Charries, cure for gout?

**Pleater** · 28th July 15, 02:27 AM

My local supermarkets have been selling cherries rather cheaply and I have been buying them ever since the price dropped.

From time to time in recent years I've had a painful joint in my foot, which - despite my diet and drinking habits - seemed to be a classic, but fortunately mild attack of gout.

I have been free of 'twinges' for far longer than usual - and coincidentally found an advert for a cherry elixir supposed to cure gout by increasing the output of uric acid. Apparently some component of cherries increases its solubility.

Purely in the spirit of scientific interest, and firmly convinced that a few cherries every day are going to cause no damage to anyone who is mindful of the stones, I would suggest that anyone afflicted with the annoyance of gout obtains a supply and discovers for themselves the efficacy - or not - of this supposed cure.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

**GrainReaper** · 28th July 15, 03:21 AM

I too have a mild bit of gout in my foot... I haven't had any notable pain recently but haven't tied it to me gorging myself on cherries lately, like you they were cheap at the market and I do love them, so I've been buying a lot of them in the past few weeks.

Who'd have thought cherries can reduce gout pain?

**RSHAW** · 28th July 15, 05:15 AM

Yes, I believe there are gout sufferers who are helped by eating cherries. I have a young friend, in her twenties, otherwise quite fit who suffers from very advanced gout. She does believe that cherries do help.

**James Hood** · 1st August 15, 10:05 AM

Thank you, Anne. 'Do not have gout however do appreciate the passing along of your and others' wisdom.

'HAVE had great success with eating raw broccoli as a way to prevent hand cramping. As bass player for church and in a blues band and a home guitar picker, there is now always a stalk of green broccoli and tub of sour cream in the house. NO more cramping, ya-hoo!

A retired anesthesiologist, our band's guitar player, was the source of this pearl of diatetic wisdom, thanks, John!

**Pleater** · 1st August 15, 04:18 PM

Interesting - as I am just getting ready to go off to a folk festival I will keep that in mind, just in case it is needed.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

**Techguy** · 2nd August 15, 05:10 AM

Gout is too much uric acid in the blood which turns into crystals in the Joins, Like the big toe, unless you have ever had it, its hard to describe the pain, Cause of gout are drink, stuff like sea food, parmesan cheese, red meet, but ironically fruit sugars stop the body from expelling the uric acid, anything alkaline will pull the levels back, i find Diafeen works to take the pain away and loads of water. they say red wine can cause it, but i think its a lot more than that, Cherries are alkaline, but when one feels the twinge coming on one is in trouble.

**unixken** · 2nd August 15, 09:09 AM

For those who've never felt the effects of gout, I've had two attacks in the last 6 or 8 years, each lasting several weeks. As you lie in bed at night, a mere brush of the weight of your sheets against your foot will awaken you RIGHT NOW from the deepest sleep, make you sweat profusely, and immediately put you to tears. Walking is impossible, and "limping" is only doable by displacing all of your weight to the outside of your foot. Imagine a blacksmith shoving a sharp, glowing, red hot poker through your foot. That would be a "good day", for a gout sufferer.

**GrainReaper** · 2nd August 15, 07:39 PM

I have an occasional gout flair up. Yes it hurts like the dickens, but 15 years of an endless barrage of kidney stones has sorta taken the edge off the pain threshold... I work a normal day while a 5-6mm stone is on the move with maybe an aspirin or two, and gout flair ups are now in the range of a jammed toe as far as pain goes. What once sent me to the floor curled up in a ball or bedridden in pain is now more of a nuisance...

Thank you increasing age, iffy diet, and shoddy genetics!
I now have such a high pain threshold I could probably slam my hand in a car door and not even blink.

**NYClark** · 5th August 15, 08:18 AM

Recent studies show that cilantro can reduce uric acid and help with gout. "2 sprigs a day" If you are one of the people who can taste the "stink bug" molecule in cilantro then this won't be easy to do. But if you cannot taste the chemical, (E)-2-decenal, then it is worth a shot. I've had one bout of gout and drank quarts of cherry juice. (my cherrie tree was not fruiting at the time)