Green Papaya Fruit with Green Tea for Gout

Have you ever tried green papaya fruit with green tea as a treatment for gout?

I've been seeing about this in Facebook and I'm not sure if it really works but hey! there's no harm in trying. These are staple food anyway and you can just consume them normally just like any other food/drink.

Below is the exact content I found in Facebook. If you found this effective, please give us some feedback.

This is a really effective, just mix green papaya cubes to the ordinary green tea, my cousin-brother tried and found it very effective.

I have also shared with a friend with gout to try this (his "toe joints" started to deform), after a week of drinking this formula there is significant improvement, and after two weeks the toe joints heal and revert to normal state.

It is almost three years now, the joint pain is gone, but he maintains the intake between 1-3 times monthly to avoid relapse.

Other friends suffering from years of gout problem have also recovered. It is good for all, even those without gout. Good formula! Do share with the people in need!

An improved sequence by Professor Lai from the China School of Pharmacy:

Cut green papaya into small cubes, place into the water, bring to boil, then add tea leaves, similar to the tea-making process.

Clinical tests show that this brings better effects for treatment of gout, subject to frequent drinking of this formula.

Mr. Liu Qing, Chief of the Rende Town in Tainan, was suffering for years from severe stomach pain around the posterior wall of stomach.

He used green papaya as a tea pot to prepare the family tea daily, after a month, his chronic disease condition was much improved.

His family members with high uric acid were also healed by the same papaya tea.

For this Mr. Liu planted a lot of papaya to share with relatives and friends with similar sickness.
According to Mr. Liu, in selecting the green papaya as tea pot, pick those the shape of which is fat and short, with larger capacity.

Cut off the top part of the papaya, clear away the seeds, open a small hole at the upper side wall to facilitate pouring of tea.

Create a small ventilation hole at top cover, put in the tea leaves, pour in boiling water, place the top cover back onto the papaya, you may also use the toothpicks to secure the top cover. Similar to normal process of preparing tea.

Liu like to use Oolong tea as the taste is good.

He was pleasantly surprised that the stomach pains he suffered for many years was healed after a month of drinking tea from the green papaya pot, without taking any other medication.

He passed some green papaya leaves to a friend who worked at a Medical Center to test and analyse the content. The tests confirmed that the healthy enzyme present in papaya is beneficial to human health.

Now as papaya in Mr. Liu's orchard is yielding suitable size fruits, he would share the fruits with family and friends.

Xu Fuchang, an experienced papaya farmer, said green papaya means to unripe papaya, where the skin is still green in colour. Generally, the papaya takes about four months to fully mature and ripen, but the healing effect would be lost after it is fully ripe.

Green papaya should be harvested when the papaya is approximately three months old, when the fruit is still firm, and the "papaya milk" contains high papaya enzyme and other healthy ingredients.

Not only the green papaya can be used in tea drinking, you may also cut them into cubes, and boil with the ribs, or even slicing the green papaya into fine long pieces and fried with garlic, very tasty, and no adverse effects on the human body.

Struggling with Gout; Remedies and Prevention

My first experience with gout was in the Philippines where I stay yearly to escape Virginia’s dreary winters. I usually ate fish and fruits and I managed to lose some weight due to having more exercise and eating a lower carbohydrate diet. At first I thought it was my shoes that were causing for my foot pain, but replacing them didn’t solve the problem. The pain in my foot returned and worsened each year. My doctor diagnosed me with having inadequate arch support and gave me inserts for my shoes. After that, whenever I had an attack I assumed I was not being good enough about wearing my arch support. It never occurred to me that I had gout.

After moving to Baguio, my foot pain occurrence became more frequent. I learned that many people in Baguio got similar symptoms and they said it was gout. After researching about the ailment, I got convinced that my painful foot episodes were the result of gout attacks. Just to be really sure, I took a blood examination and confirmed that there's a high levels of uric acid present in my blood.

As you may now know, gout is caused by high levels of uric acid in the blood that forms crystals, usually in or near joints. Hands and feet are the most common place that these crystals form and in my case, they formed next to my big toe which makes walking almost impossible for me. The long thin crystals act like blades and cut into the bone and tissue which make even a slight touch on the spot can cause intense pain. And because uric acid is not very soluble in water, it is difficult to get the crystals to dissolve. Frequent attacks can cause long term damage to the joints and tissue.

The prevalence of gout meant that everyone had a lot of sympathy for me that they recommend their favorite remedy for the problem. Some recommendations were very helpful.

List of Foods to Avoid That Causes Gout

When you have gout, you have to know the foods to avoid that are high in purines that cause gout. Although purine is naturally found in the body, it is also a component in many of the foods we eat, as well as some of our favorite beverages.

It is important to know that we need purine in the body. Purines are what help to make up the chemical structure of our genes. When purines are broken down in the body, they form a substance called uric acid, which is an antioxidant that helps prevent blood vessel damage.

To avoid complications of gout, below are list of gout causing foods that are high in purines. Eating these foods in moderation will help to prevent the onset of gout, as well as prevent recurring gout attacks.

Foods with high concentration of purines include (up to 1,000 mg per 3.5 ounce portions)

• Anchovies
• Sardines
• Brain meat
• Liver and kidneys
• Beans and Legumes
• Sweetbreads

Foods with moderately high to high purine levels (5-100 mg per 3.5 ounce serving)

• Asparagus
• Bacon
• Beef
• Bluefish
• Bouillon
• Calf tongue
• Carp
• Cauliflower
• Chicken
• Codfish
• Crab
• Duck
• Goose
• Halibut
• Ham
• Lamb
• Lobster
• Mushrooms
• Mutton
• Oatmeal
• Oysters
• Perch
• Pork
• Rabbit
• Salmon
• Sheep
• Shellfish
• Snapper
• Spinach
• Tripe
• Trout
• Tuna
• Turkey
• Veal
• Venison

 Beverages that are high in purines include soft drinks, beer, and wine.

It is not that these foods are unhealthy. As a matter of fact most all of these foods are. The problem lies in the fact that they are high in purines, which can be detrimental to those who are afflicted with gout. These foods may be eaten, they just need to be eaten in moderation.

Our bodies naturally have purines already, and it is the over production of the uric acid, which is the product of purines when they are broken down or metabolized. Uric acid is then excreted by the kidneys, which lowers the uric acid levels in the blood.

If your physician has put you on a low purine diet, follow your doctor's recommendations and eat healthy.

by Barb Hicks, RN

Gout in the Spine

Some gout sufferers, though rare can get gout in the spine or the uric crystal build up in the spine causing extreme pain, numbness, back ache, tingling, and even lower extremity paralysis all without any inflammation. It is also extremely hard to distinguish these gout symptoms from a spinal infection.

Gout in the spine can create neurological symptoms (symptoms caused by a disorder or dysfunction that affects a part or all of the nervous system). This has been treated with intra-articular therapies (treatment that allows for the use of agents to be used in a localized way).

These therapies rely on an injection such as Corticosteroids that are also used in the treatment of osteoarthritis. If this method is used then the patient will require considerable rest time to help decrease steroid leakage, and increase absorption to the joints and tissue area.

If this type of treatment fails or is considered a risk, then surgery in the manner of a decompressive laminectomy can be performed. This surgery is a commonly performed to relieve pressure on the spinal cord.

Tophaceous Gout Symptoms of the spine can also be misdiagnosed as epidural infection due to the similarities of their symptoms.

Different Stages of Gout

Millions of people are affected by the medical condition known as gout. This is a condition that is caused by an excessive level of uric acid within the body. While it is common for each person to have a certain amount of this acid in their body on a regular basis, there are certain individuals that are prone to developing gout as a result of this.

Those that develop gout will experience many uncomfortable symptoms such as inflammation and pain in and around the joints of the body. Most often, gout is experienced through flare ups that occur with little to absolutely no warning. This medical condition is also marked by unique stages. In this medical guide, you will be introduced to the four distinct stages of gout.


Asymptomatic Hyperuricemia

Individuals that develop gout have an elevated amount of uric acid within the body. The first official stage of gout is referred to as asymptomatic hyperuricemia. Individuals that are in this stage of their condition often do not have any outward symptoms. Most of the people that are in this stage of gout will be informed that they are after having a blood test conducted that tests the amount of uric acid contained in the circulatory system.

Seeing that there are usually no symptoms at all experienced during this stage of gout, most medical professionals do not feel the need to treat the patient for the symptoms commonly associated with gout. In many cases, a more appropriate approach to treatment would be to make an attempt to reduce the amount of uric acid in the body.


Acute Gout

The second stage of gout is a bit more challenging than the first stage. This comes as a result of the fact that the uric acid in the body starts the process of crystallizing within the joints of the body. The individual that suffers from this stage will start to experience gout symptoms. These symptoms include inflammation within and around the joints of the body, discoloration of the skin and pain.


Interval Gout

The third stage of gout is when an individual returns to not experiencing any symptoms associated with their condition. The pain that a person experiences with gout occurs during what is called an attack. Once an attack has passed, there will be a period in which no symptoms are exhibited. This is the interval stage.


Chronic Tophaceous Based Gout

The fourth stage of gout is considered to be the most challenging of all those that are experienced. Typically, the person that experiences this will suffer from an extended amount of time before entering into this particular stage. This stage is considered to be the most disabling of all the stages.

Those that end up at this stage will most often have some type of damage as a result of the condition. For example, the joints may be damaged or the internal organs may experience a form of damage. If you have gout, it is important to learn about the four stages so that you have a good understanding of the progression of the condition.

Types of Gout

Gout is a very painful form of arthritis that affects the lower extremities of the body - particularly the big toe. Gout is caused by uric acid when it becomes built up in the blood stream to excessive levels and turns into hardened crystals or "urate crystals" that form in the area of the joints.

This condition is very painful to the sufferer and can last only a few hours in mild cases or up to as many as several weeks with soreness and pain continuing for a month thereafter. Left untreated, gout can cause severe damage to joints, cartilage, tendons and other tissues of the body.


Primary Gout and Tophi

There are two main categories of gout that include primary gout and secondary gout. When gout develops on its' own with no definitive or known cause for the build up of uric acid, it is referred to as primary gout. This type of gout primarily affects men between thirty and sixty five years of age but can affect women after menopause.

Primary gout attacks are usually acute and typically occur twice per year on average. This type of gout is typically caused by an excessive amount of uric acid being produced or when the kidneys fail to excrete the uric acid in a rapidly enough or a combination of both of these factors.

The condition known as "tophi" occurs in the advanced stages of primary gout and is when the urate crystals develop in one joint or multiple joints and also develops in the urinary tract often causing the formation of kidney stones.

Tophi can also affect other parts of the body including the bones and these uric crystal deposits can actually become large enough to break through the sufferers skin. This advanced stage is extremely painful and can cause the joints to deform to such an extent that it is disabling to the individual who suffers from it.


Secondary Gout

The most common type of gout is secondary gout that is typically caused when taking certain medications or when undergoing medical treatment such as chemotherapy but can also be caused by alcohol or an excess of purines that can be found in certain foods including trout, codfish, mackerel, anchovies, scallops, haddock, sardines, herring, mussels, bacon, gravy, kidney, goose, veal, mincemeat, liver, and venison.

Secondary gout is known to affect both women and men on an equal basis and occurs primarily in individuals who are sixty five years of age or older.


Asymptomatic gout and Inter-critical gout

When an individual has an excess amount of uric acid in the blood stream but without any of the painful symptoms normally associated with gout, this condition is called asymptomatic gout, however, when this condition reaches the later stages it can cause the symptoms of acute or painful joints.

Intercritical gout is when an individual has the condition of gout having suffered the symptoms in the past but is not experiencing them at the present time as they are in between attacks. Even if you have experienced any of the symptoms of gout and they have subsided or disappeared, you should schedule an appointment with your doctor as this condition typically will reoccur and can progress in severity over time.