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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 9 Chinese and Western medicine treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee with the progress of treatment [Keywords:] Osteoarthritis; knee; Zhong Xi Yi Jie Osteoarthritis (osteoarthritis, OA) is a clinically common chronic joint disease, is caused by one of the main knee joint pain. Knee osteoarthritis is a result of articular cartilage degeneration caused by osteoarthritis as the main performance of joint disease. Pathological morphological changes are mainly the limitations of sexual articular cartilage destruction, subchondral bone density changes, marginal bone and cartilage formation and joint deformities, main clinical manifestations were joint pain, initially mild dull pain, not serious, after the step by step heavier developed to a certain degree of arthritis can cause joint swelling and dysfunction, its characteristic demonstrated increased activity and weight-bearing pain, rest after mitigation, and have morning stiffness and the stalemate situation has seriously affected normal life and work in patients with . Knee osteoarthritis is the rank among the top limb bone joints in osteoarthritis, its incidence increased with age while the increase occurred in more than 40 years of age in elderly patients. Modern medicine in the treatment of the main to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, intra-articular injection of hyaluronic acid to protect cartilage and other treatment, severe cases, surgical treatment feasible [1]. The traditional Chinese medicine treatment of the disease have unique advantages, there are already a large number reported in the literature, especially in traditional Chinese medicine external treatment, because of its long history, less pain, as well as the precise effect of low-cost and widely used by clinical. In recent years, combining Chinese and Western medicine is now on the treatment of the clinical treatment of this disease are summarized below. A non-surgical therapy 1.1 Oral and topical Chinese medicine t