If joint stiffness is caused by rheumatoid arthritis, joint stiffness will occur in the small joints of the limbs, such as hand joints, finger palm joints, wrist joints and so on, and symmetrically in the left and right hands, then you should choose to take oral anti-feng soup, barley soup or Sanmiao pill, body pain and stasis soup and other allopathic Chinese medicines according to the symptoms; external use of rheumatism cream, far-infrared magnetic therapy paste, etc. with acupuncture treatment, manual massage treatment, physical therapy, most patients can significantly improve the symptoms, 2. If the joint stiffness is caused by synovitis, most of them occur in large joints, such as the knee joint, shoulder joint, hip joint and so on. In this case, you should choose to take oral Chinese medicine such as remitting palsy soup, wu tou soup, peach and red four-item soup according to the symptoms of the disease; and use Wan Ying cream externally and apply it together with joint function exercises.