....the only hope for PD as a cure. PD is NOT a neurological disease. It is a disorder of the immune and endocrine systems influenced by the GI system and manifesting through the nervous system in part.

I know that is a mouthful but it is true and in a couple of months I will have a site up making the case for it. In the meantime, ponder our relationship to stress. It is the primary problem for a lot of us, yet the neurologists don't even acknowledge that it exists. Stress response is an endocrine system problem.

The endocrine system is one of the most complex things in the body and makes the nervous system look like a bunch of tinker toys. Feedback loops triggering hormonal cascades interfering with neurotransmission and on and on.

The complexity and inter-relationships are so complicated and delicately balanced that it is not possible for Big Pharma's current "magc bullet" approach to do it. The only thing that can fix it is the body itself and that requires that we change our own outlook and our lives. Adaptogens hold great promise in allowing us to do that. The concept is of a substance that restores balance or "homeostasis."

I have been taking ginseng for over two months now and it has made more difference than anything has. If I had started it seven years ago when i was first diagnosed I really wonder if I would still have PD.

While very much under construction, you are invited to drop by www.parkinsonsonline.org and watch as it goes up faster and faster. And some good background can be found at http://www.vrp.com/articles.aspx?ProdID=art123&zTYPE=2
http://www.vrp.com/articles.aspx?ProdID=art1224&zTYPE=2
http://www.vrp.com/articles.aspx?ProdID=art680&zTYPE=2
http://www.vrp.com/articles.aspx?ProdID=art563&zTYPE=2