Recent Advances of Traditional Chinese Medicine for Parkinson's Disease Treatment
10.11842/wst.2014.04.042
- VernacularTitle:帕金森病中医治疗进展
- Author:
Zhe LI
;
Yingyu HU
;
Xiaodong LUO
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Parkinson's disease;
traditional Chinese medicine;
treatment;
review
- From:
World Science and Technology-Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine
2014;(4):908-914
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a commonly encountered central neurodegenerative disease in elderly people. According to theories of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), PD is characterized by deficiency in the root and excess in the branch. Deficiency was referred to qi-blood deficiency of the liver and kidney. Excess was referred as the wind, fire, phlegm and stasis. Deficiency was the root and excess was the branch. Good efficacies have been obtained by treatment based on syndrome differentiation, treatment with specific prescriptions, acupuncture and moxibustion and comprehensive treatment. Some experiments had been conducted to elucidate its mechanisms. However, no uni-fied standard for therapeutic evaluation, poor control of medicinal quality, inferior quality of designed clinical trials, and unclear treatment mechanism in the clinical study on therapeutic effect of PD treatment with TCM require fur-ther studied.
