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Sorry, if I said L-dopa cures Parkinson's. Oliver Sachs wrote about L-dopa and encephalitis lethargica: initially, it awakens people frozen from lethargica--later it creates problems. So, it is not a cure, but has major 'side-effects'.

About the cuban treatment. Late Pierre-Victor Mpoyo[1] went to Cuba for this treatment. Mpoyo was a billionaire, and he had means to the best available services in the world--ranging from France, USSR, USA, etc. As the 'western' treatments didn't help him, he went to Cuba.

[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Victor_Mpoyo




Just spoke to a friend who worked for Mpoyo. Cubans used snake's venom to treat Parkinson's disease.




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