J Tradit Chin Med. 2000 Dec; 20(4): 265-7.

Acupuncture treatment of Parkinson's disease--a report of 29 cases.

Zhuang X, Wang L.

Second Clinical College, Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy, Nanjing 210029, Jiangsu Province.

It can be concluded that acupuncture possesses definite therapeutic effectiveness for Parkinson's disease, which is mainly represented by improvement in the clinical symptoms and signs, delaying of the disease's progression, decrease in the dosage of anti-parkinsonian drug, and expectant treatment of the complications and symptoms induced by the drug side-effects.