One, rhubarb
Taste bitter, cold, to the spleen, stomach, large intestine, liver, pericardium meridian. The main effect is to clear the heat and fire, drainage and detoxification, cool the blood and detoxification, blood circulation and pain. Rhubarb has an anti-inflammatory effect can inhibit the inflammatory response of the joints during gout attacks, but also can inhibit the activity of xanthine oxidase thus affecting the formation of uric acid, thus reducing the level of blood uric acid.
Contraindications: cold spleen and stomach, weak qi and blood, gangrene, postpartum, menstruation and lactation are cautious, pregnant women are prohibited.
Second, Poria cocos
Taste sweet, light, flat, to the liver, stomach meridian. It has the effect of detoxification, removing dampness, facilitating joints, eliminating swelling and detoxification, and dispelling dampness and collaterals. Modern research has proved that Poria cocos has anti-inflammatory and immunity-regulating effects can promote the excretion of uric acid, reduce blood uric acid levels.
Contraindications: caution for those with liver and kidney yin deficiency.
Three, psyllium
Taste sweet, cold, to the kidney, bladder, liver, lung meridian. It has the effect of diuresis, dampness and diarrhea, clearing the liver and eyesight, and removing heat and phlegm. Psyllium itself contains adenosuccinic acid, which can inhibit purine enzymes, so that hypoxanthine and xanthine can not be converted into uric acid, can rapidly reduce the concentration of blood uric acid, reducing the excretion of uric acid, thus inhibiting the formation of kidney stones and gout stones.
Contraindications: Kidney deficiency and cold people should be especially avoided.