Rheumatism in clinical terms mainly refers to rheumatic diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, gout, etc., all of which can cause joint pain, swelling, and even deformity and other manifestations. Folklore methods of treating rheumatism include hot baths and ginger hot compresses. The main purpose is to maintain a dry and warm external environment for the affected joints to achieve the effect of relieving pain symptoms. In addition, drinking barley porridge for rheumatism patients also has certain benefits: 1, hot bath: hot sand bath, hot salt bath and hot peat bath is sand or coarse salt, peat, after sun exposure or artificial heating, the joints suffering from rheumatism will be buried in. By heating the affected rheumatic joints to keep them warm in order to relieve pain; 2, ginger hot compress: ginger chopped and boiled hot to apply to rheumatic joints. Ginger juice contains pungent ingredients, and easy to volatilize, applied to the affected area can penetrate into the skin, so that the joints coated with ginger feel warm, burning, so that rheumatism patients feel pain relief; 3, barley porridge: barley contains coixin, β-sitosterol and other anti-inflammatory, analgesic effect, rheumatism patients have certain benefits. But the content of such substances in barley is very limited, and can not play a therapeutic effect. In addition, drinking hot milk and royal jelly also has some positive significance for the relief of rheumatism symptoms. It should be noted that the native methods have limitations and can only relieve some of the symptoms of rheumatism or hidden symptoms, suffering from rheumatism should still go to the hospital for systematic professional treatment, should not be overly superstitious native methods, so as not to delay the disease and cause adverse consequences.