The Clinical Research On Treating Knee Osteoarthritis By Antiphlogistic Relaxing Stasis Soup With 5-Knee Points

knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a joint cartilage degeneration and joint surrounding bone hyperplasia with pathologic features of chronic progressive joint disease. As far as the knowledge grasped by our nation's medical circle, according to its symptoms, it was classified under the category of "rheumatism", "heumatism", and "knee numbness".With the deepening of research on knee osteoarthritis in recent years inside and outside China, certain effect has been achieved through using traditional Chinese or western methods. However, there is no breakthrough up to now and ideal treatment is yet to be available. It is still well recognized as a knot of osteo disease. Due to the extension of human longevity, the incidence of this disease is dramatically increased. For the people over age of 60,50% of them have indication of osteoarthritis in the X-ray examination, in which 35%-50% have clinical features. For the people over age of 75,80% of them have osteoarthritis, which severely affects their healthy and quality of life. Knee osteoarthritis has the features of long course and recurrent attacks. Also, the poor drug effect of expensive Western medicine with great side effect cause huge financial and mental burdens to the patients. In this connection, an effective treatment method is urgently needed nowadays.Antiphlogistic Relaxing Stasis Soup With 5-Knee Points was drawn from the clinical experience of Chen Hanlong, a Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor of Shantou Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, which is also a conventional treating method in the above hospital. According to Chen, Shantou is moist and hot, life rhythm is relatively tense, hence,people's physique in coastal area of Guangdong is in general moist heat and Knee osteoarthritis in the area is most caused by empty mark reality, muscle displaced, hot and humid condition. The soup could clearing heat and promoting dieresis, remove obstruction in channels to relieve pain and tonify the liver and kidney. Positive effects were achieved when using this method to treat the patients. In addition, it is a simple, economical and convenient method with great application prospects. The research aims to study the effect the soup for treating moist heat patient, analyze its clinical healing effect, explor its mechanism of drug action and therefore find out effective experience for learning and inheritance. It is also meaningful to guide the young generation to treat KOA.Graded the knee osteoarthritis by WOMAC, which is also the evaluation indexes of healing effect. And in parallel, adopt needle medicine as for the treatment group, to compare with the effect of the contrast group which cloth capsule were used.The treatment group compared with the contrast group, improve the clinical symptoms and signs, WOMAC integral etc, two groups of comparisons P>0.05, two groups of material effect no significant difference,treatment group with needle medicine with high curative effect, has good analgesic effect, boost local microcirculation formation, delay articular cartilage degeneration, and thus obtain the effects of treating the osteoarthritis of the.