"Soaking Lycium barbarum in a thermos cup" is a health-preserving mode suitable for all ages. Young people after 90 s and 00 s even developed a punk health-preserving mode of "putting Lycium barbarum in beer" (a health-preserving mode that saves themselves while hurting the body). It can be seen that Lycium barbarum is the most dazzling star in the health circle.
Just recently, some netizens asked me: "Dr. Qiao, I have seen many traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions for gout, including Lycium barbarum; I happen to have Lycium barbarum at home. Does eating more Lycium barbarum every day help reduce uric acid? "
Dr. Qiao, who is not from Chinese medicine, found that there are indeed many Chinese medicine prescriptions and proprietary Chinese medicines for gout, all of which use medlar.
1. Jiawei Danggui Sini Decoction
Comprise Chinese angelica, white peony root, pawpaw, coix seed, rhizoma Atractylodis, Akebia stem, radix rehmanniae, radix scrophulariae, Xu Changqing, cortex Phellodendri, ramulus Cinnamomi, Asari and licorice.
Addition and subtraction: Rhizoma Anemarrhenae, Gypsum Fibrosum and Ramulus Mori are added for patients with acute swelling and pain; In the chronic stage, Radix Astragali, Fructus Lycii and Fructus Corni are added.
2. Dabuyin Pill
Indications: yin deficiency of liver and kidney
Comprises Rhizoma Anemarrhenae, Cortex Phellodendri, Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Carapax et Plastrum Testudinis, Fructus Lycii, Fructus Corni, Cortex Moutan, Radix Paeoniae Rubra, Cortex Erythrinae, Radix Cyathulae and Caulis Lonicerae.
Addition and subtraction: Artemisia annua and Gentiana macrophylla are added for those with obvious hot flashes; Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis and Concha Ostreae are added for those with obvious night sweats; Semen Sinapis Albae and Squama Manis are added for phlegm and blood stasis.
3. Liuwei Dihuang Decoction
Indications: yin deficiency of liver and kidney
Ingredients: Rhizoma Dioscoreae, Fructus Corni, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Poria, Cortex Moutan, Cortex Phellodendri, Rhizoma Anemarrhenae, Fructus Lycii, Fructus Ligustri Lucidi, Achyranthis Radix and Rhizoma Atractylodis.
4. Anti-gout capsule
Adaptation: acute gouty arthritis
Ingredients: Zaocys, papaya, Coix seed, safflower, black sesame, medlar, etc.
Lycium barbarum appears in the prescription for gout. You asked me whether Lycium barbarum can reduce uric acid, and let me explain the function of traditional Chinese medicine with western medicine theory. Obviously, this is a little difficult for me.
From the perspective of Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine prescriptions pay attention to "compatibility of seven emotions", and each Chinese medicine in a prescription has a "main direction" and has a clear therapeutic effect; There is also "auxiliary", which can strengthen the curative effect of "main attack"; There are also "medical soldiers" who can reduce or eliminate the side effects of another drug ... not all the drugs in the traditional Chinese medicine prescription for treating gout are effective for treating gout.
Take Dabuyin Pill as an example. Lycium barbarum and Radix Rehmanniae Preparata are compatible, and they must be used mutually, and are used for liver and kidney yin deficiency syndrome. "Xu Xiang" means that the performance and curative effect of the two drugs are similar, and the combination can enhance the original curative effect.
From the point of view of modern medicine, there is not enough evidence to prove that Lycium barbarum can reduce uric acid, but many researchers have been studying this topic.
The main medicinal components of Lycium barbarum are Lycium barbarum polysaccharide, betaine, carotenoids, flavonoids and vitamins, among which betaine deserves our attention. Gout patients are familiar with it, and doctors often prescribe sodium bicarbonate tablets as adjuvant therapy to alkalize urine and help uric acid excretion.
Betaine is also an alkaloid, which widely exists in animals and plants. It is an intermediate product of animal metabolism, a very important osmotic adjustment substance, and plays a very important role in the metabolism of nutrients. So does it also have the function of regulating the filtration and reabsorption of uric acid by the kidney?
New progress in research on uric acid reduction of Lycium barbarum extract
20 17 the experimental animal center of Shenyang pharmaceutical university studied the effect of Lycium barbarum on reducing uric acid, and carried out experiments on mice with Lycium barbarum extract.
It was found that serum uric acid level, xanthine oxidase activity, TNF-α and IL- 1β levels in the high and middle dose groups of Lycium barbarum extract decreased significantly (P