The invention provides an externally applied gel for treating 
gout, which is an externally applied 
medicine made from 
traditional Chinese medicine components such as nidus vespae, 
colchicine, a 
gel matrix, and the like., and by taking a 
coupling medium as transdermal carrier. The anti-
gout gel can quickly eliminate redness, swelling, pain and 
fever symptoms of 
gouty arthritis, inhibit 
granulocyte infiltration and formation of 
lactic acid, reduce synthesis of 
uric acid, shorten and stop the acute 
attack of the 
gouty arthritis, prevent 
gout complications that threaten life, suspend tissue and 
organ damage caused by deposition of the 
uric acid, thus ensure that the illness of a patient is stabilized and can not deteriorate anymore for a long time. With the 
coupling medium adopted as the transdermal carrier of the 
medicine, the gel is characterized in that: a dermal hydration gradient can be naturally formed in the 
skin permeation course of the 
coupling medium, the gradient is independent of concentration when driving 
osmotic pressure difference, the gel has high deformability, can keep the components thereof unchanged after the 
skin permeation course and can permeate corneum of mammals through a plurality of transformation. The gel also has high transdermal efficiency, and full dermal permeabilities are not different between species and different parts. The gel avoids the deficiencies of injections and oral liquid medicines, is safe owing to the external use, and has no 
toxicity and side effects. The gel has simple components, low cost, requires no special devices and production conditions, and is available for large-scale industrialized production.