Rheumatoid arthritis can lead to joint dysfunction and even disability, and its lesions can involve all organs of the body. The “taboo” refers to the patient’s dietary taboos when he or she is ill, and is one of the characteristics of Chinese medicine, which has accumulated a wealth of experience in this area. In the process of treating the disease, a reasonable taboo can often achieve twice the result with half the effort. On the contrary, not only affect the effectiveness of treatment, but also can trigger or aggravate the disease, and even life-threatening. As the saying goes: “treatment of disease without taboo, bad doctor’s hand. A, the treatment of rheumatism to do a reasonable taboo, need to pay attention to the “four taboos”. Chinese medicine believes that “medicine and food have the same origin”, food with drugs, there are cold, hot, warm, cool four gas (sex), and sour, bitter, sweet, pungent, salty five flavors. Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, and advocates that “the hot one is cold, the cold one is hot, the deficient one is tonic, and the real one is diarrhea”. The disease symptoms are changing with the change of the struggle between evil and positive, the same rheumatoid arthritis, in different stages, the performance of the symptoms are different. The symptoms are different, the taboos are also different. The evidence of cold, avoid cold food, such as duck, pork, asparagus, lotus root, watermelon, pear, mung beans, etc.; evidence of hot, avoid hot food, such as mutton, dog, shrimp, eel, onion, ginger, garlic, chili pepper, orange, litchi, etc.; plain spleen and kidney Yang deficiency prone to diarrhea, should avoid cold, greasy and indigestible food, cold and fruit pears should be eaten less; lung and stomach Yin deficiency dry mouth and red tongue, avoid hot and spicy Fragrant dry food such as chili, onion, dog meat, pepper, ginseng, astragalus, etc.. If the tongue is sticky, internal dampness, should not eat greasy and thick food, such as turtle, foot claws, feet and bladders, etc., to light is appropriate. Sweet and greasy food will aggravate the dampness in the body, thus aggravating the condition. Patients with edema or high blood pressure should control the intake of water and salt appropriately. Long-term patients taking hormones should not consume too much sugar. Violation of these principles is like adding oil to the fire and aggravating the disease. So the clinic should closely observe the changes in the evidence, and then switch the food taboos. 2, because of the medicine taboo Chinese medicine in the process of formulating and using drugs, there are “eighteen anti”, “nineteen fear” with taboo. In the process of healing, the Chinese medicine taken and the food eaten also have contraindications. Such as eating ginseng, astragalus, shouwu, rehmannia and other tonic can not drink tea (tea contains a lot of tannic acid, will be combined with the saponin, alkaloids contained in the tonic, resulting in precipitates can not be absorbed by the body, thus reducing the tonic effect); eat sea cucumber, mutton, fish, shrimp and other tonic, can not eat fruits containing more tannic acid, such as persimmons, grapes, pomegranates, hawthorn (will reduce the nutritional value of protein, easy The formation of a substance called tannic acid protein, not easy to digest. In addition, the combination of calcium in the tonic and tannic acid in the fruit will stimulate the stomach and intestines, resulting in abdominal pain and diarrhea, vomiting symptoms, and also produce allergic reactions, causing urticaria); after taking Chinese herbal soup containing thorns should be avoided fish, crab; taking soup with Atractylodes should be avoided peaches, plums, garlic; taking soup with Tu Fu Ling, Wei Ling Xian avoid honey, etc. If the combination is not appropriate, it will reduce or lose the therapeutic effect, and even increase the toxic reaction of Chinese medicine. In addition, there is a record of taking ginseng avoid radish, whether there is any reason, need to do further research to draw a conclusion. 3, depending on the person’s body type and eating habits, the taboos are different. Generally speaking, “fat people are more wet, thin people are more fire”, obese body avoid eating fat and sugar, salt products; thin body avoid hot and spicy dry food, wet people avoid greasy food, etc.. Some people are averse to eating onions, garlic, or averse to eating thorns, taro, mutton, food is nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, rash, and even shock. This is mostly related to individual eating habits, religious beliefs, or allergies to certain foods. 4, according to the time and place taboo According to the theory of “unity of heaven and man”, the human body and nature are closely linked, the evidence of taboo also according to the time and place and appropriate. For example, in the spring, or living in the east of China’s coastal people, avoid eating cold and wet products; summer, more humidity, or living in the south of China, avoid eating hot and spicy fried products; autumn, more dry, living in the northwest of China, avoid eating products that damage Jin dry; winter, more cold, living in the northwest of China, avoid eating cold and cold products. Of course, rotten and unclean food, raw meat, wild mushrooms, unripe fruit is also in the list of taboos. Second, in addition to follow the “four taboos”, but also to avoid falling into the following taboo misconceptions. 1, too harsh: reasonable nutrition and diet is the growth and development of the body, repair tissue damage, produce body resistance, maintain the material basis of normal physiological function, is the source of energy for all human life activities, but also the necessary conditions for patients to recover. Most rheumatic diseases are chronic wasting diseases, precisely what needs to be given to supplement, especially protein intake, only need to be avoided due to evidence, drugs, etc. Many patients have heard that this disease is related to allergic reactions, and therefore associated with whether food allergies will cause the onset or accelerate the development of the disease. As a result, they are afraid to eat cold drinks in summer, and usually they are afraid to touch fish, shrimp, tofu, etc. As a result, the patient’s recipes are monotonous and nutritionally incomplete, which is obviously not good for the improvement and recovery of the disease. Therefore, if too harsh, very bad for health. 2, too blind: taboo is, after all, a small number of food, not universal and absolute, in the process of medication, as long as you pay attention to, you can prevent the occurrence of medicine and food taboos. Folk believe that “hair” will cause disease recurrence or aggravation, no matter what disease can not eat “hair”, which makes the taboo is too blind, is not scientific reason. The so-called “hairy things”, mostly refers to scaleless fish and shrimp, crab, sea cucumber, mutton, beef, toon, leek and some other high egg and high nutrition food. Nutritionists believe that these “hair” can stimulate the body to stimulate the response, so that the body’s immunity is awakened, and promote the recovery and improvement of physiological functions. For example, loach contains protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, multivitamins, etc. It is a good product to improve immunity and protect the liver, and rheumatism patients should eat more of it. Therefore, our view is that, in addition to the above-mentioned, what foods have been eaten in the past that have significantly induced the onset of arthritis, should be avoided not to eat these foods. In addition, other foods can be eaten, to eat a variety, balanced, in order to ensure a comprehensive and reasonable nutrition. Third, can aggravate the symptoms of rheumatism food 1, high-fat class: fat in the body during the oxidation process, can produce ketone bodies, and too much ketone bodies, the joints have a strong stimulating effect, rheumatism patients should not eat more high-fat food, such as milk, fatty meat, etc., stir-fry, soup should also be less oil. 2, seafood: patients should not eat more scaly fish and seafood, such as catfish, loach, eels, kelp, sea cucumber, sea fish, sea shrimp, etc., because it contains uric acid, absorbed by the body, can form uric acid crystals in the joints, making joint symptoms aggravated. 3, too acid, too salty class: such as peanuts, white wine, white sugar and chicken, duck, fish, meat, eggs and other acidic food intake, more than the normal pH value in the body, the body will make the pH value of a transient high, so that lactic acid secretion increased, and consume a certain amount of calcium, magnesium plasma, and aggravate the symptoms. Similarly, if you eat too salty food such as salted vegetables, salted eggs, salted fish, etc., it will increase the sodium ions in your body and aggravate the symptoms of the patient. In addition, the question of whether to avoid taking Chinese medicine must also make a specific analysis, or listen to the doctor’s guidance. Generally speaking, when rheumatism patients take Chinese medicine, there is no special taboo. The taboo is more important for patients to avoid raw, cold, sticky and indigestible food to facilitate the absorption of drugs. In short, in the process of rheumatism treatment, it is necessary to achieve scientific and reasonable taboos. Consider both the etiology of the disease, evidence, medication factors, but also according to the person, time and place, so that the organic combination. On the basis of not violating the above principles, avoid falling into the misunderstanding of too harsh and blind taboos, encourage patients to diversify their diet and eat whatever they like. The patient’s condition can be controlled and the organism can recover as soon as possible.