Home Remedies for Gout
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Gout Home Remedies:
Submitted by LM at 2010-10-03 21:15:28
#1: Avoid the trigger foods. HELLO... Enjoy them on occasion in small quantities.
#2: take daily cherry in vitamin form with curcumin at each meal. Curcumin is a great anti-inflammatory and helps fight cancer as well.
#3: put a pinch of baking soda in your glass of water. It neutralizes the acid. Drink lots of water to eliminate the acid.
#4: avoid alcohol. Seriously if you think it would be hard to do then you have a real problem.
Your body doesn't lie. Listen to it and focus on feeling good. You are what you eat. I found that gout is a symptom of many underlying problems and food habits that are slowly getting better because I took action and made a choice to get healthy. I'm slowly reversing my type 2 diabetes at the same time by avoiding processed foods, alcohol, and protein sources that trigger gout. I eat nuts and make whey protein shakes with fresh fruit. I eat lots of salads and pay attention to my habits. The meds won't cure it. It's up to you to eliminate what your body can't tolerate:)
I couldn't take the meds for gout as they produced pain in my kidney area. I had to do it the natural way
rating: 8 (4 votes)
Submitted by Jose at 2009-05-28 10:23:58
What work for me, and has kept me gout free without any medications:
1) eat as many berries when feeling like an attack is coming, that includes Cherries, Strawberries (usually cheaper and more common) and blueberries
2) Drink a lot of water, specially in a day in which you ate a rich food to compensate and clean your system
3) Add basic spices to your diet such as oregano
4) Potassium citrate does wonders to reduce acidity in the body. You can find it in any vitamin store. Take one a day with meals. But just take it on and off for no more than a period of two weeks
5) Apple Cider Vinegar is also excellent
to balance the body, but it is very strong so either eat it with meals or dilute it with water. Also here do not take it all the time but on and off
6) Lime juice is also great if you can add it to your diet (raw, not cook)
These items have really help me to keep my gout on check. It is always good to have some meds as a backup just in case but I got my first gout attack about 5 years ago, and the meds do not cure the problem. But after trying the 6 points I just mentioned a couple of years ago or so I have had my gout under control ( I have not used any meds since then). I hope it helps you as much as it has helped me
god bless
J
rating: 8 (10 votes)
Submitted by Rey at 2009-10-10 09:26:44
When I join Fun Runs and marathons, there have been less gout attacks. There is no significant change in my intake of food though I see to it that I always eat banana. So I suggest eat banana and run, or exercise. That's the best way to eliminate toxins of the body.
rating: 6 (4 votes)
Submitted at 2010-01-31 21:31:12
By the time I was diagnosed with Gout, my doctor also found that I have 'metabolic syndrome': Overweight, Diabetes, High Cholesterol(or Triglyceride), and Hypertension. I'm 47yr old male, fits right in the 'middle age' diseases.
My Rheumatologist started me on gout medication and I faithfully worked with her for a year. It worked on getting my uric acid down, but not my flares. Meantime, the gout medication is making my liver enzymes go up. She thinks since the UA is down, the treatment is 'effective'. I disagree. I now not only have metabolic syndrome (all boarderline), gout, but now I have drug induced liver reaction!!
So I stopped the medication, rethink my approach, and started working on the one thing that can cure all of those diseases: diet and exercise. NOTE: I am otherwise healthy, so do this at your own discretion.
Don't think diet and exercise will work? IT does when you make REAL changes. I can go on and on, but you know what I mean. Stop looking for the magic pills and secret formulas. It's that simple.
To Your Health
rating: 5 (4 votes)
Submitted at 2003-11-07 17:47:18
Take safflower in capsule form to aid the healing process.
rating: 5 (25 votes)
Submitted at 2003-11-07 17:47:18
Drink cherry juice for relief from symptoms.
rating: 5 (113 votes)
Submitted at 2007-04-27 10:31:03
To prevent gout, eat 5 to 10 cherries a day, or eat 10 to 15 cherries to help get over an attack already in progress.
rating: 5 (15 votes)
Submitted at 2005-09-30 15:26:15
I have tried 1-3 cups of celery root tea (1-2 teaspoons per cup...filter through paper towel into cup). After approx. 3 hours..........RELIEF was there. Able to walk upright again. Alternation of cherry juice and celery root tea also helped. If you feel like it, make some celery root soup. Dice celery root, add stalks, s & p to taste. Boil unti soft. ENJOY
rating: 5 (21 votes)
Submitted by Richard B at 2010-12-31 18:58:57
Subject: Niacin and gout.
Approximately 6 years ago a cardiologist put me on a medication plus diet regime to control my cholesterol. Within this medication regime was a daily dose of a time release Niacin. This in conjunction with a LIPID has been proven to lower cholesterol better than the LIPID alone. After approximately 3 years on this combination I started developing gout symptoms. It got to the point where I could not get around very well due to the discomfort. My left foot was so swollen that I could not wear a shoe. Talking to a different doctor (a family practitioner) about the gout I stared a treatment using Allopurinol with diet modifications (again). This seemed to work well and minimized the acute gout symptoms. Later I was prescribed Uloric and this seemed to work better but the gout symptoms seemed to stay just below acute level. The gout period covered 2 years.
As an aside my uric acid levels always stayed at marginal levels to be classified as a problem on its on.
Then my wife read an article that indicated niacin was a contributor to higher uric acid levels in some people. So I cut my niacin completely, two weeks later, the underlying symptoms of gout went away. I then cut my Uloric completely, two weeks went by, the gout symptoms did not return. I started up the niacin and within one week my gout symptoms came back. I dropped the niacin and the Uloric completely and I have now been over eight months on just my heart smart diet and other medication sans the niacin--- gout free. All of this info has been shared with my cardiologist and general practitioner as it progressed. My blood work has not shown any increase in my cholesterol without the niacin.
rating: 4 (9 votes)
Submitted at 2003-11-07 17:47:18
Apply elm leaf tea to affected area for pain and inflammation.
rating: 3 (8 votes)
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