In order to investigate the clinical efficacy of acupuncture combined with traditional Chinese medicine fumigation in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) by meta-analysis, literature related to the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis by acupuncture combined with traditional Chinese medicine fumigation are searched in line with the research direction. Meta-analysis is conducted by RevMan 5.2 software. A total of 17 literature are included and the publication bias of the included literature is low. The experimental results show that acupuncture combined with traditional Chinese medicine fumigation can reduce the inflammatory response and clinical symptoms of RA patients, and the addition of acupuncture can improve the clinical efficacy, which has a certain feasibility of promotion.

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