Rheumatism is the collective name of a class of diseases with pain in bones, joints and muscles as the main clinical manifestation, it includes more than 200 specific diseases in ten categories, and the treatment and prognosis of each rheumatic disease is different. Rheumatism is very rich, has become an independent discipline in the field of medicine, has been widely valued, the United States 20 years ago established a rheumatology medical school, Western Europe and the former Soviet Union also set up a special research and prevention institutions, many general hospitals in China set up a rheumatology specialist, and even set up a rheumatology hospital, for the convenience of rheumatology patients. Many patients individual doctors believe that rheumatism is rheumatoid arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, after the disease is not clear which rheumatism, the injection of penicillin and other antibiotics, taking aspirin, anti-inflammatory pain, ibuprofen and other anti-rheumatic drugs, the results are not effective, delayed the disease, side effects. In addition, the abuse of hormones (prednisone, dexamethasone, etc.) in the treatment of rheumatic diseases is quite serious. There are strict indications for hormone treatment of rheumatism. Generally speaking, only less than 5% of rheumatism patients are in need of hormone treatment, but we found that 75% to 85% of patients had used or were using hormones during outpatient consultations. Hormones have a very significant anti-inflammatory and analgesic effect, but they cannot cure rheumatism, and their prolonged use can have serious side effects, which are sometimes more serious or even fatal than the primary disease itself. Chinese medicine has a long history of evidence-based treatment of rheumatism, and has accumulated and rich experience, but it is not scientifically justified to rule all rheumatism with one or two kinds of medicine without evidence-based treatment. Some people say that rheumatism is “No. 2 cancer” and cannot be cured, and some people can cure it, which are not scientific. It should be said that different rheumatic diseases have different prognosis: some rheumatic diseases do not cure themselves, such as long-term joint pain; some are eliminated by active protection, such as rheumatic cold arthritis; some are easier to cure, such as rheumatoid arthritis; some require multiple efforts to cure, such as early rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis; some will eventually leave disability, such as malignant rheumatoid disease, part of the mixed connective] disease and dry syndrome; some will remain disabled, such as malignant rheumatoid disease, part of the connective] disease and dry syndrome; some can not be cured according to the current medical level, such as hereditary bone disease. The prognosis of most of the 200 kinds of rheumatic diseases is good, only a few are difficult to treat. Even some difficult to treat rheumatic diseases as long as early diagnosis, early and correct treatment, especially the application of Chinese medicine to identify the symptoms of treatment, many prognosis is relatively good. In a word, don’t be nervous when suffering from rheumatism, don’t seek medical advice indiscriminately, find a regular rheumatologist in time to diagnose which rheumatism you are suffering from, and then choose the right medicine and method for your condition, which can achieve the ideal effect of treatment.