Gout
HYD
from Hydrothermic Remedies...
Treatment:
- Fomentations 15min every 3 hours some patients prefer cold packs
- Hot Blanket Pack
- Wet Sheet Pack
- charcoal by mouth - 2teaspoons, 4x a day, 10days
- charcoal baths and Charcoal Poultice
- Mud bath
- Drink plenty of water
- Therapeutic Diet
- Early to bed, late nights damage joints
JHK
from Dr JH Kellogg's Prescriptions...
General Method:
- Similar to Lithemia
- Aseptic Diet - fruit, dextrinised cereals
- NO - meat, milk, eggs, tea, coffee, alcohol and tobacco
- Daily exercise to perspiration, then short cooling treatment
Pathological Problems:
Acute Gout:
- Hepatic Headache
- Migraine - with Hot Enema, Hot Foot Bath, and Fomentations to Stomach, spine, and Spinal Alternate Applications
- Constipation
- Painful Haemorrhoids
- Pruritus Ani
- Swollen Painful Joints
- Fevers
- Renal Inactivity
- Delirium
- Gastroenteritis
- Diarrhoea
- Fainting
Contra-indications:
- Avoid Cold Immersions of part and whole body
Chronic Gout:
JHK
from Dr JH Kellogg's Hydriatic Techniques...
Problems:
Treatment:
- hot treatment to heat the body slightly then...
- moderate Tonic avoiding painful joints
- Russian Bath
- Graduated Tonic Cold
- Local Eliminative
- Scotch Douche after sweating treatment
Caution
- Keep all heat treatments brief to avoid weakening resistance
GKA
from Dr GK Abbott's Prescriptions...
3 causes:
- diet too rich in purines
- defective and deficient nucleoprotein and uric acid breakdown
- decreased purine elimination due to Renal Inactivity
Problems:
Treatment:
- Purine-free Diet
- Low protein diet
Breakdown of the products of nucleoprotein digestion is increased by increasing blood oxygen by:
- Outdoor exercise even sleeping outdoors
- Vegetarian diet
General treatment:
Local heat to painful joints see Swollen Painful Joints with
- Graduated Tonic Cold in interval depending on condition
- Electric Light Bath
- Effervescent Bath
If Obesity or Emaciation see Rheumatoid Arthritis - often caused by spa treatment
see also Swollen Painful Joints