If you are a gout patient that has been suffering from the disease for some time, I believe you must have come across some of those so-called natural or home remedies for gout.
Among the popular ones are cherries, apple cider juice and some other herbs.
For minor or beginner gout attacks, these natural remedies can definitely help to rectify the pain or swelling in the affected joints.
But if the patient's blood uric acid remains on the high side at all time and the frequency of attack become serious and more sensitive, even eating a bucket full for cherries will not help much.
There are many factors that contribute to the onset of a gout attack.
Some say it is because of some hormone or enzyme failed to function properly, some say it is because of the failure of certain organs.
Among all factors, high uric acid concentration in the body is the proven major cause for gout.
Conventionally, medical professionals treat gout as if it is a disease and prescribe all sorts of drugs such as colchicine, allopurinol, NSAIDs, cortisone shot, etc to treat the disease.
Well, the more accurate term to use is to control or maintain the condition.
Then the alternative medicine or homeopathy experts follow through by offering some natural, non-drug based remedies or herbs to treat the disease too.
Even though these traditional remedies can somehow minimize the pain and inflammation, they cannot cure gout too.
It is just another means of controlling and maintaining the symptoms.
Here is the fact, gout cannot be cured! This is because it is not a disease at all! In order to get rid of it once and for all, we must first stop perceiving it as an illness.
It is already proven that approach towards gout is leading to a dead end.
Look at how fast the number of gout patients grows worldwide.
How many of gout patients actually stop having another attack in their life after taking those drugs or following some natural gout remedies? Gout is known a disease because the pharmaceutical industry makes it a disease, so that they can offer some pills to the market and profit from it, I mean huge profits! And the income stream is continuous and forever growing because once a gout patient starts on a course of medication, he will have to pop in the pills for the rest of his life.
The same is for the homeopathic solutions.
Most of them are just temporary fixes that a patient has to continue to take for the rest of his life, if he wants to prevent any serious gout attack in the future.
Can you imagine eating a bunch of cherries or taking some unknown herbs everyday for the rest of your life? Well, at least this is better than taking those chemical drugs.
Gout is not a disease! Stop treating it as if it is one! Gout is just one of the symptoms that tell you that your body is going through acidosis.
It is a warning sign that ask you to change your lifestyle because it is not what your body can take.
With some simple understanding of gout plus a little common sense, you will realize that gout is actually not that scary or incurable after all.