The nomenclature of rheumatism is very miscellaneous and varied,seriously influencing academic intercourse and development.In order to standardize the nomenclature and classification,this article,on the basis of studying historical documents and learning from clinical achievements,closely combined clinical practice to research every disease’s name in history corresponding to every patient in clinic.After testing,verifying and comparing repeatedly,these names are now standardized into 4 classes over 60 names from 15 classes over 400 names in history.These new over 60 rheumatism names which are classified after taking view of cause,site,symptom,and characteristics of disease possess scientific and practical value.

The article summed up academic thinking of LOU Duo-feng professor in treating rheumatism.Professor LOU thought that deficiency,pathogen and stasis were the fundamental pathogenesis of rheumatism,and suggested that we should handle deficiency,pathogen and stagnation as a whole in treating rheumatism.There were four treatment principles should be obey in treating rheumatism:firstly,strengthening the genuine-qi to eliminate the evil-qi,simultaneous treatment of principal and subordinate symptoms;Secondly,application of diffusing and obstruction-removing,choosing different medicine according to different location of disease;Thirdly,treatment in accordance with three types of disease causes,treating combing similarities and differences;Lastly,changes of prescriptions and principals according to different courses of disease.In this article,the author list Tongbitang,the basic prescription of Professor LOU in treating rheumatism,and his clinical experience in treating deficiency heat type of obstinate arthralgia.