Gout is a form of arthritis characterized by acute attacks of joint pain, redness and swelling. Men are more likely to develop gout. Gout usually affects the large joint of the big toe, but it can occur in feet, ankles, knees, hands and wrists. Gout is associated with a lingering discomfort that can last from a few days to a few weeks. Subsequent gout attacks usually last longer and affect more joints. The affected joints become swollen, tender and red.

Gout occurs when urea crystals accumulate around joints, causing inflammation and intense pain that characterize gout attacks. Urea crystals form from high levels of uric acid in the blood when the kidneys do not excrete it, causing this uric acid to crystallize and gradually build up around the joints.

Available gout treatments are medicine of the first and second degree among the seven levels of medicine. The current gout medications are sometimes expensive, not a cure and have harmful side effects. 

According to the natural law of duality (where expansion = yin, contraction = yang), gout is an expansive disease (swelling, redness, pain). Gout is triggered by a passing illness or a crisis. But the underlying cause of gout, like most illnesses, is the accumulation of faulty eating habits that violate the natural law of duality and produce imbalance and lowered immunity. Gout is an illness of the third & fifth stages among the seven stages of illness. Gout is directly related to the kidneys, so the lung-pancreas should also be considered in natural treatment. Lungs-Pancreas are mother-father of the kidneys in the five elements theory of natural medicine.

The seven conditions of good health include mental well being. Gout often results in mental troubles, like psychological distress, irritability and sometimes depression. Improvement in gout results naturally in psychological improvement. Becoming less preoccupied or overwhelmed with daily physical symptoms. This allows time to relax or meditate and be more hopeful and active.

Curing gout does not require eating Japanese food

Most people believe that macrobiotics means eating exotic Japanese foods. This is a misconception. Macrobiotics is not just a diet. When we understand macrobiotics, we understand the laws of nature that govern our health and our being.

The macrobiotic diet does not work for some people. Why?

If you have gout and tried macrobiotics, particularly the #7 diet, but it did not work for you, then the foods you selected are not appropriate for your gout. Macrobiotics principles, used correctly, help select the foods to eat and the foods to avoid (some permanently and some temporarily) for treating and curing gout. Yin foods for Yang illnesses, Yang foods for Yin illnesses.

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