What is the best medicine for rheumatoid arthritis?

Patients with rheumatoid disease suffer from the pain brought by the disease. When the disease occurs, all joints in the body may ache. It is also possible that the pain in one joint subsides and symptoms in another joint will follow. Some middle-aged and elderly people are the main group suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis can cause bone deformation and pain, which is very painful for patients. What is the best medicine for rheumatoid arthritis?

You must understand and pay attention to the question of what medicine to take for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. The answer to your question about what medicine to take for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis is as follows: If rheumatism is diagnosed, there is currently no specific medicine that works quickly. The treatment can be based on the patient's symptoms and disease characteristics, and can be tailored to the location, time and person, supplemented by acupuncture.

1. What is the best medicine for rheumatoid arthritis?

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "medicine and food have the same origin." Food also has properties and flavors, and some foods are also medicines. If used properly, they can prevent and cure diseases. The method of using food to prevent and treat diseases is called food therapy, also known as diet therapy, medicated diet therapy, or "diet therapy" for short. The New Book on Longevity and Elderly Care said: "If people can understand the nature of their food and use it accordingly, it will be twice as good as taking medicine"; "Those who are good at taking medicine are not as good as those who are good at knowing food." Wang Mengying of the Qing Dynasty said: "Dietary medicine is extremely simple, the most mild, does not taste bad, and is easy to make and take." The specific operation methods are as follows:.

1. Dialectical diet: Dialectical diagnosis and treatment is also the basic principle of diet therapy. "Replenish the deficiency and drain the excess", "treat the cold with eagerness, and cool the eager with cold", "clear the warm and warm the cool", etc. are the great methods of treatment. When preparing meals, different dietary recipes should be given according to the yin and yang, deficiency and excess, cold and heat of the "syndrome". Generally speaking, people with wind arthritis should use pungent and warm dispersing foods such as onions and ginger; people with cold arthritis should use warm foods such as pepper and dried ginger, but avoid eating raw and cold foods; people with damp arthritis should use medicines such as Poria cocos and Job's tears; people with heat arthritis are generally suffering from a mixture of dampness and heat, so they should use medicinal foods such as soybean sprouts, mung bean sprouts, loofah, and winter melon, but avoid eating mutton and spicy and irritating foods.

2. Reasonable cooking: For dietary therapeutic items, generally do not use frying, baking, stir-frying and other cooking methods, so as to avoid destroying their effective ingredients or changing their properties and losing their therapeutic effects. Steaming, boiling, stewing, and making soup should be adopted. The purpose of cooking is to make it delicious and tasty while keeping its medicinal properties.

Dietary adjustment is very important for patients with rheumatoid arthritis. First of all, patients with rheumatoid arthritis should choose high-protein, high-vitamin and easily digestible foods. Through reasonable nutritional matching and proper cooking, they should try their best to improve the patient's appetite so that the nutrition and energy in the patient's diet can meet the body's needs.

Secondly, patients with rheumatoid arthritis should not take foods that are detrimental to their condition and highly irritating foods, such as chili peppers, especially patients in the acute stage of rheumatoid arthritis and patients with yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire. Sugar and fat should also be used less. This is because glucocorticoids are often used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, which can lead to impaired sugar metabolism and increased blood sugar. Lipid foods are sticky and can increase blood cholesterol, causing hardening of the blood vessels in the heart and brain, and can also cause certain damage to the spleen and stomach functions. Patients with rheumatoid arthritis should also consume less salt than normal people, because excessive salt intake will cause sodium retention. In addition, tea, coffee, citrus fruits, and dairy products may also aggravate the symptoms of rheumatoid patients.

2. Different types of rheumatoid arthritis patients have different dietary preferences, which are described as follows:

(1) Wind-heat type and damp-heat type: The main symptoms of wind-heat type are migratory joint pain, fever, sore throat, constipation, dark urine, thick tongue coating, red tongue, rapid or stringy pulse, and significantly increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate. Patients with damp-heat type may experience low fever, chest tightness, poor appetite, swollen and painful joints with effusion, red tongue, greasy white tongue coating, slippery and rapid pulse, and increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate. Patients with these symptoms should choose more cold foods, such as millet porridge, beans, raw pears, bean rolls, chrysanthemum, reed root, etc., which can help clear internal heat; they should not eat warm foods, such as peppers, mustard, ginger, cinnamon, wine, etc., because eating these will damage yin and help fire, aggravating symptoms.

(2) Cold-damp type: The main symptoms are swollen and painful joints or effusion, poor appetite, loose stools, clear and long urine, fear of cold, weight loss, dull complexion, pale tongue with greasy white coating, weak pulse, and increased blood sedimentation rate. Patients of this type should choose some warm foods, such as soup made from pork, beef, and sheep bones, as well as ginger, cinnamon, papaya, and medicinal wine.

(3) Liver and kidney deficiency type: Patients with this type may experience joint pain and deformity, muscle atrophy, tendon cramps, chills, weight loss, dull complexion, pale or greasy tongue, deep and thin pulse, and the erythrocyte sedimentation rate is usually not increased or is close to normal. Patients of this type can eat more nourishing foods, such as turtle meat, chicken, duck meat, goose meat, pork, beef, sheep bone marrow, walnuts, longan, sesame, etc.

In addition, the issue of drinking by patients with rheumatoid arthritis is also treated dialectically based on the condition of the disease.

What foods can relieve rheumatoid arthritis symptoms?

1) Foods such as bitter melon, bitter herbs, purslane, and loofah have the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, and can relieve local fever and pain.

2) Foods such as coix seed, tofu, celery, yam, lentil, etc. have the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, and can relieve local fever and pain.

3) Snakes, insects and other foods that can promote blood circulation, unblock meridians, dispel wind and relieve pain can be used in cooking or soaked in wine and drunk. They can relieve local symptoms of redness, swelling, heat and pain, and can also prevent the disease from spreading to other joints. Therefore, they are foods with stronger effects.

4) Stew a newly crowed rooster with 150 grams of ginger (cut into slices) in a pot without adding oil or salt, but a small amount of white wine. Eat it within 1 day. Take it once every other week. Young rooster has the effect of nourishing the kidney, warming the stomach and removing cold, and can relieve local pain and joint and muscle weakness.

5) Take 0.5 kg of young eel, dry it in the shade, soak it in 1 kg of white wine, and it can be consumed after 1 month. Drink 50 ml each time, twice a day. The boy eel is warm in nature and good at running. It has the functions of relaxing muscles and tendons, dispelling wind and dampness. It can relieve local redness, swelling, heat and pain, prevent the lesions from spreading to other joints, and is effective for shoulder and elbow joint movement disorders.

6) A variety of green vegetables and fruits can meet the human body's needs for vitamins, trace elements and cellulose. At the same time, they have the function of improving metabolism, can play a role in clearing away heat and detoxifying, reducing swelling and relieving pain, thereby alleviating local symptoms of redness, swelling, heat and pain.

7) Foods such as shiitake mushrooms and black fungus can enhance human immunity and relieve local symptoms such as redness, swelling, heat and pain.

8) Cook 200 grams of lean pork and 150 grams of chili root into soup, season and drink it twice a day. It can relieve severe pain symptoms.

In short, many foods can help relieve the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis patients, but we must choose the right food for the condition, otherwise it will affect the effect.

What foods may worsen symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis?

(1) High-fat foods: During the oxidation process of fat in the body, ketone bodies can be produced. Excessive ketone bodies have a strong stimulating effect on joints. Patients should not eat too much high-fat food, such as milk, fatty meat, etc., and should also use less oil when cooking or making soup.

(2) Seafood: Patients should not eat too much seafood, such as kelp, sea cucumber, marine fish, shrimp, etc., because they contain uric acid, which, after being absorbed by the body, can form urate crystals in the joints, aggravating joint symptoms.

(3) Too acidic or too salty: Excessive intake of acidic foods such as peanuts, white wine, white sugar, chicken, duck, fish, meat, eggs, etc., which exceeds the normal pH value in the body, will cause the pH value in the body to be transiently high, increase lactic acid secretion, and consume a certain amount of calcium, magnesium and other ions in the body, thereby aggravating the symptoms. Similarly, if you eat too much salty food such as pickles, salted eggs, salted fish, etc., it will increase the sodium ions in the body and aggravate the patient's symptoms.