Universal Gout Pill for the Upper, Middle, and Lower

醫方集解

Phellodendron (stir-fried with wine), Atractylodes (washed with rice water), Arisaema (prepared with ginger) 2 liang each; Massa Medicata Fermentata (stir-fried), Ligusticum, Persica seed (peeled, tipped, pounded), Gentian, Stephania, Angelica dahurica 1 liang each; Notopterygium, Clematis (mixed with wine), Cinnamon Twig 3 qian; Carthamus 2 qian. Make into pills with flour paste.

Pill: 4-6 g at a time, taken warm after meals. It can also be changed into a Decoction: boil nine bowls of water down to three bowls, and take one bowl warm after each of the three meals.

湯劑

Dispel wind and eliminate dampness, invigorate blood and Clear heat.

The patterns of gout differ as cold, warm, heat, phlegm, and blood; they cause generalized pain or localized pain with burning heat. This formula treats them all.

Wind-cold-damp pain: add Saposhnikovia and Angelica pubescens. -- Blood deficiency impediment pain: add Angelica sinensis and wine-prepared white peony. -- Qi deficiency aching pain: add ginseng and astragalus. -- Dampness fixed swelling pain: add Coix seed and Poria.