One of the most common forms of arthritis is gout. Gout is characterized by joint inflammation accompanied by terrible pain and sometimes red, shiny skin covering the joint. An attack of gout appears suddenly, often overnight and most often affects the feet and ankles, with the most common area being the ball of the large toe. Gout can be cured by using natural products such as cherries,...

Gout attacks occur suddenly in most of the cases. The first attack is surely going to develop at night, people getting to wake up feeling an extreme joint pain. During gout attack people usually develop the following symptoms: sudden and severe joint pain, swelling, reddish skin around the affected joints and extreme sensitivity in those areas. All these symptoms might be a cause of an...

This is the first of an article series about this diet. See the bottom of this article for how to read the second article. Natural gout treatment largely involves diet. The most widely touted gout diet for sufferers of the disease of kings, is the low purine gout diet. The cause of gout theory behind it is that because uric acid is made from purines, and because uric acid is...

With the ever-rising cost of health care looming into the future, many of us are looking to the past for answers in natural home remedy (for Gout especially) for the treatment of what ails us. This also goes for disorders like Arthritis and Gout. Home remedy is mostly being used as treatment. Medicinal plants and herbs have been around for as long as humans have roamed the...

Under normal circumstances, the purines you find in many foods are broken down into uric acid, and the body gets rid of it without any problems. However, for someone with gout, getting rid of this uric acid is problematic, and the result is painful crystals forming in the joints - leading to gout pain. When this happens, there are medications that can help with the pain, but one of the best...