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.