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Lu Han1, Yuan-Hong Xie1, Rong Wu1, Chen Chen1, Yan Zhang1, Xiao-Ping Wang2.
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.Entities:
Keywords: Chinese medicine; Parkinson’s disease; Tai Chi; acupuncture; anti-inflflammatory; antioxidant; complementary and alternative medicine; dopaminergic neuron
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Year: 2017 PMID: 28108911 DOI: 10.1007/s11655-016-2537-7
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Chin J Integr Med ISSN: 1672-0415 Impact factor: 1.978