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Also known as auricular therapy, ear acupuncture is the flag of the ear is treated with acupuncture needles to relieve the pain, illness or disability of the body. This practice is part of a series of so-called “holographic” systems as the body of someone in the little ones can theorize to be represented in the organization. Another example is the nose Chinese acupuncture or hand acupuncture developed in Korea.

All body functions are thought to be represented in the many curves and folds of the ear, a kind of drawing inverted fetus is often used to represent schematically the statement. More than 200 specific points of acupuncture on the ear.

From the ancient Chinese practice of acupuncture, a French man named Dr. Paul Nogier first developed this new form of acupuncture in 1957.

All forms of acupuncture developed in China by the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine, found that about 500 BC This book, only six yang channels were attached to the ear of the ear was built. In this six yin meridians, which are indirectly related to the ear indirectly according to their specific counterparts Yang.

Dr. Nogier, doctor of Lyons in France, was originally in the ear scars of patients were successfully treated for sciatica by French lay practitioners. Having developed the map somatatopic ear, his work has been shown to start in France and later published in Germany by the German Society of Acupuncture. Finally, this new development has been translated into Chinese acupuncture. In 1958, a major study on the effectiveness of acupuncture, this technique has been conducted by the Nanjing Army Ear Acupuncture research team. Dr. Nogier theory of inverted fetus was accepted as clinically accurate, and during the Cultural Revolution, so-called “barefoot doctors are trained in simple techniques of ear acupuncture. Many Chinese were soon able try this new form of health care.

Chinese and French were the ear acupoints for many years realized by the year 1990, the National Organization, an international meeting and normalizes ear anatomical terms used.

auricular acupuncture is now used to recommend special Chinese herbal medicine. atrial locations are chosen in accordance with:

(1) connected regions of the body, pain or disease have
(2) points of contact pathological reactive
(3) the teachings of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM)
(4) the theory of meridians
(5) of modern western medicine, physiological theories
(6) other auricular points, the promise shown in the recent past have given way and the search for this form of acupuncture.

In 1995, the World Health Organization in tandem with the Chinese government has defined the location of 91 points, especially the ear acupuncture.