Professor Jin Mingxiu Treatment Of Rheumatoid Arthritis Experience

Rheumatism arthritis is a kind of chronic systematic and immune systerm diseases which primarily gives cause for the joints pathological change. At present,there is still not a clear explanation to the Pathogenesis and it also lacks of the effective method in the treatment in modern medicine. In the traditional Chinese medicine, RA is belong to the category of "rheumatism sickness". Rheumatism sickness is a complex disease .If it is insufficient in the human body's yinyang and qi and blood , that wind cold wet and hot may close the channels and affect the vitality movement. Then they cause the body physique, the joint, the muscle and so on places to bring out ache, heavy, stiff , numb, or hindrance of the joint expands and contracts , tumescent, symptoms and so on . In his 30 years of life , professor Jin mingxiu who is in clinical thetreatment and scientific reasearch of the rheumatic disease, accumulates a great deal of clinical experience, and has its unique opinion especially to this sickness's Chinese medicine treatment aspect, then obtained the good clinical curative effect to the RA treatment. In my teacher's viewpoints, there is the intrinsic factor for deficiency of the liver and kiney and also lack of qi and blood in this disease. The pathological change of organs incuding the kidney,the liver and the spleen is the internal factor. The external factors which include cold and wet attack the human body , then cause and the aggravate the disease, and stagnantion of blood runs through the entire course. The treatment should focuse on both liver and kidney and branch aspects, supporting healthy qi and removing pathogenic factors. So we pay great attention in the treatment to benefit liver and kidney and alive blood know Luo, and commonly use the medicine like shanzhuyu niuxi taoren and honghuost ,and we also use qianghuo duhuo and weilingxian to expelling wind and dispel cold .The condition of RA is complex, the course is long, and it relapses frequently; Therefore teacher selects the grass medicine beside the side effect are few and may be taken for a long time, then achieve the treatment and control the disease.