Combination of Chinese and Western medicine for rheumatic diseases

  Patients with rheumatic diseases mainly suffer from lesions of bones, joints, muscles and surrounding soft tissues, and rheumatic disease symptoms such as “joint pain, swelling and deformation” are considered by Chinese medicine to belong to the category of “paralysis”. But whether it is modern medicine or traditional Chinese medicine, each has both advantages and defects, clinical efficacy is difficult to be satisfactory, take the combination of Chinese and Western medicine treatment of rheumatism, there are complementary strengths, complementary advantages, complement each other, complementary effect.  Western medicine treatment is mainly anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs, immunosuppressants and hormones, etc. The purpose is to relieve joint swelling and pain, anti-inflammatory, and regulate immunity, so as to reduce the inflammatory response and control the progress of the disease. In addition, Chinese herbal medicine treatment can effectively activate blood circulation, relieve joint swelling and pain, help patients to quickly relieve the disease, reduce the side effects of drugs, and alleviate patients’ pain.