CLINICAL MATERIALSrnThe patient Zhang, a female of 37 years, was a nursery school teach-er. She began to have a pain in her proximal interphalangeal joints ofboth hands and could not clench her both fists after a cold. Then shehad edema, pain, stiffness, and limited activities in her both wrist,elbow and knee joints which were obvious in the morning. She hadbeen diagnesed as rheumatoid arthritis and treated with dexam-eththason, aspirin, and jinopirin per os but the therapeutic effect wasnot significant. The patient came to our magnet therapy center in Oc-tober 2000. Physical examination showed that body temperature was37. 4 ℃, blood pressure, 127/100 mmHg, normal development, eu-trophia, normal head shape, symmetric thorax, regular heart rhythm,with no pathological murmur, no abnormal respiratory sound heard,plane and soft abdomen, no touched liver or spleen, but obvious strongbowel sound. Local symptoms and signs included: pain and edema inphalangeal joints of both hands which could not clench, pain andstiffness and limited activities in both knee and elbow joints especiallyobvious in the morning. Laboratory examinarions showed normal bloodroutine examination results, 54 mm of blood sedimentation, andpositive rheumatoid factor. The diagnosis was rheumatoid arthritis.