Gout itself is caused by cold and dampness, which is generally a problem of spleen and kidney. At present, the only treatment is to drink Chinese medicine, because Chinese medicine has cured many patients who have not recovered from western medicine. Before taking Chinese medicine, you can drink a small bowl of soup made of ginger, jujube and medlar every day for several days. The rest is cold food (such as seafood) and cold drinks. You can put more ginger when cooking.
"synopsis of the golden chamber" said: "the patient is full of pain and fever, and the day is very dramatic, which is called rheumatism. This disease is caused by wind and sweat, or long-term injury and cold. " On August 9, typhoid fever with rheumatism made the body ache and upset, unable to lie on its side and rotate, unable to vomit or thirst, and weak and astringent pulse. Rheumatism is accompanied by joint pain, joint pain, pain, sweating, shortness of breath, dysuria, bad wind or body swelling.
Later ancient books had other names, such as calendar festival, white tiger calendar festival, white tiger wind, etc., or that gout belonged to the category of arthralgia syndrome and was closely related to arthralgia and wind arthralgia. About the cause of the disease. Ming Yi Zhang's Volume VI: "A lot of blood spontaneously boils due to heat, or cools due to cold and humidity. The blood is cold, dirty, and it hurts if you can't run. " Or due to internal injury, loss of qi and blood, exogenous wind-cold or damp phlegm and yin fire. Symptoms are severe pain in limbs or back, and swelling and deformity of finger and toe joints are more common.
The principle of treatment is nothing more than dispelling dampness due to dampness, dispelling cold due to cold, dispelling wind due to wind, and even eliminating excess due to excess. Therapeutic prescriptions include Herba Ephedrae, Semen Armeniacae Amarum, Coicis Semen and Glycyrrhizae Decoction, Ji Fang Astragalus Decoction, Guizhi Fuzi Decoction and Glycyrrhizae Fuzi Decoction, and later Gentiana macrophylla and Clematis Siwu Decoction (with Guizhi and Notopterygium; Adding Achyranthes bidentata and Radix Stephaniae Tetrandrae; Rhizoma Arisaematis and Rhizoma Pinelliae are added to wet phlegm; Blood stasis plus peach kernel and safflower; Adding Rhizoma Atractylodis and Cortex Phellodendri into damp heat; Ginseng Radix and Radix Astragali are added for qi deficiency; Colla Corii Asini and Colla Corii Asini are added for blood deficiency; Yin deficiency plus radix rehmanniae and tortoise plastron; Yang deficiency plus tiger bone velvet antler. "Cold, with aconite soup, Cang Gong angelica soup) and so on.