[Traditional Chinese medicine in treatment of Parkinson's disease].
Parkinson's disease is a commonly encountered central nervous retrograde affection in elder persons. According to the theories of traditional Chinese medicine, Parkinson's disease is characterized by deficiency in the Ben (root) and excess in the Biao (branch). The Ben (root) is insufficiency of liver and kidney and deficiency of qi and blood; and the Biao (branch) is wind, fire, phlegm and stasis. Good therapeutic effects have been obtained by treatment based on syndrome differentiation, treatment with specific prescriptions and acupuncture. The further study on literatures, standardized criterion of symptoms differentiation and therapeutic effect determination as well as the screening and further research on the effective prescriptions and herbs should be paid more attention, meanwhile, the integration of herbs and acupuncture will be conducive to raise the therapeutic effect.
Zhang
Qiu-Juan
QJ
Institute of Cardio-cerebrovascular Disease, Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 200437, China.
Zhang
Yun-Yun
YY
Huang
Wen-Yan
WY
D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology