Parkinson's Disease Treatment

Parkinson’s disease is a progressive neurological condition, and the tremor, the slowness and the rigidity are what most people notice first. What tends to go unmentioned is everything around it — stiffness running from the neck down the back, difficulty swallowing hard food, drooling, foot cramps at night, dry mouth, constipation, broken sleep, and the anxiety and low mood that come with living with all of it.

Parkinson’s disease is a progressive neurological condition, and the tremor, the slowness and the rigidity are what most people notice first. What tends to go unmentioned is everything around it — stiffness running from the neck down the back, difficulty swallowing hard food, drooling, foot cramps at night, dry mouth, constipation, broken sleep, and the anxiety and low mood that come with living with all of it.

Acupuncture reaches a good deal of that. In our own case work we have seen tremor come down in both how hard and how often it strikes, rigidity and bradykinesia ease, sleep and bowel motility improve, and the fatigue and stiffness through the neck and back settle. Some patients find they need less of their anti-parkinsonian medication and that the side effects become easier to live with, though any change to a prescription is a conversation for their neurologist and not for us.

We cannot say that acupuncture raises dopamine. What we can say is that whatever the dopamine status, patients often move and feel better.

We have included below the other research we have done on herbs and supplements for Parkinson’s, as well as what Dr Ray Dorsey has to say about the disease.