One in fifty of the U.K. population suffer from rheumatoid arthritis alone. This does not include rheumatic arthritis, osteo-arthritis and others.

Many people think it is a disease without hope, as one paper puts it, "the cause is unknown and there is no cure".

As practitioners of Chinese medicine, we take a different view. Rheumatoid arthritis and all other types of arthritis are controllable and reducible if not completely curable.