Homeopathy for Gout

What remedies are homeopathic for a gouty attack?

Where homeopathy is concerned the above question is inappropriate, for each case of gout would have to be individualized and treated accordingly. From a classical point of view there is no such a thing as a remedy for gout, or migraine, or whatever else you might be suffering from. There are thousands of remedies and any number of these might fit your individual case, a homeopath is not concerned with the name of your disease, they are concerned with your dis-ease state, and will treat accordingly, individually and mostly successfully.

However, from another non classical viewpoint there are a number of remedies in homeopathic materia medica  which have gouty symptoms attached to them, and may treat your gout successfully. Because your case has not been individualized here, you may find that the remedies may have a palliative effect similar to prescription drugs, but not with their side effects, and may therefore not cure your condition, but only alleviate it.

No doubt anyone experiencing a gouty attack wouldn't give a hoot what the remedy was, just as long as it stopped the pain, pronto!  Under these demanding circumstances Colchium 30c can bring resolution to an attack, and would then need to be repeated every second day for sometime. Benzoic Acid 200c could be given for the more chronic form of gout with tophi, this also would have to be repeated every second day for sometime. Cimicifuga 30 can give relief where multiple small joints are affected, and not so much evidence of inflammation, again repetition every second day would be necessary.

Natrum Muriaticum  6x has been found to be successful in bringing relief to an acute attack of gout. When the heart is weak Aurum muriaticum 3x works wonders, and Aurum muriaticum naturatum 3x is indicated when the patient has copius sweating. Jaborandi has also produced good results.These remedies were used to treat gout by a Dr Compton Burnet in the nineteenth century.

He also had huge success treating gout with Urtica urens, so much so that he became known as Dr Urtica. He noted that when he treated his patients with urtica urens/stinging nettle they passed large quantities of gravel, so urtica became his number one treatment for gouty attacks.

He goes on to say that not all cases of gout will react in a positive manner to Urtica, for it's impossible to expect uniform results, and this is the argument for using  classical homeopathy, for each case is treated individually.

Other remedies used by Dr Compton Burnett were Urea, Uric Acid, Daphne, Mezereum, Physalis alkekengi, Bryonia, Rhus tox, Pulsatilla, and Bacillinum, and many others in accordance with the presenting indications of the individual case.

Although Dr Burnett observed that Urtica urens removed gravel from the system, he noted that this remedy did not remove the gouty diathesis, that always needed further treatment with deeper acting and more appropriate homeopathic remedies. Read more:Herbs for Gout