The invention discloses new applications of a medicament Fingolimod. The applications comprise applications of Fingolimod or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, and solvates thereof to preparation of a medicament for protecting a dopaminergic nerve cell strain SH-SY5Y damaged by 6-OHDA, and applications of Fingolimod or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, and solvates thereof to prevention and / or treatment of a neurodegenerative disease, wherein the neurodegenerative disease is Parkinson's disease. Researches show that Fingolimod can delay progression of the Parkinson's disease with substantial effects; mechanisms of action of Fingolimod which is used as a novel medicament derived from natural products are different from mechanisms of action of clinical existed medicaments for resisting Parkinson's disease, and mainly have special emphasis on protection effects of dopaminergic neurons, so that a cross resistance phenomenon does not happen.