What to eat for rheumatoid arthritis?

Rheumatoid arthritis is actually quite difficult to treat because it relapses frequently and there is no cure. The only thing patients can do is to take good care of themselves in their daily lives. Patients with rheumatoid arthritis can eat more foods that can remove moisture from the body, such as steamed lamb with aconite root, stewed hen with Stephania tetrandra and mulberry branches, etc.

1. Steamed Lamb with Attached Root

Ingredients: 30 grams of prepared aconite root, 1000 grams of fresh lamb leg meat, 250 grams of meat broth, and 30 grams of cooked lard.

Method: Cook the mutton, remove it and cut it into medium-sized pieces. Wash the aconite slices and put them into a large bowl together with the mutton. Add cooking wine, cooked lard, scallions, ginger slices, and meat broth. Steam for 3 hours. When eating, sprinkle with chopped green onion, MSG, and sesame powder.

Efficacy: Eliminate numbness and dissipate cold, invigorate qi and promote blood circulation. Prepared aconite root is a pungent and hot product, which can replenish fire and yang, and expel wind, cold and dampness; lamb leg meat has the effect of replenishing qi and supporting yang, and is suitable for rheumatoid arthritis with predominant cold evil. Symptoms include severe joint pain, which is relieved by warmth and the local skin color is not red.

2. Braised hen with fangji and mulberry branches

Ingredients: 12g Stephania tetrandra, 30g Morus twig, 100g red bean, 60g Italian hazelnut, 1 old hen

Method: Remove the feathers and internal organs of the old hen, wash it, put the medicine bag into the chicken's chest, put it in the casserole, add appropriate amount of water and simmer until it is cooked. Eat meat and drink soup

Efficacy: Clears away heat and dampness, dispels wind and relieves pain, and Stephania tetrandra promotes diuresis and reduces swelling. Dispel wind and relieve pain; mulberry branches have the effects of dispelling rheumatism, benefiting joints, and promoting the flow of water vapor; red beans are sweet and mild, and can strengthen the spleen, eliminate dampness and detoxify; coix seeds can strengthen the spleen, penetrate dampness, clear away heat and eliminate numbness; old hens can cure weakness after illness and postpartum. This diet therapy is suitable for patients suffering from rheumatic heat arthralgia, with symptoms of local redness, swelling, burning sensation and pain in joints, involving multiple joints, and pain relief after cooling down.

3. Fried Saposhnikovia and Job's tears

Ingredients: 30 grams of Italian hazelnuts and 10 grams of Saposhnikovia divaricata.

Preparation method: Wash coix seeds, decoct them with saposhnikovia divaricata, and take about 200ml of the juice. Take 1 dose daily, finish it all at once, take it for 1 week, stop 3 times and take it again.

Efficacy: dispel wind and dampness, eliminate numbness and relieve pain. Coix seed can strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, clear away heat and remove numbness; it can also dispel wind, eliminate dampness and relieve pain. It is used for patients with rheumatoid arthritis caused mainly by wind evil, with symptoms of joint soreness, wandering, and difficulty in flexion and extension.

4. Aphrodisiac Dog Meat Soup

Ingredients: 500 grams of dog meat, 10 grams of dodder seed, 10 grams of dodder seed, 3 grams of aconite root, 10 grams each of green onion and ginger.

Preparation method: Put the whole piece of dog meat into the pot and cook it thoroughly. Drain it and cut it into small pieces of 2 cm square. Stir-fry it with ginger slices and add Shaoxing wine. Then put it into a large casserole together with the wrapped dodder seeds and aconite slices. Season it with salt, MSG and green onions. Bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer for about 2 hours until the meat is tender.

Efficacy: nourishes the kidney and strengthens yang, dispels cold and dampness, dog meat warms the kidney and helps yang. Bunge fruit nourishes yang and dispels cold, warms the liver and kidneys, and aconite root can replenish fire and help yang, and expel dampness. It is suitable for rheumatoid arthritis of the liver deficiency type, with symptoms of long-term arthralgia, prolonged and unresolved pain in the joints, alternating light and severe joint swelling and deformation, and difficulty in flexion and extension.

5. Preventive health care methods

1. Prevention in daily life

Keep warm and avoid catching cold. Rheumatoid arthritis belongs to the category of "arthritis" in traditional Chinese medicine. It is caused by the invasion of wind, cold and dampness, which leads to poor circulation of qi and blood, resulting in dampness, stasis and phlegm blocking the joints. Therefore, you should always pay attention to keeping your joints warm to avoid catching cold and making your condition worse. In addition, it is better to get more sun exposure on windless and sunny days.

2. Mental conditioning

(1) Pay attention to the regularity of life and ensure adequate sleep so that the body can get adequate rest.

(2) Avoid mental stimulation and excessive mental stress, and maintain a happy mood and optimistic attitude. Excessive mental stress can cause endocrine disorders in the body and increase substances that stimulate vasoconstriction, such as bradykinin and catecholamines, which can also aggravate the condition. Patients with Raynaud's symptoms should pay more attention.