Gout is one of the oldest diseases, which was not badly studied even in the time of Hippocrates. Once it was called the disease of the kings, because they suffered mainly monarchs, abused fatty foods and alcoholic beverages. They did not have to treat gout with baking soda. Today this method is very popular. More and more patients are turning to him. Although this therapy is very simple, the results are pleasantly surprising.
Is soda useful or harmful for gout?
Specialists say that ordinary kitchen sodium bicarbonate can dissolve harmful accumulations of uric acid salts in the joints. And with cases when people with his help successfully fought with bouts of gout, medicine really had to face.
That is, on the musculoskeletal system, the treatment of gout with baking soda affects favorably. But to abuse the medicine is not necessary for the reason that sodium bicarbonate neutralizes the acidic environment. And this is fraught with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.
Recipes for soda from gout
It can be used both externally and ingested:
- The most common method of treatment is to eat a fifth of a teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate and to drink a glass of warm, purified water. If you want, you can immediately dissolve the soda with gout before use in the water. Drink this remedy should be twice or thrice a day with a break of three days.
- It is very effective for gout and treatment with soda trays. To prepare them, several drops of iodine and three teaspoons of sodium bicarbonate should be added to the water. Painful joints in the healing agent should be kept for 15-20 minutes.
- You can also prepare a compress with mustard powder, soda and honey. In equal quantities, the ingredients are mixed in one vessel, and after being applied to the diseased joint and wrapped in film, and on top - a warm scarf.