Trial of Ginsenoside Compound K (GCK) Tablet in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis

Exclusion Criteria

• •Patients have prior exposure to any csDMARDs or bDMARDs.
• •Patients have received corticosteroids, or Chinese medicine preparations such as tripterygium wilfordii, total glucosides of paeony for RA treatment.
• •Patients with fibromyalgia
• •Patients diagnosed with any systemic inflammatory disease other than RA, including but not limited to juvenile chronic arthritis, spondyloarthropathy, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, psoriatic arthritis, active vasculitis or gout, and siccasyndrome.
• •Diagnosis of Felty Syndrome.
• •Any major surgery has been performed within 8 weeks prior to the study, or will be performed during the study, from which investigators believe posing an unacceptable risk to the patient.
• •Patient with cardiovascular, respiratory, liver, gastrointestinal, endocrine, hematological, neurological or psychiatric disorders or any other serious and/or unstable disease or medical history, or serious infection, and the investigators believe that these diseases or history may pose risks in the case of taking research drugs, or may interfere with the analysis of data.
• •Patients who are unable to carry on normal activity or to do active work or unable to take care of themselves.
• •Patients with history of malignant tumors and lymphoproliferative diseases.
• •Patients with active HBV or HCV or history of HIV infection.
• •Active TB diagnosed during screening or with a history of active TB that has not been appropriately treated.
• •Patients who are currently pregnant or breastfeeding.
• •Female patients of childbearing potential or male subjects with partners of childbearing potential not willing to use a highly effective method of contraception during the study and 28 days after last administration.
• •Patient who participated in any investigational drug study within three months.
• •Specific laboratory abnormality including:
• •1. AST or ALT \> 1.5 times ULN
• •2. Total bilirubin \> 1.5 times ULN
• •3. Hemoglobin ≤ 85 g/L
• •4. White blood cells count ≤ 3.5×109/L
• •5. Absolute neutrophil count \< 1.5×109/L
• •6. Lymphocyte Count \< 0.75×109/L
• •7. Platelet count \< 90×109/L
• •8. Creatinine \> ULN
• •* Any other situation, in the opinion of the investigator, characterizes the subject as not being a good candidate for the study.