Antirheumatic drugs are used in the therapy of inflammatory arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and ankylosing spondylitis. These drugs while administered to the patients we can observe a drastic improvement in the patients with rheumatoid arthritis. There are of three types

1. Nonsteroidal antirheumatic drugs

2. Glucocorticoids

3. Nonbiological and biological immunosuppressive or immunomodulating agents.