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| Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis with Traditional Chinese Medicine |
| Hits 1515 Download times 1773 Received:April 15, 2004 |
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| DOI
10.11656/j.issn.1672-1519.2004.04.17 |
| Key Words
rheumatoid arthritis;treatment with TCM;arthromyodynia |
| Author Name | Affiliation | | YANG Yu-lan | The Second Affiliated Hospital to Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin300150, China | | GAO Chang-bai | The Second Affiliated Hospital to Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin300150, China |
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| Abstract
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| Rheumatoid arthritis(RA)is a chronic systemic autoimmune disease.It pertains to arthromyodynia.TCM considered that exogenous pathologic factors such as wind,cold,dampness and heat is its external cause,and the deficiency of qi and blood is the causative factor.Thus it is advisable to emphasize the endogenous factors and support healthy qi as well;regulate both yin and yang according to different features of cold and heat;give attention to both the local and whole;use drugs to tonify the kidney and stomach-qi as soon as early.Rheumatoid arthritis is complicated in pathological changes and not one method can achieve curative effect as we expect.So we should use compound therapeutic methods and prescriptions,giving drugs in different roads and levels. |
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