🌿 Folk Prescriptions

1. Lily Soup: 20–30 grams of lily boiled into tea or steamed and eaten daily, can be taken long-term. Effect: Moistens lungs, stops cough, calms the spirit. Lily contains colchicine and other components effective in preventing and treating gouty arthritis.
2. Lily and Plantain Seed Honey Drink: 20 grams lily, 30 grams plantain seed boiled into about 500 ml water, add one spoon honey, stir well, consume daily. Effect: Tonifies lungs, boosts qi, strengthens spleen, promotes diuresis. Plantain seed aids in excreting uric acid, helping prevent gout attacks.
3. Red Bean and Coix Seed Porridge: 50 grams red beans, 50 grams coix seed boiled into porridge daily. Effect: Strengthens spleen and stomach, promotes diuresis, facilitates uric acid excretion.
4. Smilax and Rice Porridge: 30 grams smilax root, 50 grams rice. First boil smilax into decoction, then add rice to cook into porridge. Consume daily, can be taken regularly. Function: Clears heat, detoxifies, promotes dampness removal, unblocks meridians. Smilax increases uric acid excretion.
5. Mountain Gourd and Honey: 5 grams mountain gourd root boiled into water, add one spoon honey, stir well, consume daily. Function: Detoxifies, resolves phlegm, disperses nodules, reduces swelling. Mountain gourd contains colchicine, suitable for acute gout attacks of damp-heat type.
6. Peach Kernel Porridge: 15 grams peach kernels, 150 grams rice. First crush peach kernels into paste, extract juice with water, filter out residue, then add rice to cook porridge daily. Function: Activates blood, removes stasis, unblocks meridians, relieves pain. Suitable for gout due to blood stasis and phlegm obstruction.
7. Modified Radish Soup: 250 grams radish, 30 grams perilla seeds. Wash radish, slice, stir-fry lightly with oil, add perilla seeds and 500 ml water, simmer until cooked, add salt to taste. Function: Nourishes heart, calms spirit, promotes diuresis, removes dampness. Regular consumption prevents gout attacks.
8. Wind-Preventing and Coix Seed Porridge: 10 grams wind-preventing herb, 30 grams coix seed. Boil until rice is cooked, consume daily for one week. Function: Clears heat, expels wind, relieves joint stiffness. Suitable for gout due to damp-heat obstruction.
9. Yam and Garlic Chives Porridge: 100 grams raw yam, 10 grams garlic chives, 50 grams rice, 30 grams pinellia, 30 grams astragalus, appropriate amount of sugar. First wash rice, add finely chopped yam and washed pinellia and garlic chives, cook together, add sugar before eating. Function: Boosts qi, warms yang, transforms phlegm, removes obstruction. Suitable for gout caused by spleen deficiency and internal phlegm accumulation.
10. White Mustard Seed, Lotus Seed, and Yam Cake: 5 grams white mustard seed powder, 100 grams lotus seed powder, 200 grams fresh yam, 5 grams tangerine peel strips, 200 grams red date flesh. First peel and cut yam into slices, mash red dates, mix with lotus seed powder, white mustard seed powder, tangerine peel strips, add water, blend evenly, steam into cake for breakfast. Each serving 50–100 grams. Function: Boosts qi, transforms phlegm, unblocks obstructions. Suitable for gout due to spleen qi deficiency.