I went to bed fine and woke up with rib pain (lower right) and I have been suffering for days. Can too much uric acid give rib pain? My serum uric acid used to be fine. But lately I had too much liver (chicken, calf, duck), marrow bone soup and dairy products. In general, I hardly eat this stuff. I blame my rib pain on imbalanced food energetics, soft tissue inflammation etc. but today I thought of uric acid. I also had minor sore throat, swollen/bleeding gum around cracked teeth... very briefly. Too much hot/warm food??? Mum/mulberry tea, bitter melon and barley soup don't seem enough to cool me down. What cooling foods would you suggest? Thank you.