Gout

"Gout" Issue / Symptom Connections

Below you will find various relationships to, and potential clinical treatment approaches for gout.

Content Related to Gout

It is critical to appreciate that in Chinese Medicine, treatment for "gout" is rarely focused on the symptoms exclusively. Alternatively, a practitioner is looking at the factors that led to the development of "gout" - i.e. the "cause(s)".

For non-practitioners, we recommend reading treating the "cause" and not the "symptoms" for more on the overall approach and the importance of the TCM diagnostic system in formulating treatment approaches.

Within TCM, "gout" is potentially related to one or more of the following diagnostic patterns: kidney qi deficiency, kidney yang deficiency, liver blood deficiency, liver cold stagnation, and/or liver wind.

The above patterns are common examples. In clinical situations, however, there are any number of other possibilities. Many times there will be a layered combination of patterns in an interwoven blend with their symptoms - some being the cause of an issue and the result of another issue. While initially complex, this is illustrative of the the web of relationships that Chinese Medicine is designed to approach.

• View SP 2 (Great Metropolis)
  
      On medial side of big toe, distal and inferior to the 1st metatarsaldigital joint in a depression at the juncture of th…
  
      Generally used to clear damp-heat - gout, painful obstructions. Local point for issues with the big toe. With SP 3 tonify SP organ - abdominal distention, diarrhea and/or heart pain.