Certain foods, such as meat and some fish, which contain high levels of purine, should be avoided when gout occurs. However, other joints can be vulnerable as well, including the mid foot, ankles, knees, wrist, and even the fingers. Typically in the joints of the big toes. When uric acid crystallizes, the tiny crystals take on the shape of needles and, like needles, they jab their way into our joints, with extremely painful results. In people with gout, the body does not produce enough of the digestive enzyme uricase, which is an enzyme that changes the, normally insoluble, uric acid into a much more soluble form that the body's metabolism can deal with, and get rid of.

So, ask in your local health food store, or local medical herbalist, if they nata stocks of uricase for sale. Uric acid is a by product of certain foods, so gout is.

Lack of uricase can cause uric acid to accumulate in the in the blood and tissues, and to crystallize.

Gout, or hyperuricemia, (elevated uric acid levels), is actually a form of arthritis, a condition which is caused by an excess of Uric acid in the blood stream, tissues, and urine.