I have been wanting to write another article on Chinese medicine for rheumatoid arthritis because I need to quiet my mind and have time off from illness, and today I received a call from a young male patient with rheumatoid arthritis that finally made me sit down and finish the idea. When he was first diagnosed, like almost all RA patients, he was shocked and did not believe that fate was so cruel; then he wanted to beat the disease to death with a stick, and it did not matter how much money he spent; then he started a mad search for medical help, the best drugs, the latest therapies, starting with immunosuppressants + 3 hormone tablets, moving to biologics, and then the latest stem cell Finally, 8 tablets of hormone could not control the disease, and there was nothing else to do but to think of Chinese medicine. RA used to be called “undead cancer”, showing its difficulty. In the last decade, with the development of science and technology, the number of drugs for the treatment of RA has gradually increased, from the initial immunosuppressants and hormones to biologics and now “stem cells”. Biological agents have entered the medical insurance in developed countries, but in China they are self-paying and expensive, and the specific time of use is not clearly defined. Almost all patients want to know when they will be cured. There are 2 concepts of cure, one is clinical cure; the other is permanent cure, and patients generally want the latter. Many advertisements confuse these 2 concepts, there is no way to cure RA forever, if there was, in my words, “the Nobel Prize in Medicine would be given to him this year. Since there is no cure, how to treat it, in fact, the simplest way is to live in peace with it, but always press it. Western medicine’s immunosuppressants from the perspective of Chinese medicine belongs to the forced suppression (even with the current biological agents, still need to belong to the immunosuppressants to combine treatment), one does not work with two, and then not with three, one of my patients finally used five kinds of drugs (4 kinds of immunosuppressants + hormones) still can not control, how to do? Still to the TCM doctor, “the dead horse is a living horse”. The result of forcible suppression is that you cannot let go, just like you press a ball into the water, the deeper you press the more force you use, the more pressure you let go, the bigger its rebound, as many RA patients know, each recurrence will be much heavier than the previous symptoms, all need more drugs to suppress. But you can’t kill RA, so the best way is to “live in peace”, but always be stronger than it. How can you be stronger than it? It is through the Chinese medicine method of supporting the righteousness and driving away the evil, replenishing their own deficiencies and driving away the disease and evil in their own bodies, Chinese medicine is part of the ancient Chinese philosophy of “victory without fighting is the best victory”, “killing 10,000 enemies at the expense of 3,000”. When you are strong, the evil will naturally be weak, and at the same time in the treatment to give the evil to the way out, can not “close the door to stay invaders”. The same applies to the treatment of other rheumatic immune diseases, such as ankylosis, lupus, dryness, etc.