Abstract
The article highlights ideas on the treatment of MS from the viewpoint of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). According to that viewpoint Multiple Sclerosis is not a nosologic entity, but a peculiar syndrome of atonia and hypertonia of the function of certain internal organs, which need regulation via herbal remedies. The mushroom Hericium Erinaceus, in the West sometimes propagated for use in MS-treatment by alternative healers, has a remarkably different significance in TCM and is not considered to be perfectly suitable for that purpose.