目前痛风患者人数日益增多， 急性发作时痛苦难忍， 就医时往往给予西医药物治疗，而且目前西医仍缺乏根治疗法。 痛风急性期西药治疗主要为秋水仙碱、 非甾体类药物、 糖皮质激素，近期疗效尚可， 但不良反应较大。 急性痛风性关节炎在中医学中属于痹证范畴， 近年来中医药治疗急性痛风有很多优势， 在有效减轻患者病痛的基础上， 可达到远期治疗效果， 并且不良反应少， 价格低廉。 中医药治疗主要包括复方中药（包括内服、 外敷） 和单味中药。

Currently the number of patients with gout is increasing. Patients will suffer with severe pain when acute attack of gout. Doctors often tent to give Western medicine treatment， which is a treatment that lacks radical therapy. The Western medicine treatment for acute phase of gout mainly includes colchicine， nonsteroidal drugs and corticosteroids. These drugs have good short-term efficacy but there are major adverse reaction. In traditional Chinese medicine， acute gout arthritis belongs to the arthromyodynia. In recent years， much attention has been paid to traditional Chinese medicine treatment for acute gout. On the basis of effectively reducing pain in patients， it can achieve a long-time therapeutic effect， and with less adverse reaction and low price. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment for acute gout mainly includes compound traditional Chinese medicine （including internal and external treatment）and single Chinese medicine.