When you have an acute attack of gout, nothing else matters. For anyone who has suffered with this painful condition knows, gout is debilitating. Many people who have gout in their toes will tell you that they can't even wear socks and the discomfort from a bed sheet or blanket touching the affected area is overwhelming. Most of us who live with this condition eventually turn to strong medications to control the symptoms, but there are several simple home remedies for gout pain that are really effective.
Exercise the joints. Put each of the joint through a full range of motion. Try doing this exercise 1-2 times per day.
Soak the feet in Epsom Salt if the pain is concentrated in the big toe. Epsom Salt is a staple in almost every grandma's house. Older people use Epsom Salt for everything from a laxative to a bath salt to sooth aching muscles.
Knowledge is your most important attack against gout! Prevention is always the best medicine for treating this common problem. Here are some simple tips that will put you at risk for uric acid formation. You should not eat meats such as kidneys, liver, tripe, tongue and red meat. You should also avoid fish roe, scallops, shellfish, beans, lentils and peas. We also recommend moderating alcohol consumption.
Baking soda and water is also a common remedy used in many natural health circles. We recommend mixing a half teaspoon of baking soda with 8 ounces of water. You can take this drink 3 times a day to relieve the pain.
Gout is accelerated by imbalanced diet and fast food habits. Gout prevention and gout pain relief can be sought by eating a balanced diet. Avoid foods such as red meat, sausage, liver, spinach, cauliflower and shellfish because they cause accumulation of uric acid in the blood stream.
People with gout should eat a diet rich in fruits, vegetable, chicken in limited quantities. Try to avoid oily food as this also accelerates gout. Another simple way for gout pain relief is to drink water like fish. Water prevents uric acid accumulation and can go a long way in providing gout pain relief.
Naturopathy believes that like all other diseases, gout is the result of inadequate excretion of the morbid and poisonous matter from the orifices of the body. The bowels, the urinary tract, the skin and the nostrils---all must expel the waste matter from the body. If they become slack and do not function properly, those substances accumulate in the body and produce gout. Life depends on healthy blood and nature has devised catarrh, diahrroea and fevers to force the human system to expel the accumulated waste matter. If these diseases are suppressed, as happens in most case when the patient takes to allopathic treatment, the poisonous and morbid matter attacks the part of the body, which is weaker than others. That is how chronic diseases are born.
Learning to flush your body with the foods you eat is important. Foods that are high in fiber (especially water soluble fiber) are critical for your treatment. Make sure you are looking for whole grain foods with high dietary fiber. For instance, your cereals should be at least 5 grams of dietary fiber per serving. Your breads should be above 3 grams per serving. You should also eat at least 6 servings of fruits and vegetables each day.
Another common gout home remedy is taking vitamin C. As with other medications, too much of this can have a detrimental effect, so discuss this option with your doctor before trying this remedy. You should never exceed 2,000 mgs a day, and for some people, even that is too much. Vitamin C works well for gout because it lowers levels of uric acid in the body, and helps prevent uric acid crystals from forming in your joints. It is best used as a preventative measure as once an attack is underway it probably won't help much to reduce the pain.
Before modern medicine people used home remedies to cure gout and found it to be very effective. As technology become more advanced these home cures eventually faded away and was lost but now there are coming back into popularity as they provide an effective but harmless way to treat gout long term.
Scott Gillespie
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