Symptoms Rheumatoid arthritis is a manifestation of rheumatic fever. Rheumatic fever is a systemic metabolic disease caused by group A, type B, hemolytic streptococcal infection, which often starts with a history of infection such as dengue. The onset of rheumatic fever is rapid, and it is most often seen in adolescents. Rheumatoid arthritis can invade the heart and cause rheumatic heart disease with fever, subcutaneous nodules and rash. Rheumatoid arthritis has two characteristics: First, the joints are red, swollen, hot and painful, and cannot be moved, the onset is often in the large joints of the lower extremities such as the knee, hip and ankle, followed by the shoulder, elbow and wrist joints. Second, the pain is wandering, a period of time is this joint attack, a period of time is that joint discomfort, but the pain does not last long, a few days can subside. The blood sedimentation is accelerated, the anti-“0” titer is increased, and the rheumatoid factor is negative. Cured rarely relapses, the joints do not remain deformed, some patients may be left with cardiac lesions. 1, joint pain. 2, morning stiffness patients in the morning or after a long rest, the joints are glued stiffness, activity can be relieved or disappear. Morning stiffness is most prominent in rheumatoid arthritis and can last for several hours, while in other arthritis it lasts for a shorter period of time. 3, joint swelling and pressure pain often appear in the joint with pain, is a sign of synovitis or peripheral soft tissue inflammation, the degree of which varies depending on the severity of the inflammation. It can be caused by fluid accumulation in the joint cavity or synovial hypertrophy. Osteophytic hypertrophy is mostly seen in osteoarthritis. Joint deformity and dysfunction refers to the loss of normal joint shape and restricted range of motion, such as inability to fully straighten the knee, ulnar deviation of the metacarpophalangeal joint of the hand, and joint subluxation. These changes are associated with damage to cartilage and bone. It is common in rheumatoid arthritis. I. Treatment Rheumatic disease is a disease with diverse etiology and complex pathology. Clinically, it is difficult to achieve satisfactory results with a single treatment method. Should be mixed to treat, in the selection of treatment methods should master the combination of symptoms, prevention and treatment, medical treatment and self-medication combined with other principles. The treatment should be infiltrated into all aspects of prevention and care. Chinese medicine believes that: medical food has the same origin, food also has a sexual taste, some food is also medicine, used properly, can prevent and cure diseases, Qing Wang Mengying said: “food therapy medicine is extremely simple, the most peaceful nature, taste is not bad, easy to do and easy to serve.” Comprehensive treatment is the key to the treatment of rheumatism The following is the introduction of various treatments Second, drug therapy The principle of treatment is early diagnosis and early and reasonable, joint drug use. Commonly used anti-rheumatic drugs are as follows: 1, non-Zithromax anti-inflammatory drugs such drugs can inhibit the synthesis of prostaglandins and rapidly produce anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects, have a better effect on the relief of pain, but can not change the course of the disease. 2, slow-acting anti-rheumatic drugs such drugs are mostly used in rheumatoid arthritis and seronegative spondyloarthropathy. The disease has a certain control role but the effect is slow. Commonly used are gold combination (intramuscular or oral), penicillamine, sulfadiazine pyridine, chloroquine, etc. 3, cytotoxic drugs such drugs through different channels to produce immunosuppressive effects. Commonly used ones are cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and leucovorin, etc. They are often the second-line drugs for SLE, rheumatoid arthritis and vasculitis. Although the side effects are more frequent and serious, they have a great effect on improving the healing of these diseases. 4. Adrenocorticosteroids These drugs are strong anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic drugs, which obviously improve the healing of connective tissue diseases such as SLE, but cannot cure these diseases. Their numerous side effects increase with the increase of dose and the prolongation of the treatment course, so they should be carefully chosen when applied to measure their efficacy and side effects. Third, surgical treatment includes different orthopedic surgery, artificial joint replacement, synovectomy and so on. Surgery cannot cure the disease but can only improve the function of the joint and the ability to live. In view of the current rheumatoid arthritis, traditional medical treatment is only to relieve pain without a cure, so since the 1980s, the world’s developed countries prevailed in the use of pure natural sawtooth shark (great blue shark) cartilage powder for the treatment of various arthritis, and achieved clinical efficacy verification. Now, in some European countries, shark cartilage extract has been recognized as a medicine, and in Japan, companies have been selected to provide it exclusively for clinical use. In addition to the effectiveness of pure natural shark cartilage powder in inhibiting, improving and even completely controlling rheumatoid arthritis, what is even more valuable is that it has no side effects and no drug dependence, and there have been a large number of cases of complete control of the disease within one year of use. Now, it has been used in developed countries as an alternative to medical treatment, the implementation of prospective research, and is widely promoted in the clinical, for mankind to completely defeat rheumatoid arthritis brings a new hope. V. Other treatments including physical, rehabilitation, vocational training, psychological and other treatments are indispensable parts of the comprehensive treatment of this type of disease.