Many people who have a history of gout are concerned about the question of how to relieve pain? This is not easy with gout. The article describes in detail several tips on how to relieve acute gout pain.
Gout is an inflammation of the joints (arthritis) resulting from the deposition of uric acid salts. This disease usually affects people aged 35 to 55 years.
But it should be remembered that uric acid accumulates in the body not only with gout, but also with diseases such as blood diseases, kidney disease, and tumors.
Therefore, we can distinguish 3 most basic elements by which we can say that this disease is gout. So, as mentioned above, this is the accumulation of uric acid salts in the body. It is also an instant deposition of salts in tissues and organs; formation of tophi (“salt cones”) in the joint area.
The disease is accompanied by a clear clinical picture, namely, severe acute pain occurs, both at rest and during movement, mainly in the area of the damaged joint. This condition is commonly called an acute attack of gout. If you do not take certain medications, this condition can last from several days to several weeks. The onset of pain usually begins in the evening and at night. There is increased sensitivity in the area of the damaged joint.
Here the question immediately arises, how to relieve pain from gout? What do I need to do? Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are used to relieve acute pain. Such drugs have analgesic, anti-inflammatory and antipyretic effects.
These include: Naproxen, Indomethacin, Ketoprofen, etc. How to use the drugs is written in the instructions for use. But it is best to discuss the dosage of these medications with your doctor in advance.
Using Dimexide and Ketonal you can make a pain-relieving compress. Dimexide is an anti-inflammatory drug that is used strictly for topical use.
To prepare a compress, you need to mix equal amounts of warm water and Dimexide solution (about 30 ml of each substance). Add 1 ml of Ketonal to the prepared mixture. As soon as the solution is ready, gauze folded in several layers must be thoroughly moistened in the prepared substance.
Then the gauze should be slightly squeezed out and applied to the affected joint. It is advisable to put oilcloth or a plastic bag on top of the gauze, on top of which you need to tie a woolen scarf, or put on a warm sock. It is advisable to keep the compress for no more than 30 minutes, otherwise a burn may occur.
Colchicine is also used to relieve acute pain from gout. So, what is this “miracle” drug?
Colchicine is a drug that actively affects the metabolism of uric acid. But, unfortunately, this drug is not suitable for everyone, as it has a lot of side effects. Therefore, it should be used strictly under the supervision of a doctor.
As a rule, for a “gout attack” the drug is prescribed half a milligram every hour. Colchicine is immediately discontinued if side effects occur or if there is no positive effect. The medicine is available in ampoule and tablet form.
Acute gouty pain also cannot be treated without hormones. Basically, they are used only when all other methods do not give the desired result. Hormone therapy is prescribed in courses and is performed only in the presence of a doctor.
Warm baths of nettle roots or leaves will help relieve acute pain. To do this, you need to add 9 tablespoons of nettle to three liters of water. The mixture should be boiled, then left for 2 hours. The damaged limb is placed in this decoction for 25-30 minutes. After which it should be wrapped in a warm diaper (blanket). It is advisable to perform the procedure at least 30 times.
Now we know how to relieve acute pain from gout. Please note that self-medication is strictly prohibited. The dosage of drugs is prescribed individually, and only by a doctor!
A gout attack can occur at any time of the day. If you start to feel itching, burning, or tingling, then expect a gout attack soon. The listed symptoms appear 2 hours before the attack. Each person develops gout individually. How to get rid of an attack? What do you need to do for this?
During an attack, the person becomes very red, then the joint swells, after which unbearable pain appears. Many believe that gout can only affect the lower extremities, most often the big toe - this is not necessary. Sometimes pain occurs in the elbow, wrist, knees, feet, and also ankles.
The discomfort is very strong, the patient cannot touch the affected area. Some patients note that even a light touch of a blanket or sheet to the inflamed area causes severe pain.
If you have previously consulted your doctor about gout and were prescribed certain medications, be sure to take them according to the prescribed regimen. Often the doctor prescribes non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs:
In some situations, Colchicine, Allopurinol, and Probenecid are prescribed to prevent gout attacks. If the attacks do not go away, do not think that the drugs are ineffective. The first time you take the drug, the attacks continue, and the drug has a certain reaction in the body. After some time you will feel relief.
Sometimes in clinical practice there are cases when a patient takes various medications for preventive purposes and begins to have seizures. In this situation, the patient is prescribed a full examination and, possibly, the drug is replaced with another, more suitable one.
Remember, if you suffer from gout, be sure to increase your fluid intake. Dehydration can lead to frequent gout attacks.
Interesting! Medical scientists conducted a study and noticed that if a person drinks more than 3 liters of purified still water per day, his risk of recurrent gout attacks is reduced by 40%.
Please note that you should not drink coffee, strong tea, or carbonated sweet water - these drinks, on the contrary, aggravate the situation of a patient with gout.
Patients with gout are allowed to eat foods low in purines. When the substance breaks down, it causes a large amount of uric acid to accumulate, which becomes the main cause of gout.
You will have to give up sardines, offal, and anchovies, they contain the highest amount of purines. It is allowed to include in the diet foods that contain a small amount of purines - asparagus, lentils, beans. It is best to consult a specialist about this.
Eat fruits as much as possible; they contain virtually no purines. Fruits enrich the body with various nutrients and complex carbohydrates. For example, citrus fruits (they contain a large amount of vitamin C) even relieve gout attacks. It is also recommended to pay attention to cherry juice or cherries.
When a patient abuses fats and proteins, a large amount of purines accumulates in his body. Refined carbohydrates (pasta, bread) contain virtually no purines, but they lead to excess weight, so you should pay attention to vegetables, oats, potatoes, and beans.
Your diet should include foods that contain a large amount of fatty acids - salmon, tuna, flaxseeds, nuts. Fatty acids can help relieve inflammation. It is recommended to include olive oil in your diet; you can season salads with it and add it to soups.
You should take into account the fact that alcoholic drinks lead to an exacerbation of gout. The drink contains a large amount of purines, beer is especially dangerous for health, it contains yeast.
Drink coffee carefully. Some believe that caffeine improves gout attacks. This is wrong! On the contrary, coffee increases the amount of uric acid. Consult your doctor about how much coffee you can drink per day.
Unpleasant symptoms most often occur in hunters and fishermen. The main reason is severe hypothermia of the legs, as well as eating dense food at night and alcohol abuse. After magnetic resonance imaging, it is clear that after the first attack of gout, crystallization occurs. As a result, if measures are not taken in a timely manner, diabetes mellitus, atherosclerosis and other dangerous diseases may develop.
So, after analyzing all the above information, we can come to the conclusion that it is easier to prevent a gout attack than to get rid of it. To do this, you need to constantly monitor your diet, drink as much water as possible and do not forget to move and walk in the fresh air.
New methods of treating gout are blood purification procedures using special plasmapheresis devices (but this is a rather expensive and reusable procedure).
It is based on a moderate amount of carbohydrates (200-350 g), fats (40-50 g), as well as a reduced amount of proteins (70-80 g - it is better to completely switch to vegetable protein) and of course a decrease (complete exception during an attack) sea salt (5-7 grams), and an increased amount of fluid of at least (2-2.5 liters per day). The amount of food per day should not exceed 1.5-2 kg.
The temperature of the food consumed should be average (hot and cold are not allowed), it is recommended to eat fractionally - in small portions 4 or 5 times a day.
Products that are prohibited for consumption
In cases where a patient has a combination of obesity and gout, limit his consumption of rich baked goods and reduce the amount of cereals, fats, sweets and pure carbohydrates.
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When there is a metabolic disorder that causes an increase in the level of uric acid in the blood, the process of deposition of urates (salts) in tissues, mostly in bones, is activated, which leads to a chronic disease: gout. This disease is also called “bumpy foot”, since uric acid crystals most often deform the joints of the toes: painful bumps grow. Uric acid salts can accumulate in other places, forming tubercles (bumps): in the area of the elbow, hand, foot, and uric acid salts can fall out in the kidneys and other organs and tissues. When urate accumulates in the joints, an inflammatory process occurs, which is the cause of painful attacks in them.
For treatment and to relieve pain from gout , use folk recipes.
1) Pour half a liter of vodka into two tablespoons of mullein flowers, leave in the dark for ten to fifteen days, strain and rub on sore spots.
2) Take 100 grams of millet, grind into flour, add a teaspoon of salt and a tablespoon of brewer's yeast, mix, add a little water to make it like dough. Apply the resulting mass onto a napkin and wrap the sore joint and insulate it. Change the bandage every two hours until the pain subsides, then wash the affected area with warm water.
3) Take 100 grams of bay leaves, a tablespoon of common juniper, a kilogram of rendered goose or badger fat. Chop the juniper needles and bay leaves, melt the fat and mix everything. Lubricate sore joints with this ointment, cover with cellophane and insulate it.
4) During the mushroom season, collect fly agarics, push them tightly into a jar, close the lid and bury them in the ground for a month. In a month, dig it up, you won’t like what you see, and it still has the same smell, but it’s a very good remedy for joints. Make compresses or rub into sore areas.
5) Soak a cotton cloth with fir oil, apply a thin layer of salt and wrap the side where the salt is on the joint and leave it overnight, rinse it off in the morning. Do this for five days, then break for five days.
1) Grind three large peeled heads of garlic and four heads of onions separately to a pulp, mix thoroughly and add 0.5 kilograms of mashed cranberries, mix again, leave for a day in a cool dark place, then add a kilogram of honey. Take fifteen minutes before meals, a teaspoon three times a day.
2) Pour 250 ml of boiling water over 25 grams of black elderberry flowers, close the container with a lid, leave for forty minutes, strain. Take 100 ml infusion fifteen minutes before meals.
3) Take two tablespoons of heart-shaped linden flowers, blood-red hawthorn fruits, blue-headed flowers; five tablespoons of creeping thyme, oregano herb; four tablespoons of rose hips, chop and mix. Pour two tablespoons of the mixture with a liter of boiling water, let it brew well, strain after cooling. Drink a glass of tea three to four times a day.
4) Pour vodka over the crushed pine nuts along with the shells to cover the nuts by five to six centimeters, leave for seven days, strain. Take a tablespoon three times a day for 1.5-2 months.
5) This method of treating gout and arthritis is used in a Japanese clinic: pour very cold water into one container, and put grains of wheat, oats, millet, rye (a little of each grain) into another and pour boiling water over them so that they slightly steam. During the procedure, the grains should be warm, preferably hot (so that the body can tolerate it). Dip your sore hand in cold water for a few seconds and immediately into another container, start kneading the grains and do this while the grains are warm, then wrap your hand in wool to properly warm the joints. Treatment is long-term – 2-3 months. If you have enough patience, then this procedure will not only help relieve gout pain , but also get rid of it completely.
The real trap prepared by gout is that at the initial stage, sometimes for quite a long time, there is an asymptomatic period. And the content of uric acid in the blood already predominates. The first and quite severe attack of gout occurs at the moment when crystals form from uric acid. The attack does not last long, and after it passes the person feels completely healthy, despite the fact that uric acid does not decrease. There are cases when a patient may have only one attack in his entire life.
First of all, gout attacks the joint of the big toe; other joints are affected a little less often. The attack is accompanied by sharp pain, as if a screwdriver is being screwed in; it is impossible to even touch the sore spot. Sometimes the affected area turns purple. Gout has always been considered a disease of kings, since it affected people who led an idle lifestyle: rich food, drinking, and idleness. The pain most often lurks at night and may subside only in the morning.
When the disease becomes chronic, nodules and some pea-shaped compactions appear on the joints, which are popularly called “dirty lumps.” This is the result of the deposition of uric acid salts, which most often appears on the ears. Uric acid salt often causes the formation of stones in the bladder. They are usually small and easily pass out along with urine, but colic can also occur. Frequent attacks of gout, and even prolonged ones, lead to joint destruction and incapacity.
The risk of developing gout increases with:
Diagnosing gout can be difficult due to its similarity to other diseases. It happens that a healthy person has an increased concentration of uric acid in the blood and, conversely, even during an attack, tests may show normal levels. But with correct diagnosis and modern treatment methods, gout can be treated well, or more precisely, its progress slows down or its development stops altogether. Unfortunately, gout does not go away without a trace.
the joint is damaged by acid crystals
To relieve pain, modern gout medications are used that reduce uric acid levels. They are prescribed to patients whose attacks occur quite often. The effect of drugs that remove uric acid from the body with urine occurs at the level of the renal tubules. It is absolutely forbidden to prescribe medications for gout on your own, based on the advice of friends. Some of them are so strong that they have side effects.
Typically, gout tablets are non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. They are prescribed for the period until the inflammation is completely eliminated. Since an attack can happen unexpectedly at any time, it is recommended to carry the medicine with you. During an attack, it is very important to rest the joint and apply an ice pack to the sore spot. Such non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs of synthetic origin include butadione.
This drug has an antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antirheumatic effect. The drug increases the excretion of urate in the urine. Take 1 tablet of butadione 3-4 times a day during or after meals. To consolidate the therapeutic effect, the treatment lasts from 2 to 5 weeks. But in any case, how to treat gout with medications, what dose to take, is determined only by the doctor.
The patient's treatment tactics depend on the specific situation. Before choosing treatment methods, the patient undergoes a thorough examination to determine the influence of positive and negative factors of the disease. A person sometimes has to adopt a new way of life, get used to a different diet, visit saunas and steam baths, and independently carry out a number of procedures, observing the regime.
For ardent opponents of “chemistry” or who have problems taking medications due to their side effects, there is a good drug called Fullflex. There is a form in capsules and cream. The capsules contain extracts of fragrant martinia and white willow bark. Extracts have anti-inflammatory and anti-edematous effects. In addition, pain is reduced and salts are removed. The combination of cream and capsules greatly reduces attacks and increases the “calm period”.
The same preparation of butadione in the form of an ointment provides pain relief for gout. The ointment should be applied several times a day. For the first application, apply a small amount to monitor the possibility of an allergic skin reaction. Butadione ointment eliminates pain and swelling, morning stiffness of joints and increases their movement. The drug is applied to the inflamed area in a thin layer and does not require rubbing. There is no need to apply a bandage, but you should avoid direct sunlight.
using ointment for gout
People with gout can make ointments at home. There are many recipes for preparing topical products. You can take butter and alcohol in a one to one ratio. The oil is boiled, the foam is removed from it, then alcohol is added, and everything is mixed well. The resulting mixture is set on fire to evaporate the alcohol, and the ointment is ready.
For another ointment, grated laundry soap, kerosene, vegetable oil and water are also taken in equal proportions. Everything is thoroughly mixed and infused for 3 days. It is good to apply the ointment after taking a warm bath. Such remedies always perfectly complement and make complex treatment more effective, especially when taking internal medications. They stimulate blood circulation well and help normalize metabolism.
Along with medicinal and local treatment of gout, physiotherapeutic and spa treatment is recommended. During the remission stage, mud applications and hydrogen sulfide baths are very effective. Electrophoresis minimizes pain and increases joint mobility. Ultrasound has an analgesic, anti-inflammatory and absorbable effect. The entire complex must necessarily be accompanied by therapeutic exercises.
My husband ate tons of chocolate, and in the fall he had an attack of gout. Allopurinol was prescribed for life; exacerbations were treated with colchicine. Pah-pah, no pain for six months now. I advise you - do not spare money and go to a good professor, preferably with all the tests at once. You shouldn’t go to the pharmacy on your own; as I understand it, everyone can have their own dose.
And when I was young, when I was involved in athletics, I used butadione ointment for sprained muscles and ligaments in my legs. And now, and I’m 55, during gout attacks I apply a small amount and get rid of the pain fairly quickly. I always have the ointment with me, and I always ate right - thanks to my parents.
My husband uses butadione ointment, applies it very generously, wraps it in heat, and in the morning there is practically no pain. And I got into the habit of using this ointment to remove bruises, I’m too prone to them. I like that the bruise disappears in three days without this terrible color manifestation. It’s a pity that you can’t smear butadion on your daughter, otherwise she’s just like her mother, walking around with abrasions and bruises.
I read reviews about how people can save themselves from gout, and I’m not too lazy to describe the most effective complex. I can’t get past this misfortune, knowing how much my mom suffered from it. Last year I took her to the doctors, because in addition to the foot, there was also a problem with the knee joint. This is how we live now:
performing a basic exercise to retract the thumb: you can protrude it yourself, using your hands or using an elastic band.
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).
LEARN MORE about this and similar diseases: All traditional methods of treatment may have contraindications. Before using prescriptions, consult your doctor!
Nimulide tablets help me with gout
Relieves pain due to gout - foot baths made from whey (1 l) and birch leaves (glass). Boil the whey and throw in birch leaves. Remove from heat and let cool slightly and then place your feet and hold until the whey has cooled. The recipe was tested on myself.
Dimexide is diluted with water one to one, soaked in a cloth, placed on the sore spot, wrapped in cellophane and kept with a warm scarf for 25 minutes, then smeared with dolobena ointment, repeated 5 or 7 times.
Compress on a sore joint (recommendation by a rheumatologist): dimexide and boiled water 1:1, analgin solution, novocaine solution. 20 minutes. Tried by relatives to relieve acute pain during a gout attack. The physical therapy doctor also recommended an alcoholic tincture of lilac, both internally and externally.
I suffered for a long time. But everything passed. Treatment of gout in a sanatorium, pills from Europe, diet, and complete remission helped. And this is after 3 years of severe gout.
7 years ago I made a compress of dimexide with water 1:2, then rubbed it with heated honey, wrapped it in cellophane and a scarf. The course of treatment for gout is 10 compresses. To this day it's fine.
Please tell me what pills from Europe you took? In general, what did you do to cure gout?
thank you for the good folk remedies. God grant that this helps everyone. After all, how unpleasant and painful it is to carry this gout
Eating sorrel is contraindicated for gout! Sorrel juice is a stimulant for exacerbation of gout. You also can’t eat grapes, chocolate, and you can’t drink beer either.
People, try eating apricot kernels, no more than 30 pieces per day and on an empty stomach. And lead a healthy lifestyle, plus cleanse your liver. No harm done. The only BUT is that there is some poison in apricot kernels, but you need to consume it in moderation. Per 100 kg of body weight - 30 pieces per day, no more. The bones can be dried for the winter. Helps. I recommend. The treatment takes a long time, but there is an effect. And quickly... only cats, well, you understand. It's like building muscle quickly - you need drugs, right? Nature cannot be quickly defeated by artificial methods. Chew bitterly, but there will be less harm.
Yes, and don’t listen to doctors who sell American drugs for a lot of money. This is a scam! These Judases sold their souls to the devil, profiting from the misfortune of others, receiving money for conducting FREE experiments on people (in the USA, this would cost a pretty penny), and even selling medicine that pharmaceutical companies provide completely free of charge.
And most importantly - FAITH in yourself, in victory. You need to maintain a balance of spirit, forget about all problems and perceive them as ordinary life crossroads that a person is forced to cross after waiting a little at a traffic light.
Eat apricot kernels and wait...
This was recommended by one person who helped me get rid of gout in three months. What and how did you cure gout? Diet - any nutritionist will tell you this. Medicines? Ortofen and Allopurinol. To drink a lot of water. That's all. Cheap and cheerful.
Folk method? Please. The bunion on my foot went away, I started wearing shoes of the same size that I wore before the inflammatory process. How did you achieve this? Drink alkaline water - 2-3 liters per day. You can not? Then you can fry the eggshells in a frying pan until creamy, and then grind them in a coffee grinder. Drink a third of a teaspoon three times a day for 10 days, half an hour before meals. This will reduce acidity in the body as a whole.
Second: pick flowers, bark and young branches of lilac in the spring, put it in a liter jar and fill it with alcohol, and then put it in the refrigerator for 2 weeks so that the alcohol can extract the substances. Drink 25-30 drops half an hour before meals. The consequences of gout disappear, proven. The main thing is to be on time, do not delay and do not let the disease progress.
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I can’t understand: in one article, you should eat sorrel, in another, under no circumstances.
You can’t eat boiled sorrel if you have gout: sorrel pies, soups, but you can eat raw sorrel.
Thank you.! a lot of new things. We will try. Then we'll write a review!!