GOUT: how to fight it with diet...?

If I recall correctly, gout is caused by dietary deficiencies.

Edit: Actual cause is a buildup of uric acid.

My grandfather had gout - my grandmother used to give him quince - in every form imaginable: jam, juice, mousse, and plain raw. A glass of quince juice every day helps tremendously.

I have never in my life heard of quince before....

You're kidding? I even bought it here in the United States, it's available
in most grocery stores.

I just read up on it, and it may be available here, but it's not anything I've encountered.

It may be more common in the North, since it needs cold weather to thrive.

(Rhubarb is practically unknown in Texas; you can occasionally find strawberry-rhubarb pie, but never plain rhubarb pie.)

I
The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five pound note.
The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
'O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!'



II
Pussy said to the Owl, 'You elegant fowl!
How charmingly sweet you sing!
O let us be married! too long we have tarried:
But what shall we do for a ring?'
They sailed away, for a year and a day,
To the land where the Bong-tree grows
And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood
With a ring at the end of his nose,
His nose,
His nose,
With a ring at the end of his nose.




III
'Dear pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling
Your ring?' Said the Piggy, 'I will.'
So they took it away, and were married next day
By the Turkey who lives on the hill.
They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.


A quince is a type of really bitter apple that was used for jellies and cider. I have a quince bush o the back fields and Its so damn big Ill need a tactical nuke to get it out
Course, I have no idea what is a runcible spoon.

Rocky,

My husband is prone to gout and it flares up when:

he eats a lot of meat, especially pork, and
when he drinks a lot

You need to read up on it and find out your answers on a health (i.e., gout) blog, because some triggers are other than meat and alcohol. She really should see a doctor.

Oh, and my husband has pills from his doctor which relieve the pain immediately. That's another option for her.

You have to be a duck to understand

she's seeing a doctor, but my aunt had not heard anything about the diet.

I told her I would look into it, but that I thought it was one of those diet caused things.

I am testament to what eating things that disagree with you can do...

I grow rhubarb. (it's a cool looking plant.)

is quince the same as rhubarb?

mr vw has quince bushes. they have little white flowers...

Yeah, I always forget how spoiled we're here in southern California. We have a huge variety of produce and fruits to select from, and of course, rhubarb too.

No, quince is from the apple family
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quince

gout can be a problem in a protein-heavy diet. It can be prevented (not sure about reversed) by drinking copious amounts of water to flush out the uric acid before it has a chance to build up and settle in the joints. The protein-rich diet I'm on recommends a minimum of 1.5L of water daily, preferably more.

And this is regrettable.

It's the proper utensil to use when being served runcible, of course.

One can occasionally find it in the freezer section, next to the frozen blueberries.

I do not make pie. I eat pie.

If I eat pie, I must make pie first.

lucky rat...

I, on the other hand, make it but don't eat it. Unless it's homemade meat pies, in which case, yummy!