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| The Advantage of TCM on Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis |
Rheumatoid arthritis is always called “deathless cancer”, because there was no treatment with special effects. In western medicine, immunosuppressor and hormone are always applied for this disease, while this kind of treatment has good effects for temporary analgesia or for active stage, and long term of application will lead to severe side-effect, which makes the patients unable to insist on treatment.
The modern medicine believes that rheumatoid arthritis is a kind of autoimmune disease caused by multiple factors. Its basic pathological change is arthromeningitis. And from the years of clinical practice, we find the (Traditional Chinese Medicine) TCM therapy for rheumatoid arthritis has better effects on the long term treatment.
The advantages of Chinese Traditional Medicine can be summarized as following:
1, traditional Chinese Medicine treats rheumatoid arthritis according to symptoms, patient’s characteristics, different places, different seasons, and different kind of physique. Chinese Medicine Treatment embodies the characteristics of individualized treatment.
2, the characteristic of Chinese medicine efficacy is warm and lasting, what’s more, it has less side-effects or no side-effects. Therefore, patients’ tolerance is better so that they can persist to receiving long-term treatment.
3, compound traditional Chinese medicine can play a role of integrated adjustment through multi-channels, multi-level and multiple targets, which can treat multiple pathological links in the overall treatment for rheumatism.
4, during the long term treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, it can improve the patient's general condition, enhance physique, delay the progression, prevent and improve bone destruction.
