Experience of LI Shinian Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis by Invigorating Spleen and Removing Dampness

It is to introduce the therapeutic experence in rheumatoid arthritis of LI Shinian.LI Shinian thinks that the spleen deficiency has intimate relationship with the development,turnover and prognosis of rheumatoid arthritis,and in TCM theory the main etiological factor of rheumatoid arthritis is stasis of dampness,so he produces the method of invigorating spleen and removing dampness as the fundamental therapeutic principle,and creates Yiren Decoction as the basic formula,which in clinical treatment can get satisfactory effect by modification with syndrom differentiation.