Poor eating habits, such as diets with fatty, greasy sauces, taste in heavy and thick, excessive consumption of alcohol, offal and seafood like shellfish, will cause internal obstruction of dampness heat. Dampness-heat obstruction may also be affected by external dampness heat pathogen, causing problems such as joint soreness, redness, hotness and swelling, blockage of joint meridians and induce obstruction of pain.

Wai Yuen Tong Uricid Aid Capsules is made according to the National Drug Standard and registered as a proprietary Chinese medicine by the Chinese Medicine Council of Hong Kong. It is made with Chinese herbal medicines that can clear heat, drain dampness and detoxify.

The herbal ingredients included in the prescription have the following functions*:
Radix et Rhizoma Rhei: Detoxifies and expels stasis
Semen Plantaginis: Clears heat and drains dampness
Rhizoma Alismatis: Discharges heat and drains dampness
Radix Cyathulae: Facilitates joints
Radix Stephaniae Tetrandrae: Disperses swelling and relieves pain

*Source from the Pharmacopeia of the People's Republic of China