Natural treatment for Gout

Symptoms of Gout

• Painful, tender, hot and swollen big toe.
• The affected foot cannot bear weight and even wrists and knees maybe affected during the acute stage.
• The attack occurs during mid-night or early hours of the morning.
• Loss of appetite and slight fever are other symptoms.
• They may generally lead to arthritis, formation of kidney stones.

Causes of Gout

• When blood becomes full of uric acid, needle shaped crystals are formed in the joints, skin and kidneys, which bring about attacks of gout.
• Certain human races are prone to it.
• Heredity, lack of proper exercise, eating protein and carbohydrate rich food regularly, stress, excessive intake of alcoholic drinks are other factors.

Home Treatment of Gout

• Fast on orange juice and water for 5 days for acute attacks.
• Cleanse bowels with warm water enema.
• Then follow an all-fruit 3-meal diet for 4 days.
• Then adopt balanced diet.
• Breakfast – whole wheat bread, milk or buttermilk and apples, apricot, figs, mangoes or oranges.
• Lunch – steamed vegetables, whole wheat bread, buttermilk and cottage cheese.
• Dinner – raw vegetable salad, sprouts, butter and whole wheat bread.
• Avoid fish, eggs and meat.
• Start eating 15-25 cherries a day, initially. Thereafter about 10 cherries a day is sufficient.
• A combination of carrot juice, cucumber and beet juices is beneficial.
• Beans, green leafy vegetables, bananas and potatoes are rich in calcium and protect against gout.
• Fresh pineapple juice, raw potato juice and juice of french beans or string beans are effective.
• Full Epsom salt baths 3 times a week and salt foot baths twice daily provides relief, cold packs can be applied to the affected joints.