Gout sufferers are better off with herbal foot soaks that soothe the muscles and activate blood circulation, such as mugwort, safflower, Pueraria lobata, and chuanxiong. It is recommended to consult a traditional Chinese medicine doctor to decide which herbal foot soak is more suitable for you based on your tongue and pulse. You need to pay attention to the temperature of the water when soaking your feet, cold water foot soak definitely need to pay attention to, because in the case of cold, low temperature, urate excretion is impaired will induce gout, low temperature as much as possible to avoid going to soak your feet.

Gout in the acute stage, can not use hot water to soak feet, this time the blood vessels dilation, more likely to lead to the condition as well as the aggravation of pain. In remission when you can use hot water to soak your feet, the temperature is generally not more than 40 ℃, can promote blood circulation, so that the distal is not easy to discharge uric acid, through the increase in blood circulation will be metabolized, brought to the kidneys to be excreted, conducive to the excretion of uric acid, but also equal to the control of gout.