1. Try a Cabbage Poultice
Boil two to three leaves of raw cabbage in enough water to cover them completely. Keep boiling them until the leaves are soft, and then wrap them in a thin, natural-fiber cloth, like cotton, to form a poultice. Place the cabbage poultice against the gouty area for 2 to 3 hours, two to four times a day. Within a couple of days, you should start to notice a dramatic reduction in pain. Keep up with this daily procedure for as long as you continue to have gout pain. If you’re able to find it, use organic cabbage, so you won’t risk contaminating yourself with insecticides.
2. Eat the Right Fruit
Going on a banana fast is used in Indian Ayurvedic medicine as a way to cure gout naturally. To do the banana fast, simply eat six to eight bananas every day for 2 to 4 days. Make sure you also drink lots of water while you’re doing this, and don’t eat any other kind of food during the fasting period. The longer you can go eating nothing but bananas, the better chance you’ll have of putting a permanent end to your gout symptoms.
If you can’t stomach that many bananas, you can also try eating three to four apples a day or living on nothing but grapes for 2 to 4 days. Apples and grapes remove toxins from your system and eliminate the uric-acid buildup that is causing the gout. Organically grown fruit is always the best choice, but if you can’t find organic, make sure you thoroughly wash the skins of any apples or grapes before you eat them.
3. Take the Apple-Cider Vinegar Cure
Mix 3 to 4 tsp. of organic apple-cider vinegar with the same amount of raw honey in an 8 oz. glass of water. Drink this mixture three to four times a day until the symptoms of gout start to go away, usually within a week or less. This mixture breaks up uric-acid deposits and moves them out of your body, eliminating the gout.
4. Give Yourself a Healing Massage
Boil 3 to 4 tbsp. of vinegar with eight to nine rose petals, stirring constantly until the petals have dissolved into the vinegar. Allow the mixture to cool. Then, massage it into the gouty joint three to four times a day until your symptoms go away. Plain, white vinegar works fine for this, or you can use organic apple-cider vinegar.
About this Author
Stephanie Varney is a former professor at Marist College with more than a decade of freelance writing experience. Her areas of interest include autoimmune diseases, reproductive and mental health, alternative health therapies, allergies and environmental issues. She has been a committed vegetarian for 14 years and a vegan for 5.
