Vegetarian food helps to relieve joint swelling and pain;

Excessive consumption of animal fat will aggravate the condition;

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The diet of rheumatism patients does have "three disciplines and eight attentions", but the condition can still be improved through medicated diet.

Chinese medicine advocates that patients with this disease should avoid eating carnivorous protein, such as cock, carp, cow, goat's milk, meat, etc., and foods with high fat, animal fat and cholesterol should also be avoided, because they can inhibit the function of T lymphocytes and promote the destruction of joints. Experiments have proved that vegetables can alleviate the symptoms of this disease.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the disease is caused by wind, cold, dampness and evil, so products that can dispel wind and cold, eliminate dampness and warm up are often selected in diet therapy, such as leek, coriander, onion, celery, rape, pepper, coix seed and papaya, and then medicated diet treatment is carried out according to syndrome differentiation and classification. Traditional Chinese medicine divides rheumatoid arthritis into wind arthralgia, cold arthralgia, wet arthralgia and heat arthralgia.

Wind-induced joint pain: it is caused by the common cold, and the wind is good, so the number changes. So it is also called "arthralgia". It is suitable for medicinal diet for expelling wind, dredging collaterals, dispelling cold and removing dampness. For example, 50 grams of acanthopanax bark is mashed and washed, soaked in appropriate amount of water, and decocted. The decoction is taken once every 30 minutes, twice, and then mixed with 500 grams of glutinous rice.

Cold joint pain: because of the cold, locals are afraid of the cold, and they can't get up and down. The cold is dominant, and locals are cramped, so they like heat and fear cold, so they are comfortable when they are warm. This type of pain is mainly pain, which is like acupuncture, so it is also called "arthralgia". It is advisable to warm channels and dispel cold, and it should be accompanied by medicated diet for dispelling wind and promoting diuresis, such as Tiger Bone papaya wine: Dog Bone 3g (fried). 5 g, crystal sugar 100 g, white wine 1000 g, all put into wine, sealed and soaked for 3-4 months, and then taken. Take 1-2 spoons each time, twice a day. This product is used for cold joint pain, tepid hands and feet, tendon contracture, soreness of waist and knees, yin deficiency, damp heat or excessive internal heat.

Dampness arthralgia: due to improper diet, indigestion of spleen and stomach, internal dampness occurs, or people live in wet places, and external dampness caused by rain affects joints, making cramps unable to flex and stretch, making it inconvenient to move. Mainly due to the heavy limbs, also known as "arthralgia syndrome", it is advisable to use dampness-promoting and collateral-dredging drugs, such as pepper soup: 40g pepper, a little salt, and appropriate amount of ginger, and stew it.

Heat arthralgia: acute rheumatic fever, swelling and burning of joints, pain refusing to press, often accompanied by a series of heat syndromes such as fever, aversion to wind, sweating, thirst and short and red urine. It is advisable to clear away heat and dredge collaterals, and it should be accompanied by products that can dispel wind and promote diuresis, such as Coix seed and towel gourd porridge, Coix seed 150g, mint 15g, fermented soybean 50g and towel gourd 65438. After boiling, decoct with slow fire for about 10 minute, take juice to remove residues, pour Coicis Semen and Luffa into the pot, add the medicinal juice, and cook until cooked. Eat on an empty stomach after seasoning. Coicis Semen, Luffa, Mint, Douchi, and clearing away heat and relieving exterior syndrome can relieve the swelling and pain of heat arthralgia.

Brief introduction of the author

Pu Yongbin, master, deputy chief physician, associate professor, the fifth batch of old Chinese medicine experts academic heir. Member of the First Expert Committee of Clinical Immunology Branch of Yunnan Immunology Society, Young Member of the Third Committee of Rheumatology Branch of Yunnan Medical Association, Member of Rheumatology Committee of Yunnan Traditional Chinese Medicine Society, Member of Emergency Committee of Yunnan Traditional Chinese Medicine Society, Member of Basic Committee of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Yunnan Traditional Chinese Medicine Society, Member of Neurology Committee of Yunnan Society of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, and Member of the First Medical Committee of Yunnan Biomedical Research Association. Participated in 2 projects of National Natural Fund. As a member of the editorial board, he participated in writing 4 monographs. Won the first prize of Yunnan Science and Technology Progress 1 and the second prize of Science and Technology 1 issued by the People's Government of Yunnan Province.

He is good at treating rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, osteoarthritis, gout, systemic lupus erythematosus, polymyositis/dermatomyositis, scleroderma, vasculitis and other rheumatism as well as chronic cough and chronic cardiovascular diseases with combination of traditional Chinese and western medicine.