Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis by external application of cocklebur fruit

Xanthium sibiricum is used to assist in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Xanthium sibiricum is a commonly used Chinese herbal medicine preparation, bitter taste, sweet and spicy, warm nature, return to the lung and liver meridians, with the role of dispersing wind cold, clearing nose orifices, dispelling rheumatism and relieving pain. It is mainly used for cold, rheumatism, pain and rubella itching. Therefore, it can be used to assist in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Of course, the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, can not rely solely on this blind Chinese herbal medicine to cure, mainly rely on western medicine treatment. Rheumatoid arthritis is a symmetric polyarthritis as the main manifestation, chronic systemic autoimmune disease, the cause is not completely clear, so there is no specific drug can be radical cure, mainly symptomatic treatment.