title: Traditional Chinese medicine for modern treatment of Parkinson's disease.
abstract: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic and progressive degenerative disorder of brain commonly seen among the elderly. As conventionally medical therapy is of limited relief and potential side effects, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has attracted growing public and professional attention. Therapies such as acupuncture, musical/rhythmic therapy and deep brain stimulation have been gradually proved positively in clinic. In this review, we retrospected the scientifific or evidence-based-medicine advances of application and research for modern treatment of PD by CAM, especially traditional Chinese medicine in categories.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Shanghai Tong-Ren Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200336, China.
authors.forename: Lu
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Han
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Shanghai Tong-Ren Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200336, China.
authors.forename: Yuan-Hong
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Shanghai Tong-Ren Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200336, China.
authors.forename: Rong
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Shanghai Tong-Ren Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200336, China.
authors.forename: Chen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Shanghai Tong-Ren Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200336, China.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Shanghai Tong-Ren Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200336, China. wangxp@ustc.edu.
authors.forename: Xiao-Ping
authors.initials: XP
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D000818:Animals; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D026302:Tai Ji
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal
keywords: Chinese medicine; Parkinson’s disease; Tai Chi; acupuncture; anti-inflflammatory; antioxidant; complementary and alternative medicine; dopaminergic neuron