Recently, I had severe ankle pain on my left foot. Pain traveled from the lower ankle bone area to the heel of the foot. Took 4 tablespoons of ACV with mother (Bragg brand) with 1/2 teaspoon of Sodium Bicarbonate (Brand Arm & Hammer) mixed with little water. This would give me in total of about 1/4 glass of mixture. Sodium Bicarbonate kills the sour taste of ACV by fuzzing and thus making it easier to drink. After drinking this 1/4 glass of mixture, I immediately would follow it with a full glass of water. I drank this mixture twice a day for 3 days. Once in the morning before breakfast and one before going to bed. In addition, I used paper towel soaked in ACV and placed it on the ankle and wrapped my ankle/partial foot with Cling wrap. Further, I would additionally drink 4 to 5 additional glass of water per day. I should have drunk more glasses of water to help remove uric acid quickly which causes gout. Result : Pain gone in 3 days.
Same approach I used for my toe, which occured 4 years ago. The mistake I always make is not drinking enough water. I hope this info may help some one.
Rob (Kentucky) on 07/12/2025
Wintergreen Essential Oil –
When you go across the sea to England you will find Wintergreen Oil is currently recognized in their official medical book, the British Herbal Pharmacopoeia as a specific remedy for rheumatoid arthritis. That means if you have joints, muscles and tendons, bones or nerves that hurt and you put Wintergreen Oil on the area externally, it fixes it. Wintergreen works in two ways, one way is to quickly relieve discomfort and the other way is to break up the uric acid or other deposits. Then the body can flush them out. This is why we say you should also drink a large glass of clean natural water. Even better, you can drink a diuretic tea. This is a tea which will encourage the kidneys to go to work. As examples, try Peppermint tea or Alfalfa tea to flush the crystals and wastes out of the body that the Wintergreen Oil breaks loose. It should also be mentioned here that this new disease you hear so much about called fibromyalgia is very similar to what used to be called by the old fashioned word "rheumatism". It just so happens that Wintergreen Oil can be used externally for rheumatism with pretty good results.
The benefits of wintergreen EO stem from its main compound, methyl salicylate (about 98%). Its analgesic effects rival that of the traditional over-the-counter painkillers, such as aspirin.
I’ve seen formulas back in the early 1900s with amounts of wintergreen oil as high as 10-40% dilution ratio with a carrier oil like olive and peanut oil and massage the joint pain areas and rub the pain away. Ringmaster Pain Relief Rubbing Oil (told to him by George Washington Carver and invented around 1950) Pain Relief formula conatins 40% Methyl Salicylate (wintergreen oil) 60% peanut oil.
Similar product from Philippines that falls under the old school proprietary medicines is EFFICASCENT OIL and can be found online. It contains (Methyl Salicylate 21% “wintergreen” + Camphor + Menthol + Eucalyptus Oil + Mineral Oil.
I make a very similar formula at 35% Menthyl Salicylate that I use on people with gout. The last time I used it was on a young man who had been grossly overweight but managed to loose most of the weight but suffered from gout in his knees. After 3 days of applying my formula, his gout in the knees was gone. I spoke to him one year later and asked if it had returned… he said NO
Baking Soda for Gout tin foil hats ahoy there (australia) on 04/19/2025
I've had gout for 20 years. 1st in big toe, over the years it moved up my body each time: knees, ankles, elbows, wrists, hands, fingers, shoulders, toes, hips, neck. Only my spine left now. get it in multiple joints, and cannot move for up to 6 weeks ata time. No matter what I eat. I don't drink. Cherries, ginger, all of it, nothing changed it. I refuse to be glued at the hip to the lying-murdering parasitic-medical/pharmaceutical gate keepers, begging for medicine every few months, so they can get paid for a 10c signiture & go home feeling like a hero everyday. Rich. I thought I had cancer, only thing I could afford was bi-carb as far as out of industry cures goes. so I tried it. 5 months later my issues were gone, I dont know, I had no scans but was willing to die rather than visit those evil cold hearted gutless bastards. A freind said to me...u havnt had gout much lately. I used to get it non stop. ok for 2 weeks max, down for 6, repeat. all year. I hadn't had it for 5 months when he said this to me. he asked, "u changed your diet have you"? "no. But yeah thats weird. I didnt realise. preoccupied that christmas with my other issue I guess. I thought backwards, what had I changed? what was different? in how I lived. 1 teaspoon bi-carbin glass of water over a day, daily. thats what I had changed. And so I searched the internet for a link between the two, gout and bi-carb. And sure enough, its an alkaline, the exact reason I read it can cure cancer. All formal sites (wikipedia etc etc) said it didnt work, it was dangerous...immediately then I knew as I have learned how these scum operate in the last few years as maybe some of you might've aswell if u have time to turn the t.v off and find your own answers, not the ones you are fed, which is now obvious to me, Things truly are that reversed. But no one believes me. they wanna trust the ones who are out to hurt us and take all freedom. they can't see it though. This works. I'm tellin ya...don't eat shell fish, drink beer or wine, and don't let them addict u to thier medicines and appointments. its all bullshit im sorry to say. I'm 50 now. and thank god I found this when I did. and found out the world we live it is scripted, and we're slowly being trapped. so slowly that no one can believe it. I found out just by chance. You do not need them...unless u choose to need them. I think last few years clearly prove that, but its hard to be the outsider, to go against everyone else. They have the cures, like this....but they will never ever let us know if they cannot control it. so they never will. The old home cures have been forgotten on purpose through time. But they exist. Cancer never existed...most things. Its in the injections we get as children, I now know, no one should be injecting anything into someone elses body, we do not own our children, they should decide when old enough. Because none of that is needed, only to cut our lifespans short and many other consequences that created this industry owned by rockefella...Standard oil inc. Thats what he did with the oil money. bought the entire thing. your outcomes have been planned.
Chanca Piedra (Stonebreaker) for Gout mho (Provo) on 11/15/2024
My husband spent a sleepless night with a bad gout attack, first ever for him. His big toe was swollen and red. I gave him a capsule of Stonebreaker the next morning. Twelve hours later his pain was so reduced he was able to sleep well that night. I gave him another capsule that evening. By the next morning he was pain free. Stonebreaker is very effective against kidney stones, too.
Apigenin for Gout Ella (London) on 07/20/2024
Hello, Don't know if you want to add this note to your 'recent comments' section for Gout Remedies or not. Many people cite cherries, celery and chamomile as effective natural remedies. The common denominator of all three is a compound called Apigenin which prevents uric acid from being reabsorbed. Chamomile tea contains the highest amount of Apigenin.
Red Light Therapy For Gout DebraM (Sydney, Australia) on 06/19/2024
I have had an agonizing pain come up in my big toe over the years and only just realized it's gout. I knew that cherries helped with gout so I started drinking cherry juice and eating jars of cherries but when I did, I felt the gout everywhere in my body, my wrists, neck, jaw, lung, shoulder blades, it was agonizing. I remembered last time it flared in my big toe, I used a wand I have that has infrared heat, near infrared light and negative ion release and when I used it on my big toe years ago, it didn't come back for years. So I'm using it again now and the pain in my toe is almost completely gone. Red light therapy is amazing for pain conditions.
Best Ever Gout Cure Petrolmica (Tasmania) on 06/06/2024
This is my 2nd bout of gout and on my other big toe.
I have been taking anti inflammatory meds for 5 days along with celery tabs and drinking "ural" and water and lemon juice drinks. This has has made an improvement but still in pain and walking with a limp still.
I had woken up during the night in more pain than usual on the 6th day.
The next day I did more research on the net and decided to do the following:
1) Soak my toe/foot in the hottest water I could stand for about 20/30min
2) Then straight after I used a massager on high vibration and put my foot on it firmly for around 20min, concentrating on the painful area of my joint and around my whole toe area.
Within a couple of hours I couldn't believe it! ....I could walk normally with all my weight on my foot and just a bare minimum of pain. I woke up and was still the same.
I will be doing this method again today and for the next few days or more.
I believe the hot water loosened or help dissolve the crystals and the vibration helped remove them from my joint.
Please try this for yourself as if it worked for me it may work for you.
Vitamin C for Gout Donna (WI) on 06/03/2024
For Gout:
High potency vitamin C.
A-C Carbamide for Gout Jay (Coos Bay) on 04/10/2024
I had suffered with a painful ankle for a long time. It hurt so badly, I actually wondered if I had cracked a bone and didn’t know it.
Looking on earth clinic for a cure for my sisters gout problem, I suddenly wondered if I too might have gout. I had seen a chiropractor on you tube recommending a product by standard process called A-C Carbamide for gout. I just so happened to have some I had bought for my husband for another condition, so I tried it just before bed. Woke up with no pain in my ankle after weeks of excruciating pain. Since then I have had gout flare up in different joints. Each time I think I must have cracked a bone it’s so painful and literally made me cry it ached so bad. Finally a light bulb will go on and I’ll think, hey, maybe it’s gout! And I will take the pills and the pain will go away. I’ve discovered painful joints start after eating sugar. If I take one capsule a day I usually can prevent any flare ups, unless I eat sugar several days in a row. Then I’ll take three capsules to get rid of the pain. Usually only takes one day, but a few times two or three days. But it ALWAYS works. I hope this helps someone as there is no pain like gout. Just horrible. I believe sugar is the culprit, not meat.
Castor Oil for Gout jjames (Cleveland, Ohio) on 03/25/2024
My husband had recurring gout near big toe area. Last time he had it, we put castor oil pack (spread oil on foot area affected, covered it with oil-infused sock. covered that with plastic bag (used food baggie), covered that with clean sock. He wore it overnight and part of next day. Repeated this for 2-3 days. Foot was very much improved after 1st application and after 3 days healed. The time BEFORE that when he had gout, we did nothing - he had it very painful for 3 months ( a very long time to have gout).
Activated Charcoal and Gout Kay (Redstone, Colorado) on 03/06/2024
Gout and activated charcoal
Has anyone tried monitoring their uric acid levels with pee strips? Has anyone used activated charcoal to keep gout at bay and if so, was it successful?
Thank you.
Apple Cider Vinegar for Gout Pauline (Suffolk, England) on 02/12/2024
Apple cider vinegar does work on gout!
I came on this site earlier because I woke up with a painful toe joint this morning. I read a comment about apple cider vinegar being used internally and externally and lo and behold this afternoon I am able to walk without any pain!! Thank you!
Apple Cider Vinegar for Gout Liz (Victoria, Australia) on 01/28/2024
What a great product ACV is, I always have a bottle in the cupboard, I had Gout in my left foot 2 days ago and looked up remedies here on Earth Clinic and the top remedy is ACV, I immediately took 2 tablespoons in half a glass of water and within a few hours the pain was gone, when I woke the next day I could stand on my foot and no pain, I then took 2 more tablespoons in water just in case and it has not returned, if you have had Gout you will know how quickly it comes on and how painful it is. Earth Clinic is a wonderful site with so many great remedies and contributors. Art, Rob, Mama, Bill, etc. all helpful people.
Black Cherry Juice for Gout Diane (Pennsylvania) on 10/24/2023
Black Cherry Juice Concentrate for Gout
I had a second gout attack this year, which began a couple of weeks ago (left big toe). The first time it happened, I drank lemon juice, and it took it away in a day. This time, it went on almost a week, until I was at my wit's end, and I called the local health food store. The lady who owns it told me to use Black Cherry juice. 1 TBSP black cherry juice CONCENTRATE with 3 TBSP water. So my sweet husband went right away and picked some up for me. Within one hour after the first does, the pain began to subside from a 9 to a 3. After two more doses, the pain left entirely. It did take a few days for the redness and the pain to the touch only, along the left side of my foot to go away.
Before trying the black cherry juice, I tried the lemon juice, baking soda, apple cider vinegar (with the mother), celery seed, tart cherry juice, and even the activated charcoal.
Baking Soda for Gout CK (Virginia) on 10/13/2023
Gout? It's caused by acid. And a small amounts of baking soda reduces acidity (increases Ph) VERY fast. Had gout eight different times over 40 years. Couldn't even walk. Added one teaspoon of Baking Soda to a small glass of water and drank 3 of them on day one, two on day two and one on day three. Completely gone by the third day, every time. Never fails.
Bentonite Clay for Gout Beto (TX) on 04/22/2023
I recently had the first gout attack of my life. One of the worst pains I ever had, along with jaw bone infection and kidney pain.
What helped was bentonite clay plasters applied externally. I always keep bentonite clay and so I made a thick plaster that wrapped most of the forefoot. Then I placed my foot in a plastic bag, tied the bag handles loosely around my ankle, and punctures a few small holes on the bag (top side). It's very important to let bentonite breathe because the evaporative effect is what draws the toxins. When the clay is nearly drying, it needs to be replaced with fresh one and the old one discarded as it has absorbed lots of toxic materials.
The main problem with clay plasters is that they are somewhat slow in acting, so the first night I did not sleep from the extreme pain. But after approx. 24 hours the pain had subsided enough and after 3 days was nearly gone.
The second day I tried skipping the clay plaster and the night the pain grew worse again keeping me awake. Then the 3rd day I reapplied a generous amount and the improvement was confirmed.
So clay is not the fastest remedy, but it works.
Apple Cider Vinegar and Baking Soda for Gout Marlon (Orlando, FL) on 04/08/2023
I have been having issues with gout now for the past 6 years. My last attack before this one was just about 2 years ago and I have since changed my diet by cutting out most meat and beer and that seemed to help for a while until this last attack in my ankle. After a couple of days I could not take the pain anymore and I try to avoid prescription medication so I found this site and saw the relief ACV gave a lot of people and decided to try it, I did 2 tbl and 1/2 tsp baking soda with 8 oz of water and a tsp of honey 2 times per day and by the end of the 2nd day of taking this the pain had been almost gone. This is now day 6 of taking this and my ankle is almost back to being normal. EC is a truly blessed site and I will be looking here for all my treatments
Burdock for Gout Stuman (Oceanside, CA) on 02/05/2023
What makes burdock root particularly interesting to gout sufferers is that the herb is a very powerful xanthine oxidase inhibitor, the enzyme in the body that produces uric acid. Blocking this enzyme is how the prescription drugs like Allopurinol and Febuxostat decrease uric acid levels in the blood.
https://goutandyou.com/gout-and-burdock-root/#:~:text=What makes burdock root particularly, acid levels in the blood.
In the past I've successfully used celery seeds for gout pain. This time the celery seeds worked but the pain came back 4 times in different location on my left foot and ankle. The burdock seems to stop the crystals from forming.
A good approach would be:
- stop eating high purine food and stop overeating. When I overate low purine food, it seemed to cause a flare up.
- Eat burdock to prevent crystal formation. I've been eating about 2-4 ounces of the root as food 3-5 times a day.
- Remove the crystal in the joint with celery seed and lots of water.
- Reduce the swelling turmeric and resveratrol helped short term but I eventually used the pharmaceutical Aleve for 12 hour relief.
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Collagen Prevented Gout Rh (Iowa) on 12/29/2022
I use to get gout terribly. 3 years ago I bought a liquid collagen supplement and take it daily. No gout for 3 years. Lately I have gotten off schedule and missed my daily dose for 2 or 3 days and I have a gout flare up.
Apple Cider Vinegar Dosage for Gout Usman N. (Columbia, MD) on 08/07/2022
Apple Cider Vinegar Dosage for Gout
The key is to increase the dosage to 4 tablespoons per glass of water with 1 teaspoon of honey 3 to 4 times a day. As per my blood work for uric acid it was 10(mg/dL) and it needed to be under 4.5(mg/dL). I am diabetic and have a stunt in my artery, so I take heart medication. I started with the above dosage once a day for the first day. Second day twice a day. Third day three times a day. Fourth day four times a day. Fifth day, I was able to walk. I maintained this dosage till the seventh day. Remarkable improvement. I hope it will help.
