There are many ways to manage gout treatment. Natural remedies are usually the most successful and have the fewest side effects. For those of you trying to avoid prescription drugs full of chemicals and additives, this is the way to go.
While most people who have a taste feel it in their big toes, it can also manifest in the feet, ankles, knees, fingers, and hands. You can take oral medications or herbal remedies, or you can use topical treatments…again, either chemical or natural.
A variety of foods can be taken to treat gout. Natural vegetable juices, like this combination; carrot, beetroot, and cucumber, in a 3-1-1 ratio, taken daily, seems to help reduce uric acid. Cherries and strawberries do the same. Start by eating at least fifteen to twenty-five a day and then stick to around ten a day. The malic acid found in apples appears to neutralize uric acid. You would need to consume one after every meal.
Eight or nine bananas a day (with no other food and lots of water) for three or four days can ease your suffering… or at least distract you. Or you can squeeze half a lime into a glass of water and drink it twice a day… citric acid seems to dissolve uric acid crystals.
The best treatment for gout, natural or not, is to maintain a healthy gout diet year-round, reducing the number of attacks and their severity. It’s quite simple… avoid all fats, most red meat, shellfish and even poultry. Avoid yeast, which of course means bread (matzos are unleavened) and beer. In reality, you want to avoid alcohol of all kinds. Tea, coffee, sugar, and all processed, dry, and canned foods should be kept to a minimum. Eat lots of raw fruits and vegetables.
