Chinese medicine treatment and classification of rheumatism and rheumatoid rheumatism

  Paralysis is one of the common conditions in Chinese internal medicine, and is a group of systemic pathologies with joint pain as the main symptom. Its clinical manifestations are equivalent to rheumatic and rheumatoid arthritis in modern medicine. According to Chinese medicine, the main cause and mechanism of the disease is the invasion of wind, cold and dampness into the human body, staying in the joints, blocking the meridians, resulting in the stagnation of qi and blood, the meridians do not pass, not pass is pain.  Rheumatic arthritis has a rapid onset, invades large joints and has recurrent attacks. It is mostly associated with upper respiratory tract streptococcal infections, and the age of onset is mostly adolescents, with positive serum anti-streptococcal hemolysin “o”, anti-streptococcal kinase and anti-hyaluronidase. The disease is characterized by multiple, wandering, large joints with red, swollen and hot pain. After the active period, no pathological damage remains in the affected joints, and if treatment is not appropriate, the heart can be involved, causing rheumatic heart disease.  Rheumatoid arthritis, slow onset, first invade small joints or spine, can cause joint deformation, bone damage, rheumatoid factor positive. The disease is prolonged and recurrent. It may be accompanied by wasting, anemia and other chronic wasting symptoms. At the later stage, the joints are deformed and stiff, and the body is depleted and cannot take care of itself.  In Chinese medicine, the cause of the disease is liver and kidney deficiency, and the disease wanders between the tendons and bones, similar to the gout and rheumatism in Western medicine.        The symptoms are divided into three types: 1, wind paralysis, the symptoms are numbness and pain: wind and dampness are united, pain in the bones and joints, the pain can not be flexed and stretched, close to the pain, sweating and short breath, urine is not conducive, bad wind does not want to go to the clothes, or the body is slightly swollen, licorice and aconite soup is the main.  2, blood paralysis, symptoms are numbness but not pain: blood paralysis, Yin and Yang are both micro, inch mouth on the micro, ulnar small and medium tight, external evidence of the body is not benevolent, such as wind paralysis, Huang Qi Gui Zhi Wu Yi Tang is the main.  3. Calendar joints, symptoms are but pain but not numbness: pain in all limbs and joints, body inibs, feet swollen as off, dizziness and shortness of breath, warmth and desire to vomit, Gui Zhi Shao Yao Zhi Mu Tang is used. For knee pain.  Sickness of all the joints, not able to flex and extend, painful, Wu Tang is the mainstay. Toxic, strictly made for use in accordance with the requirements, should not be used by patients with heart disease.