Consensus among Experts on the Integration of Chinese and Western Medicine for Autonomous Neurofunctional Disorders Induced by Parkinson's Disease (2020)

Autonomous neurofunctional disorders induced by Parkinson's disease (PD) is one of the common non-motor symptoms that patients have to bear throughout the disease. The complex clinical manifestations, significant differences between individuals, severe effect on the patients' life quality are the emphases and difficulties of PD treatment. As for the treatment, in Western medicine, the focus is to deal with the symptoms with few evidences under the guideline while traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) applied the holism, treatment based on syndrome differentiation and extensive experience to deal with several symptoms, which is supplementary to Western medicine. The integration of Chinese and Western medicine can effectively improve autonomous neurofunctional disorders induced by PD. Domestic experts on the integration of Chinese and Western medicine adhere to the thought of "combination of disease and symptoms, integration of diagnosis and treatment" and make full use of their respective advantages to achieve consensus on the combination of Chinese and Western medicine for autonomous neurofunctional disorders induced by PD, thus providing reference for the diagnosis and treatment of autonomous neurofunctional disorders induced by PD for doctors.