The Treatment of Parkinson's Disease by Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine

Parkinson’s disease is the most common central nervous system disorder. It is an idiopathic, slowly progressive degeneration of automatic and gross motor function. Parkinson’s disease is characterised by impaired movement, muscular rigidity, resting tremor, and postural instability. In the United States, 50,000 new cases of Parkinson’s disease are diagnosed in the geriatric population per year. This is a rate of one in 200.