Text/Yangcheng Evening News All Media Reporter Chen Hui Correspondent Wang Jian
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Gout is already a high incidence of urbanites, and some friends even have no symptoms , The physical examination was also found to have high blood uric acid. While receiving standard treatment, you can also try dietary therapy. Liang Zujian, director of the Fifth Department of Orthopedics (Osteoporosis, Rheumatism and Orthopedics) of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, recommended several therapeutic recipes, which are worthy of collection.
1. Lily glutinous rice porridge
[Applicable population] Patients with chronic gouty arthritis.
[Materials] 50 grams of fresh lily (25 grams of dry product), 100 grams of glutinous rice, and appropriate amount of rock sugar (or white sugar).
[Practice] Put it in a pot (preferably in a casserole), add water to boil the rice until the rice flower soup is thick, and take it warm. Take it 3-4 times a day for 1 month to see the effect.
[Experts advise] Lily is a traditional food and medicine homologous ingredient in my country. According to modern pharmacological studies, lily bulbs contain colchicine and other alkaloids. Lily porridge has the stomach-nourishing properties of glutinous rice, the diuretic effect and nutritional supplementation of rice porridge, which can significantly reduce the side effects of colchicine contained in lily, and play a mild auxiliary therapeutic role.
2. Jinche tea
[Applicable population] Patients with acute gout attack
[Materials] Chlorella chinensis, Plantain 15 grams of grass each.
[Practice] Decoct for 40 minutes, replace the tea with juice, once a day, a week is a course of treatment.
[Experts advise] Money grass has the functions of detoxification and blood stasis, reducing swelling and relieving pain. Insect bites and other diseases. It can be taken orally or applied externally.
Plantago is also a common traditional Chinese medicine for clearing away heat and detoxifying. “Ben Cao Bei Yao” mentions that “Plantella can promote water, relieve heat, and cool blood.” Modern pharmacological research also found that it has Anti-inflammatory effect.
Drinking both of them by soaking in water can clear away heat and cool blood, reduce swelling and stasis, help reduce fire, and increase the body’s resistance. When the soup is put into the appropriate amount, it can have a certain effect.
However, plantain and money grass are not recommended for long-term drinking, because they are cold in nature, and long-term use will easily damage the spleen and stomach functions.
3. Uric acid-lowering tea
[Applicable population] Patients with gout in the intermittent period.
[Materials] 15 grams of psyllium, 15 grams of purslane, 20 grams of tuckahoe, and 25 grams of Yinchen.
[Practice] Decoct in water for 25 minutes, add 6 grams of rock sugar to replace the tea.
[Experts advise] Purslane is a medicinal and edible plant, which has the functions of clearing away heat, removing dampness, detoxifying, detumescence, anti-inflammatory, quenching thirst and diuretic. Yin Chen is bitter and acrid in taste, slightly cold in nature, and has the effect of clearing dampness and heat, promoting gallbladder and relieving jaundice. “Compendium of Materia Medica” mentioned that “Tuckahoe can strengthen the spleen and stomach, eliminate rheumatism, strengthen the spleen and stomach, nourish the body, and strengthen the muscles and bones.” The effect of harmonizing the stomach can reconcile the cold and cool medicinal properties of the other three.
4. Chidou Loofah Decoction
[Applicable Population] Patients with chronic gouty arthritis and intermittent period.
[Materials] 30 grams of red beans, 9 grams of loofah, 9 grams of angelica, and 9 grams of Wei Lingxian.
[Practice] loofah, angelica, and Wei Lingxian are boiled in the decoction and red bean, and add an appropriate amount of sugar. 1 time a day for 7 days.
[Experts advise] Red beans, also known as red beans, are common ingredients for ordinary people, rich in protein, carbohydrates and other nutrients.
As a medicinal material, it is sweet, sour, and flat. It is mainly used for detoxification and swelling, detoxification and pus removal. It is used for edema and swelling, carbuncle and sore. Diuretics.
And the loofah in “Materia Medica” has such a record: “The loofah, into the meridians, relieves the evil heat. When the heat is removed, the wind goes away, and the body fluid in the collaterals will not combine and become phlegm, which becomes swollen. Toxic symptoms, so the cloud detoxifies the ear.” It can be seen that the loofah has the effect of reducing swelling and detoxification.
Angelica sinensis is a traditional Chinese medicine that everyone is familiar with. It has the effect of promoting blood circulation and nourishing blood. It has also been found to have anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects in modern pharmacological experimental research. Wei Lingxian is spicy, salty, warm in nature, and has the effect of dispelling wind-dampness and dredging the meridians.
Generally speaking, this dietetic prescription is mild in nature and suitable for patients in chronic gouty arthritis and intermittent periods.
5. Papaya Honeysuckle Teng Decoction
[Applicable people] It is suitable for patients with spleen deficiency and dampness stagnation who are in acute gout attack.
[Efficacy] Strengthen the spleen and remove dampness, relax the tendons and activate the collaterals.
[Materials] 100 grams of papaya, 30 grams of honeysuckle vine, 30 grams of coix seed, and 9 grams of paeonol.
[Practice] Decoction of honeysuckle vine and Dan skin to extract juice, cook with Dan skin and Coix seed, once a day for 5 days.