leaf of mint or lemon balm, and drank a mug 3-4 times a day. Very soon all the bumps disappeared, and even earlier the pain and inflammation of the joints went away. (recipe from the newspaper Bulletin of Healthy Lifestyle 2011, No. 24, p. 10)
An infusion of black currant leaves reduces blood pressure and tones the cardiovascular system, treats kidney and bladder diseases. (2011, no. 24, p. 15)
How to treat gout with apple juice
The man had gout and urolithiasis; there were often exacerbations with severe pain. Freshly squeezed green apple juice helped cure the disease. He drank it on an empty stomach, 1 glass in the morning. 30 minutes later I had breakfast. I drank apple juice every day. Six months later I felt better. Over the past three years, there has not been a single attack. In addition, the blood pressure returned to normal. (2010, no. 6, p. 31)
Traditional treatment with wheatgrass.
4 tbsp. l. wheatgrass root in 2 cups of boiling water, leave for 12 hours. Drink half a glass 4 times a day. This infusion dissolves kidney stones and deposits on joints (2009, No. 6, p. 17)
Compresses - salt + soda + potassium permanganate
The woman managed to get rid of the disease using the following folk remedy: 2 tbsp. l. salt, 2 tbsp. l. soda, mix a few crystals of potassium permanganate with 2-3 tbsp. l. water to make a paste. Place the mass on a bandage and tie it to the sore joint. Secure the compress with a bandage, do not change the bandage for 3 days, then make a new compress. (HLS 2009, No. 6, p. 28, 2004 No. 15, p. 25)
Treatment with elecampane baths at home
1 tbsp. l. Pour 1 cup of boiling water over elecampane roots and leave. Add the infusion to the foot bath. Soak your feet before bed for 12 days in a row. The attacks will subside. (HLS 2009, No. 12 p. 30-31)
You need to brew strong Ceylon tea and make a compress from this tea at night. And in the morning, after removing the compress, tap the bones with a wooden spoon. 3-4 procedures will be required. The woman was treated with this method - on the first day, when tapping her leg, there was severe pain, she simply reduced the force of the blow. On the second day I hit her harder - the pain was weaker. On the third day I no longer felt any pain. I did the procedure for the fourth time, and now I’ve been healthy for 4 years. (2007, No. 7 p. 30)
Gout can be cured with ASD-2. This drug should be taken according to the general regimen. In addition, make compresses on the sore joint, just like for skin diseases, but also use the ASD-2 fraction (and not ASD-1 as for skin diseases). (2007, No. 9 p. 7, 2006, No. 14, p. 8, )
Ointment for resolving growths on joints
Pour 1 tbsp into a 100 gram jar. l.: camphor oil, ammonia, turpentine, vinegar 9%, fill the jar to the top with melted fat (pork, goose, etc.). When cooling, this mixture is divided into 2 fractions, so before use it must be heated in a water bath and shaken. Rub the resulting emulsion into the sore joint, then moisten a cloth with this mixture and make a compress on the sore joint, top with a film, cotton wool and a bandage. Within a month and a half of daily compresses, the growths on the joints dissolved (From the practice of Kyiv herbalist V. Kupchin. (Healthy Lifestyle 2007, No. 21 p. 14)
From a conversation with academician of the RA med. Sciences, Chief Researcher of the Institute of Rheumatology V. A. Nasonova
It is necessary to treat the disease with folk remedies in three ways: take baths, drink infusions of medicinal herbs, do exercises and rubbing. Only then will the disease reverse itself.
Of all the folk remedies, the most powerful and radical is the tincture of the root of the wrestler. You need to take 100 g of roots, pour a liter of vodka or 60% alcohol. Infuse in a warm place for three days, the tincture should become the color of strong tea. The patient can use no more than 1 tsp for rubbing. tinctures. When rubbing this remedy, blood circulation sharply increases, the patient immediately feels a strong heartbeat. If gout is on the legs and arms, then only one arm or leg should be treated with this tincture at a time, the next day - the other limb, etc. Rub the tincture dry overnight, then wrap the affected joint in flannel and woolen material. In the morning, remove the bandage and 2 hours later quickly wipe your leg with a rag soaked in cold water and wrung out well.
Rub the tincture in every day for 4-5 weeks before going to bed. The patient needs to drink 2-3 liters of fluid per day. (Bulletin of Healthy Lifestyle 2006, No. 22 p. 6-7)
From a conversation with Dr. Natalya Lyubimova
Herbs to treat gout at home
Herbal infusions and vegetable juices can successfully treat the disease at home.
Alkalinize urine: pumpkin, zucchini, cucumber juice.
Increase the solubility of uric acid salts: infusions and decoctions of barberry roots, immortelle herbs, lingonberries, strawberries, bearberries
Inhibits the reabsorption of salts in the intestines: infusions of blueberries, astragalus, horsetail herbs
Inhibits the formation of uric acid crystals: infusions of corn silk and Chinese lemongrass.
Here is an effective collection of herbs that acts in several directions at once: mix strawberry leaves, birch leaves, corn silk, nettle leaves, and agrimony grass. 1 tsp. collection, pour 1 cup of boiling water, leave for 30 minutes. Take 1/3 cup three times a day. If you take this collection for 1.5-2 months, the disease gout will begin to recede (2004, No. 6, pp. 8-9).
Recipe for gout and bumps on the leg - triple cologne + ammonia + iodine
A woman suffered from gouty pain in her foot for 7 years; a painful lump formed near her big toe. Friends advised her to use a folk recipe: 10 tbsp. l. “Triple” cologne, 10 tbsp. l. ammonia and 10 tbsp. l. Pour iodine into a bottle and mix. Infuse for a day. Lubricate the bump every day 2-3 times a day. She was treated with this remedy for six months. The pain went away, the lump on my leg disappeared. (Bulletin of Healthy Lifestyle 2005, No. 21 p. 12, 2004, No. 1, p. 27).
Rinse 100 g of Adam's root, grate it, pour in 200 g of vodka. Leave for 1 day and rub into the sore joint every other day. (Bulletin of Healthy Lifestyle 2004, No. 15 p. 16. From the recipes of the healer Golyuk).
Flax seed to reduce uric acid levels and against urolithiasis
2 tsp. seeds, pour 300 g of water and cook over low heat for 15 minutes. Leave for 10 minutes, pour into a glass bottle, close tightly and shake the broth for 5 minutes. Strain, take 1 tbsp. l. 4-5 times a day. (2004, no. 4 p. 23).
Outside of attacks, baths are good: radon, hydrogen sulfide, sodium chloride. Radon baths work best because they affect the metabolism of purines and promote the removal of uric acid salts. There are radon baths in the resorts of Pyatigorsk, Essentuki, and Tskhaltubo. The course includes 12-14 baths every other day. Hydrogen sulfide baths and therapeutic mud, which are available in Sochi, Zheleznovodsk, Saki, Staraya Russa, and Sestroretsk, are also effective.
Sodium chloride baths can be prepared at home: take 1.5-2 kg of salt per bath, dissolve it in water at 37-38 degrees. Stay time – 20 minutes, course – 10-15 procedures. These baths cannot be used for cardiovascular diseases. . (2004, no. 6 pp. 8-9).
Treatment with leeks and butter
Leeks are good at removing salts from joints and preventing their deposition. It is often called the “anti-gout onion.” The man began to grow this leek and used it constantly. Soon I forgot about the gouty pain in the joints and the crunching in the joints. (2002, No. 17 p. 20). Boletus mushrooms have the same effect (2002, No. 19, p. 19).
Sorrel, which contains oxalic acid and dissolves uric acid salts in the joints, helps cure the disease. Sorrel cannot be boiled, it must be eaten raw - chew several leaves a day, preferably more. At the very beginning of treatment, the diseased bones will itch and ache a little, and then the pain quickly passes, the salts dissolve, and the disease recedes. (2001, No. 6 p. 17).
Activated carbon is of plant origin and is not soluble in any media. It is completely eliminated from the body in 24-28 hours along with feces. Coal absorbs carcinogenic and toxic substances from the body. It reduces cholesterol levels and promotes weight loss. Coal consumption improves the general condition of gout , diabetes, psoriasis, atherosclerosis, and stops the formation of stones in the gall bladder and kidneys.
Take activated carbon for two weeks, 3-5 tablets 3 times a day, an hour after meals. The course is conducted 2-3 times a year. (2001, No. 19 p. 11).
Kerosene ointment
The ointment is prepared from 50 g of kerosene, 50 g of sunflower oil, 30 g of laundry soap and less than a teaspoon of soda. Rub the sore spot on the leg dry. (2001, no. 23 p. 19).
Ointment for gout pain - butter + alcohol
The woman suffered from gouty pain for many years. She was able to get rid of severe pain with the help of a folk remedy found in an old book. Take butter (preferably homemade) and alcohol, ratio 1:1. Heat the oil in a frying pan or saucepan until foam appears, remove from heat, pour in alcohol and set it on fire. The flame will be high, you need to be careful and protect your face. When the flame goes out, the ointment is ready. Keep refrigerated. It is necessary to rub the ointment into the sore joint in a warm place - in front of a stove, oven or heater. No need to wrap it up. After using this recipe, attacks of gout on her leg have not bothered her for 20 years. (HLS 2005, No. 2 p. 30). This same folk remedy is also recommended by Dr. Lyubimova in the “Bulletin of Healthy Lifestyle” for 2005, No. 21 p. 12
These folk remedies will help quickly relieve pain. The main thing is to provide rest to the sore joint and “flush” uric acid from the body by drinking plenty of fluids.
During an attack of gout, willow bark is used to relieve joint pain.
1 tbsp. l. Pour a glass of boiling water over chopped white willow bark and leave for 1 hour. Take 1/4 cup 4 times a day (2012, No. 1, p. 30, 2001, No. 15, p. 21)
From a conversation with Dr. med. Sciences, Kadykov A. S.
When treating gout, you must strictly adhere to the diet. During attacks, you can apply a leaf of burdock or cabbage .
Warm baths from nettle , or even better from its roots, relieve pain well. 8 tbsp. l. Bring 3 liters of water to a boil and leave. Keep your hands or feet in the warm solution for 15-20 minutes, without wiping, wrap in a warm diaper. A course of 20-25 procedures will help stop the progression of the disease and delay a new attack. It is useful to reinforce the baths by taking nettle decoction internally – 2 tbsp. l. 0.5 liters of boiling water is a daily dose, drink in 4-6 doses.
Ginger root is good for reducing uric acid levels in the blood: grate 2 tbsp. l. ginger, pour 1 liter of boiling water into a thermos, throw in 1 bag of green tea, leave for 30 minutes. Drink with honey instead of tea. Ginger root is part of the drug Urisan, prescribed to reduce uric acid levels. (2011, no. 14, pp. 6-7)
Fly agaric ointment relieves pain well. At the bottom of the pan you need to put 200 g of chopped interior fat, add 50 g of spruce or pine resin, simmer until all the fat is rendered, then remove the resulting cracklings with a slotted spoon. Add 100 g of fly agarics ground into powder and 30 g of rye flour to the slightly cooled fat. This folk remedy can be stored in the refrigerator for 2 years.
Method of use: Warm up the sore joint with a massage with alcohol tincture of cinquefoil or fly agaric (100 g of fresh fly agaric per 100 g of vodka, infuse for less than 30 days). Then rub in the “mushroom fat” for 3-5 minutes, cover with a warm cloth and go to bed. Course - 10-15 nightly procedures. After a week's break, the course can be repeated to consolidate the result. The same folk remedy can cure arthritis, rheumatism, osteochondrosis and other diseases. The woman had nodules on her thyroid gland; after rubbing in fly agaric ointment, they resolved (2010, no. 20, pp. 39-40)
Traditional treatment with horseradish or radish
Place horseradish or radish gruel on the sore joint, wrap it with burdock or coltsfoot leaves, and secure with a bandage. Gout pain on the leg goes away quickly. Under such a compress, uric acid salts dissolve and tophi decrease. (2009, no. 6, p. 17)
How to relieve a gout attack with copper wire
The Healthy Lifestyle reader has been sick for 7 years. After a sleepless night during the attack, he re-read all the newspapers with folk recipes. I found an article that copper is good for relieving joint pain. The man wrapped his big toe and entire foot with copper wire, which he took from two-wire telephone wiring. After half an hour the pain subsided, and after an hour it completely disappeared. On the second day, the swelling subsided, the man was able to put on his boots and go to work without feeling pain in his leg. Previously, I couldn’t walk normally for months, although I took pills, gave injections, used ointments, and went to physical therapy. (2009, no. 6, p. 28, )
Comfrey is one of the best folk remedies for treating joints.
An ointment is made from comfrey: 2 parts of grated fresh root are mixed with 4 parts of pork fat and 1 part of dimexide (sold in a pharmacy). Gout on the leg is rubbed or lubricated with this ointment, covered with compress paper, and insulated with woolen cloth for 4-5 hours. This treatment is carried out every day until a noticeable result is obtained, but not less than 10 days (2008, No. 14 p. 28, )
During an exacerbation of the disease, when the level of uric acid in the blood rises sharply, treatment with cranberry juice will help. You should drink 100 g of juice 3 times a day, diluted half with water. Make a compress from cranberry pomace on a joint affected by gout: mix the pomace with potato starch 1:1, grease with rich cream and apply the cranberry mixture, wrap with compress paper and put on socks (2003, No. 20 p. 20-21).
How to relieve a gout attack with lilac ointment
1 tbsp. l. Grind lilac flowers with 1 tbsp. l. butter. During an attack, apply a compress with this ointment. Between attacks, rub the sore joint with this ointment. (2005, no. 21 p. 12).
From a conversation with academician of the RA med. Sciences, chief researcher at the Institute of Rheumatology V. A. Nasonova.
The main medicine for the treatment of gout is allopurinol, but it should not be used during an attack - this drug can only increase the intensity and duration of the attack.
At home, to relieve pain, you need to provide rest to the sore joint and begin to “wash out” uric acid from the body - drink more water, 1.5-2 liters a day, but better herbal tea, rosehip infusion, lingonberry juice without sugar.
If the joint can be touched, apply an ice pack to the sore spot for no more than 10 minutes. Then apply cabbage leaves or a cloth bag with hot salt.
If the pain does not calm down, then you should prepare an ointment: 100 g of yogurt or kefir. 100 g mashed rye bread. 0.5 tsp. soda Place the ointment on a bandage and apply it to the sore joint. (2006, No. 22 pp. 6-7)
Compress of honey, aspirin and yogurt For acute pain, this folk remedy will help: apply a thin layer of honey to the joint, cover with 4 crushed aspirin tablets, and put a cloth soaked in cold yogurt or cottage cheese on top. When it warms up, change the compress. If you don’t have money for such a compress, then moisten the problem area on your leg with table vinegar diluted with water in a ratio of 1:3
Juniper drink. Prepare an infusion – 2 tsp. juniper berries in 1 glass of boiling water, leave and drink at the beginning of an attack. It's good to wrap yourself up for sweating. After sweating, change into dry clothes. After 6 hours, drink another glass of drink. Do this until the attack stops. In the future, simply take 10 juniper berries, simply chewing and swallowing, 2-5 times a day. Juniper berries are also good for treating kidney diseases.
Wormwood seed. To prevent the attack from recurring as long as possible, take the seed of cypress wormwood. Previously, it was always sold at the pharmacy. 1 tsp. Boil the seeds in a glass of milk. Drink this drink: half a glass in the morning, half a glass in the evening. It will take a long time, two years. But this folk remedy will greatly ease suffering. If the gout on the leg ever moves, after many years, it will only timidly and immediately subside.
A decoction of oat stalks in milky ripeness or a decoction of oat grains (2 kg of grains per 6 liters of water, simmer for 5 hours) will help reduce the level of uric acid and maintain it in a normal state. It is also useful to use an infusion of cinquefoil grass, an infusion of meadowsweet flowers or roots, an infusion of wheatgrass roots, an infusion of knotweed herb (Bulletin of Healthy Lifestyle 2004, No. 15 pp. 22-23. From recipes of conversations with healer Clara Doronina).