Professor Lin Yi - Ping 's Experience In Treating Gouty Arthritis By Integrative Chinese And Western Medicine

Gouty arthritis is a common rheumatic disease which is related to metabolism clinically. Its incidence has relation to both metabolic abnormality of purine and reduced excretion of uric acid, so urate sediment happened in some parts including joints, synovium and cartilage. It can cause some inflammatory reactions of red, swell, hot and painful on the soft tissues around joints. Its attacks can make patients feel huge pains and hard to bear patients are difficult to move and even wake up during the night due to the huge pains. Its attacks mainly relate to some factors like the diet organization, life style, race, heredity and geographical environment. Currently, western medicine has some rules on curing this disease, like analgesic and anti-inflammatory actions for acute attack or ULT for chronic attacks. They both play important roles on controlling illness, but undeniably, they also have some side effects. However, Chinese medicine has its own unique method and impressive effects. It not only can help to relieve swelling, pain and inflammation, but also can reduce the opportunities of side effects aroused by some western medicines like NSAIDs, hormones and colchicine. My teacher thought belongs to traditional Chinese medicine of gouty arthritis in arthromyodynia category, the incidence and lack of innate endowment, ferrite loss deficiency, or usual eating fat sweet Atsumi, that damp heat, streamer joint and the incidence of chronic illness and is easy to phlegm and blood stasis, even hurt the spleen and kidney. Treatment of acute period should be dominated by clearing heat and removing dampness, appropriate compatibility of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis medicine, chronic period should be based on promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis, invigorating the spleen and removing dampness and phlegm and tonifying kidney, clinical achieved good effect.