Diet is a considerable part of the patient’s concern, there are many kinds of statements about the so-called dietary contraindications, which are relative. Here are the principles of diet: 1. Be nutritious: do not deliberately avoid eating a certain food, be nutritionally balanced. 2, choose food containing less saturated fat and cholesterol: avoid fried food, can consume low-fat and skim milk. 3.Eat more vegetables and fruits. 4.Don’t eat too salty food. 5, drink plenty of water. Dietary contraindications: Rheumatism patients should not take foods that are unfavorable to the disease and stimulating foods. Sugar and fat should also eat less, this is because the treatment of rheumatism often choose glucocorticoids, resulting in impaired glucose metabolism, increased blood sugar, and lipid food more viscous, can make the blood lipid cholesterol elevated, resulting in heart, brain vascular sclerosis, and the spleen and stomach function also have some damage. Modern medicine confirms that a high-fat diet, due to the oxidation process of fat in the body can produce ketone bodies, too much ketone bodies can stimulate the joints, making pain worse; rheumatism patients should also be less salt than normal, because excessive salt intake will cause water and sodium retention, causing edema. The issue of alcohol consumption by patients should also be treated according to their medical condition. Because wine is pungent and hot, it is easy to generate fire and dispel cold, so generally if the patient has cold and dampness, he or she can drink some medicinal wine. Patients with damp-heat symptoms, however, are not suitable for drinking wine because wine heat hurts the liver and wine dampness hurts the spleen. In addition: Since some patients need to take painkillers for a long time, and painkillers are stimulating to the gastrointestinal tract, drinking alcohol can aggravate the gastrointestinal stimulation and the side effects of painkillers. Suggestions: For those who drink alcohol and like wine, prepare some wine suitable for their physique and condition under the guidance of herbalists. Do not take medicinal wine on your own, as it may be counterproductive and aggravate your condition. Patients with wandering joint pain, fever, sore throat, constipation, yellow and red urine, and significantly increased blood sedimentation; low fever, chest tightness, poor nausea, joint swelling and pain with fluid, patients with these symptoms should use more cold diets, such as barley porridge, mung beans, raw pears, bean rolls, chrysanthemum vegetables, rutabaga, etc., which can assist in clearing internal heat; and should not consume warm foods, such as chili, mustard, ginger, cinnamon, and wine, because eating these will aggravate the symptoms. In case of swollen and painful joints or fluid accumulation, poor nasal function, unformed stools, long and clear urine, fear of cold, and increased blood sedimentation, patients should use warm foods such as soup made from pig, cow or sheep bones, and ginger, cinnamon, papaya, and medicinal wine. Longer duration of the disease, joint pain deformity, muscle atrophy, tendon constriction, fear of cold, emaciation, no color, while the blood sedimentation is not more rapid, or close to normal; this type of patients can eat more tonic food, such as snapper meat, chicken, duck, goose, pork, beef, sheep bone marrow, walnut, cinnamon, sesame, etc. Rheumatism taboos are influenced by traditional culture, mostly for: 1. aggravate. 2, is to avoid taking medicine during the mouth, to avoid food affect the efficacy of drugs and unfavorable body recovery. For rheumatism, there should be a correct attitude, do not think that the taboo is not scientific and eat without taboos, and do not be too strict, too much food taboo The best way is that you have eaten a certain food, there is an increase in symptoms, which means that the food may aggravate your condition, avoid eating again next time!