Traditional Chinese Medicine Teaches You How to Prevent and Treat Rheumatoid Arthritis

Author: Lou Yujin and Li Junde, Editors
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: With rich clinical experience, the author provides a detailed introduction to the basic knowledge, clinical manifestations, examination methods, clinical staging, diagnosis, and differential diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis. It covers the understanding of rheumatoid arthritis from Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), treatment principles, treatment methods, clinical experiences of renowned TCM masters, physical therapy, common folk therapies, and rehabilitation therapy. The book also addresses concerns of rheumatoid arthritis patients, such as whether to receive home-based or hospital-based treatment, daily care precautions, marriage, pregnancy, delivery, heredity and contagion, how to describe symptoms and provide medical history when seeing a doctor, and precautions when consulting a TCM practitioner. It is suitable for both grassroots physicians as a clinical reference and rheumatoid arthritis patients for reading.