For the lead image on my Home Remedies For Gout page, I couldn’t resist this photo from flickr.

Big time water drinker from Drew Stephens says it all – Drink Water – Big Time. OK, 5 gallons a time might be just a little too much, but if you have gout, you need to get the water habit.

Drew’s photograph is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license, as is my derived version.

Anti-inflammatory Herbs

Reduction of urate crystal-induced inflammation by root extracts from traditional oriental medicinal plants: elevation of prostaglandin D2 levels. July 2007, Sung Mun Jung et al. Traditional Chinese herbal root extracts of Siberian Ginseng, Dong Quai (Chinese Angelica), and Baikal Skullcap, reduced the inflammatory immune response to urate crystals in mice.

Though this investigation deals with artificially induced gout in mice, the researchers anticipate it could be effective in dealing with the joint inflammation processes in human gouty arthritis.