Treatment Of Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Review

Abstract

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic disease that affects 0.5–1% of the population and is characterized by autoimmunity, joint inflammation, and cartilage degradation. The joints are severely injured with RA, which ultimately results in their degeneration and deformity. Numerous ingredients included in herbal treatments have the potential to treat RA. People with chronic diseases appear to be a group where the use of complementary and alternative interventions or therapies is particularly prevalent. Herbal medicine is one therapy that has been found to potentially be helpful in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (phytotherapy). There is a need for research on the effectiveness and safety of herbal treatments since people with rheumatoid arthritis are becoming more interested in them. Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), which are used to manage pain and inflammation, disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs), which are used as first-line therapy for all newly diagnosed cases of RA, and biological response modifiers, which are targeted agents that specifically inhibit certain immune system molecules, are the current treatments used to treat RA. RA is also treated with glucocorticoids and other antirheumatic medications. Due to their expensive costs or risky safety profile, biological medicines have only a few applications. A novel treat-to-target strategy is devised to treat rheumatoid arthritis more affordably and safely.