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Mom was right– wear your scarf. In Chinese Medicine, the cold air enters the body more easily at the neck. We call the acupuncture point located on the upper back ‘wind door’, indicating the ease at which people can get sick by cold air on this area. This is why turtlenecks and decorative scarves are worn in winter.

Now we know that uric acid that is the issue in gout goes out of the body through the kidney. What if someone is dehydrated

and does not drink enough water? How could the uric acid get out if he doesn’t drink enough water? The answer is he can’t and gout is a result. We also look it how to support the kidney so that it can function normally. If someone is drinking enough water, the kidney should be able to get rid of the acid. If it can’t we support the kidney with foods that benefit it. For example, fish oil is very supportive to the kidney. So are parsley, and dandelion leaf.

We can also look at herbs taken in a capsule that support the kidney and urinary tract, like cranberry and juniper. Your Naturopath or herbalist can help come up with a formula that can address your specific needs.

Thousands of people in the US have gout. Fortunately, not only is this preventable, it is also reversible! That’s right! First, let’s go over what causes gout. Gout is caused when too much uric acid builds up in the body. Uric acid comes from protein we eat and should be disposed of by the kidney. If the kidney can’t dispose of the uric acid, then it builds up in the body.

Medical doctors try their best to help those with gout by giving a drug that lowers uric acid levels. Read the next post to see how Naturopathic doctors can help you resole these symptoms for good.

When your Naturopath recommends something to help with your symptom, she is recommending something that helps with your overall health. That is the only way that we truly get better. So if your symptom is your skin, but your Naturopath recommends something

that she says helps your liver, it is because the liver processes toxins that for you aren’t getting processed and are coming out the skin, literally.We have symptoms because something in the body is not working correctly, but the symptom usually isn’t where the problem is.

This is a common issue for natural health consumers. Natural health consumers want to know how things work and ask a lot of questions. They will ask their medical doctor questions also. However, for many drugs, scientists don’t actually know how the drug works. Many drugs we find out how the work by accident. For example, Viagra used to be a heart drug, and so did Rogaine. But, now we have other uses for them.

In comparison, we don’t know exactly how many natural products work, but what we look at is data over the past hundreds or thousands of years, to see what different herbs or compounds have been successfully used for.