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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 7 Chinese Fumigation treatment of knee osteoarthritis 30 cases [Keywords:] of knee osteoarthritis, herbal fumigation, External Knee osteoarthritis in the elderly is a common degenerative joint disease, mainly due to degeneration of the knee, causing damage to the articular cartilage, bone hyperplasia, joint space narrowing, and many patients with synovitis, there knee pain, dysfunction, swelling of the fluid. The author applies traditional Chinese medicine outside the washing treatment of knee osteoarthritis, 30 cases achieved good effect, and no adverse reactions, are reported below. 1 Clinical data 1.1 General Information 60 patients for the May 2004 -2007 Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in October outpatient cases acupuncture. Use Excel to generate a random series, and to sort the number of random numbers and grouping objects correspond to the numbers were randomly divided into control group and 30 patients in each treatment group. the treatment group, 9 cases of men, 21 women, aged 42 to 67 years (mean 57.57 + -5.33) years, duration of a minimum of 3 months and a maximum 5-year average (32.47 + -17.24 ) months, 20 cases with knee joint synovitis. the control group 11 patients were male, 19 females, aged from 45 to 64 years (mean 57.20 + -4.45) years, duration of minimum 6 months up to 5 years average (32.53 + -17.12) months, 18 cases with knee joint synovitis .2 general information group, the difference was not significant (Pgt; 0.05), comparable. 1.2 Diagnostic criteria According to the 1995 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) revised diagnostic criteria of osteoarthritis [1]: ① 1 month before treatment have knee pain most of the time, ② osteophyte formation, ③ Check the synovial fluid of osteoarthritis found , ④ agedgt; 40 years old, ⑤ morning stiffness lt;30 min, ⑥ bone friction sound. meet ① + ② or in ① + ③ + ⑤ + ⑥ or in ① + ④ + ⑤ + ⑥ strips can be diagnosed as osteoarthritis of the knee. 1.3 Inclu