The Korean word for gout is tongpoong. Tong stands for pain and poong means wind. It is said that gout inherited this name because patients experienced pain from vibration caused by even the slightest of breezes. Another theory explaining the origins of the word says that gout was named after this word because the pain induced by gout occurred suddenly and disappeared just as fast. Much like the wind. .......					<Oriental Medicine in everyday life> aching joints might signal that you have 'gout' Gout is a painful disease that causes swelling in the joints and toes. Korean name for gout is 'Tongpoong', which means that patients experience pain from vibration caused by even the slightest of breezes. The cause of this disease can be traced to the factor of excessive urin-acids in the blood due to .......
	The primary cause of gout is through the excessive production of urin-acid within the body due to the lack of purine proteolysis in the spleen. Also, gout can be caused by the failure of the kidneys to adequately filter the urin-acid present within the blood stream. This situation is comparable to when a sewer becomes clogged due to the dirty water passing through it. Thus, .....