What Chinese medicine should I take for high uric acid?

Western medicines that lower uric acid levels will cause great stimulation to the human body. Over time, the body will become dependent on the drugs and cannot stop taking them, otherwise the condition will rebound. Therefore, the side effects of Western medicines are relatively large. By choosing Chinese medicine to treat high uric acid, you can control hyperuricemia by combining it with diet and good living habits. Most of the causes of hyperuricemia are dietary habits. Frequent consumption of high-purine foods leads to diseases caused by purine metabolism disorders. Therefore, patients with hyperuricemia should avoid eating high-purine foods such as meat, seafood, and animal offal while using traditional Chinese medicine for treatment.

Knowing that uric acid is too high, the first thing to do is to find out the cause of the increase in uric acid, rather than blindly taking medicine, so as to formulate the correct treatment direction. For example, obesity, drugs (such as aspirin, anti-tuberculosis drugs, diuretics, etc.), blood diseases, tumors or poor kidney function, etc., these causes that cause uric acid to increase are eliminated, and the uric acid level will usually return to normal.

Suggestions: Patients with asymptomatic hyperuricemia (i.e., never had gouty arthritis or urinary tract stones containing uric acid) usually do not need medication. They can pay attention to food control. Only a very small number of patients need medication. They can consult an internist or rheumatologist.

Patients with hyperuricemia should drink more water and less meat broth, chicken, duck and fish soup. Drinking more boiled water can dissolve harmful substances in the body, dilute uric acid and speed up the excretion of uric acid, and help reduce the uric acid content in the blood. Livestock meat usually contains high levels of purine, which is soluble in water. Therefore, broth contains a large amount of purine. If patients with hyperuricemia drink broth frequently, their condition will worsen.