Uric acid | Natural simple home cure

High uric acid level (hyper-uricemia) is a high concentration of uric acid in the blood. Uric acid is the bi-product of metabolism. Uric acid is normally eliminated from the blood using the kidneys through urine. Elevated levels of uric acid do not cause illness immediately. But chronic elevated uric acid levels can lead to gout, high blood pressure, heart disease, kidney stones or kidney failure.

Factors leading to high levels of uric acid

● Diuretic medications

● Excessive alcohol consumption

● Excessive caffeine consumption

● Heredity

● Hypo-thyroidism

● Leukemia

● Obesity

● Psoriasis

● Protein-rich diet

● Some immune-suppressing drugs

Traditional uric acid treatment

The same treatment used for gout is sometimes used for uric acid.

Available uric acid treatments are medicine of the first degree among the seven levels of medicine. The current uric acid medications are expensive, not a cure and often have serious side effects.

Uric acid in alternative natural medicine

According to the natural law of duality (where expansion = yin, contraction = yang), uric acid is an expansive illness (acid). Uric acid is triggered by a passing illness or crisis. But the underlying cause of uric acid, like most illnesses, is the accumulation of faulty eating habits that violate the natural law of duality producing imbalance and lowered immunity. Uric acid is an illness of the third stage among the seven stages of illness. Uric acid is directly related to the kidneys, so the lungs-pancreas should also be considered in natural treatment. Lungs-pancreas are mother-father of the kidneys in the five elements theory of natural medicine.

Uric acid natural alternative treatment and cure

Food is best natural treatment. Foods affect uric acid positively or adversely depending on their type. Foods that restore natural balance cure uric acid naturally without side effects. Uric acid is expansive, and foods that cause expansion (Sugar, sweets and vitamin C, etc.) will elevate uric acid. Foods that cause contraction will naturally cure uric acid and restore it to normal. With the right diet, uric acid can be lowered to normal. It takes from a month to several months to cure uric acid depending on its severity and cause.

Healthy mind in a healthy body

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

Uric acid & macrobiotics

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

Uric acid and vitamin & mineral supplements

Food is best medicine. With a carefully designed diet for uric acid, there is no need for vitamin and mineral supplements. Some supplements can elevate uric acid when taken randomly. Vitamin C & folic acid can have severe adverse effects on uric acid.