Soursop Leaves for Gout

Soursop Leaves for Gout - Soursop plant (Annona muricata), very popular tropical plant as a refreshing sweet fruit. It can be consumed fresh, juiced, or mixed into drinks. The most suitable place for soursop in in area that contains enough water. Every 100 grams of soursop contains 65 calories, 1 g protein, 0.3 g fat, and 16.3 grams of carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamins A, B, C. Soursop leaves extract also contains caffeine, hydrocyanic acid, myricyl alcohol, and sterol. While the leaves and stems contain tannin, phytosterols, Ca-oxalate, and alkaloids murisine.


It is empirically soursop leaf is widely used to treat rheumatism, stiffness, and pain, arthritis, cancer, diabetes and gout. Simply, soursop leaves boiled with 5 cups of water until remaining 3 cups, according to a researcher can cure back pain. Meanwhile, leaves boiled for half an hour, then the water is drunk to anti-seizure drug. Nutrients in soursop leaves efficacious expedite the process of hormonal metabolism in the body. Moreover, soursop leaves also have a diuretic effect. When consumed regularly, urine secretion will be more smooth. Therefore soursop leaves also widely used to treat symptoms of back pain and difficulty urinating. With a diuretic effect, the secretion of uric acid in the urine can run smoothly for reducing blood uric acid levels.

Gout occurs due to excessive purine substance, kidneys are no longer able to remove it from the body so accumulate in the joints.

Soursop leaves for gout

Actually, the body may contain substances purine and normal, but if it's too much which will lead you suffer from gout. When this disease relapse, the patient will be severely hindered in carrying out daily activities because it is very painful joints. You can impose yourself with all the powers, but nonetheless it will be very uncomfortable.

Soursop leaves boiled water is natural medicine that can help patients cope with gout. Here is how to use:

• Take 10-15 soursop leaves and clean it with fresh water. Make sure there is no dirt on the leaves. You may use a cleanser for vegetables.
• Put the leaves that have been washed earlier in the pan to boil. Pour enough water until the soursop leaves submerged everything. So, put the soursop leaves into the pan from the beginning you boil the water, not when the water is boiling.
• Boil the leaves of the soursop until the water remaining about a half only. When the water has reached this amount, the boiling process should be stopped.
• As long as you have not been drinking the soursop leaves boiled water, leave the cooking water to remain in the pan, no need to separate the water from the leaves.
• Drink the water twice a day, preferably morning and evening.

By drinking soursop leaves regularly does not mean you are free to consume any type of food. The disease, gout, is generally caused due to lifestyle patterns related to food, but also is genetic.

You are more at risk if someone in your family has this disease. Therefore, it is better if you visit professional medic to check your uric acid levels as a form of early treatment.

Purine substances are also found in food, therefore you need to eat carefully. It is suggested you keep reducing food such as nuts, seafood and offal.

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