Natural home remedy using mustard oil and camphor:
1. Take 1 cup of mustard oil
2. Add 10 gm of camphor
3. Heat till camphor dissolves completely
4. Massage the affected area with lukewarm oil to help with pain
Remedy using apples:
1. Eat 1 apple after every meal
2. Apples have malic acid, which neutralizes uric acid
Natural home remedy using limes and Lemons:
1. Juice a whole lime or lemons into a 16oz glass of water
2. Drink 2 times a day
Citric acid in limes or lemons dissolves uric acid in the body.
Cherries for Gout -- Myth or Marvel?
By Robert H. Shmerling M.D.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
(From http://www.intelihealth.com/article/cherries-for-gout-myth-or-marvel?hd=Medical#do)
The evidence that Cherries Help Gout
- A study published in 2003 in the Journal of Nutrition found that among 10 healthy women eating two servings of Bing cherries, uric acid fell by 15%. The authors concluded that the findings "support the reputed anti-gout efficacy of cherries."
- A Journal of Nutrition study from 2006 found that 18 healthy adults who ate 280 grams of Bing cherries each day for a month had a significant reduction in blood levels of substances associated with inflammation and immune cell activity. The authors concluded that the cherries' "anti-inflammatory effects may be beneficial for the management and prevention of inflammatory diseases."
- A 2012 study in the medical journal Arthritis and Rheumatism found that people who had recently eaten cherries or cherry extract reported fewer gout attacks.
- Eating cherries was associated with a 60% increase in the amount of uric acid eliminated in the 2003 study mentioned above. This may lower blood levels of uric acid enough to reduce the likelihood of gout developing or, once it appears, of troublesome symptoms.
- Cherries contain vitamin C. A 2005 study found that taking vitamin C supplements lowered uric acid modestly. More recent studies linked vitamin C intake with lower blood levels of uric acid and a lower incidence of gout. In addition, vitamin C has anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant effects. So, the vitamin C content of cherries could have a beneficial effect on the prevention or treatment of gout. Then again, there are a number of foods with much higher vitamin C content than cherries (including oranges, strawberries and broccoli). So if vitamin C is the mechanism, other foods may be even better for gout.
- Cherries are a good source of anthocyanins, plant-based members of the flavonoid family that have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects. Anthocyanins may help reduce the risk for gout.
- Cherries may have effects on the immune system. In the 2006 Journal of Nutrition study, blood levels of two measures of inflammation, nitric oxide and C-reactive protein, and T-cell activity (a measure of immune function) were reduced in healthy people eating cherries. These effects on the immune system might lower the risk of gout attacks.
Then there are the "risks" of cherries to consider:
- Eating two servings of cherries every day (the dose used in the 2006 study) provides an extra 180 calories. If your diet is otherwise the same, this could contribute to weight gain of 1.5 pounds a month.
- If the immune effects of cherries are enough to block inflammation, they could actually increase the chance of infection (although this is unproven).
- Cherries are not cheap, especially when they're out of season.
- Eating cherries during an attack could make things worse. That's because any change in uric acid during an attack can make it worse or last longer.
Eating cherries over a two-day period reduced the risk of gout attacks by 35%, according to a new study led by Boston University (BU) in the US that is being published in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism.
For their case-crossover study, Zhang and colleagues recruited 633 people with gout and followed them online for a year. 88% of participants were white, had an average age of 54, and 78% of them were male. They answered questions about gout onset, symptoms, risk factors, medications, and whether they ate cherries or took cherry extract, and for how long.
Consuming cherries or cherry extract may lower your risk of developing a gout attack by 35%.
The researchers classed any cherry intake in servings, with one serving being half a cup, or 10 to 12 cherries.
When they analyzed the participant responses, they found of those who had eaten cherries in one form or another, 35% ate fresh cherries, 2% took cherry extract, and 5% consumed both.
They also counted 1,247 gout attacks over the one-year follow-up, 92% of which were in the joint at the base of the big toe.
They compared the cherry consumption against the gout attack incidence, and found those participants who ate cherries for two days, had a 35% lower risk of gout attacks or flares compared to participants who did not have them at all.
They also found that the threat of gout flares fell by as much as 75% when cherry intake was combine with allopurinol, a drug that lowers uric acid levels, compared to not taking the drug or having the cherries.
These benefits persisted even after taking into account factors that can affect gout risk, such as gender, obesity(BMI), purine intake (in foods that can increase gout risk), plus use of alcohol, diuretics and anti-gout medications.
Zhang says:"The gout flare risk continued to decrease with increasing cherry consumption, up to three servings over two days."
He and his colleagues found cherry intakes above this number of servings did not give any additional benefit.
In an accompanying editorial, Allan Gelber from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, and Daniel Solomon from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard University Medical School in Boston, say the study is significant because it looks at diet and the risk of gout flares recurring.
But while these findings are promising, they urge patients who currently suffer from gout not to "abandon standard therapies".
They agree with the study authors that further randomized clinical trials should now be done to confirm the findings.
As does Alan Silman, professor and medical director of Arthritis Research UK.
Consuming cherries or cherry extract may lower your risk of developing a gout attack by 35%.
The researchers classed any cherry intake in servings, with one serving being half a cup, or 10 to 12 cherries.
When they analyzed the participant responses, they found of those who had eaten cherries in one form or another, 35% ate fresh cherries, 2% took cherry extract, and 5% consumed both.
They also counted 1,247 gout attacks over the one-year follow-up, 92% of which were in the joint at the base of the big toe.
They compared the cherry consumption against the gout attack incidence, and found those participants who ate cherries for two days, had a 35% lower risk of gout attacks or flares compared to participants who did not have them at all.
They also found that the threat of gout flares fell by as much as 75% when cherry intake was combine with allopurinol, a drug that lowers uric acid levels, compared to not taking the drug or having the cherries.
These benefits persisted even after taking into account factors that can affect gout risk, such as gender, obesity(BMI), purine intake (in foods that can increase gout risk), plus use of alcohol, diuretics and anti-gout medications.
Zhang says:"The gout flare risk continued to decrease with increasing cherry consumption, up to three servings over two days."
He and his colleagues found cherry intakes above this number of servings did not give any additional benefit.
In an accompanying editorial, Allan Gelber from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, and Daniel Solomon from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard University Medical School in Boston, say the study is significant because it looks at diet and the risk of gout flares recurring.
But while these findings are promising, they urge patients who currently suffer from gout not to "abandon standard therapies".
They agree with the study authors that further randomized clinical trials should now be done to confirm the findings.
As does Alan Silman, professor and medical director of Arthritis Research UK.
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