Rheumatoid Arthritis Diet Dos and Don'ts List

Rheumatoid Arthritis Diet Dos and Don'ts List

A series of articles on hair and rheumatic immune diseases (2)

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, inflammatory synovitis-based autoimmune disease of unknown etiology

Rheumatoid arthritis belongs to the category of "arthritis syndrome" in traditional Chinese medicine

The classic Chinese medicine "Su Wen·Bi Lun" states that "wind, cold, and dampness are mixed together, and they are combined to form Bi.

Later physicians made supplements based on clinical observations, and believed that "heat" evil could also cause paralysis

Zhang Zhongjing recorded in "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" that Baihu Jiagui Decoction treats Baihu Lijiefeng, which belongs to the heat paralysis;

Wu Jutong described the characteristics of Heat Bi in "Tiaobian of Warm Diseases" as "dampness gathers heat and steams, accumulates in the meridians, chills and heat, pain in the bones, stagnant tongue, atrophy and yellow face"

Modern medicine believes that the disorder of the human immune system caused by various factors such as genetics, environment and infection is the key to the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis.

In the last article, we introduced the modern scientific basis for "fat"

Allogeneic proteins, hormones, etc.

Based on the understanding of TCM and Western medicine on the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis, patients with rheumatoid arthritis should pay special attention to diet, which can aggravate the immune system disorder and TCM believes that it is the occurrence of wind, cold accumulation, dampness, and heat.

Some scholars have counted a total of 256 patients with rheumatoid immune arthropathy (rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, etc.

The statistical results show that:

●The strong hairs with a ratio of more than 20% include horse-noodled fish, clams, waxy wax, mussels, thousand shells, crayfish, pig head meat, and pig intestines

●Strong hairs with a ratio above 15% include squid, sea shrimp, sea crab, sea cucumber, mussel, snail and goose

●The ratio of above 10% is generally hairtail, yellow croaker, sea silkworm, river crab, and river shrimp

●Those with a ratio below 10% tend to be carp, old hen, cockerel, steamed in snow, autumn eggplant, cantaloupe, pepper, and garlic

The research was conducted in Nanjing, which has certain limitations due to the influence of regional climate and food culture

In this regard, we have listed a relatively common list of rheumatoid arthritis taboos for the reference of rheumatoid patients

People with rheumatoid arthritis should eat as little of these foods as possible, but the list above is not all-inclusive
.

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis must carry out dietary management under the guidance of TCM specialists, and formulate appropriate dietary plans according to individual conditions
.
In addition, patients with rheumatoid disease should also pay more attention to the food they eat to prevent the disease from being induced or aggravated after eating
.