Rheumatic arthritis is a repeated attacking acute or chronic systemic allergic connective tissue disease, which mainly attacks the joints, especially the big ones. The chief clinical symptoms are red-swelling and febrile pain of the systemic or partial joints, and motor disturbance. It is included in "arthralgia-syndrome" in TCM. It is mainly caused by the pathogenic factors retain on the meridians, the muscles and joints are blocked by qi and blood which due to the defensive qi fails to consolidate the skin, and the body fails to expel the invading wind, cold, dampness or heat pathogens in time. For treatment, expelling pathogenic wind and cold by warming the meridian, or clearing away the pathogenic heat and dredging the meridian, expelling the pathogenic dampness and alleviating pain are mainly used.
Diffuse connective tissue (DCTD)
Spondyloarthropathy
Degenerative arthritis
Arthritis due to infection
Arthritis related to tumors
Arthritis related to metabolic and endocrine diseases
Arthritis due to neurodegenerative disease