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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic systemic autoimmune disorder with pain, inflammation and restriction of movements of the limbs due to tissue damage, which is a uniform disease all over the world, with a prevalence of approximately 1% and an incidence of 0.03%.
RA is a disease of unknown cause, disputed origin, and variable clinical presentations. Its prevalence and incidence vary from one population to another and from time to time. In individual patients, it takes a variable course with remissions and exacerbations, and has a variable outcome, from a remitting disease leaving no damage to a severe disease bringing disability and even death.
TCM has a very long history in RA treatment, which with multiple pathways, multiple target points, multi-level comprehensive effect, can be applied to a number of pathological links of RA
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