Auricular
Acupuncture
Auricualu acupuncture was first recognized in the early 1970s as treatment for patients
addicted to cocaine and opium in Hong Kong. Since they, auricular acupuncture has been
used in addiction detoxification protocols worldwide. Dr. Paul Nogier, a French neurologist
and acupuncturist, first developed auricular acupuncture as a formal somatotopic system.
With his initial recognition that the "sciatic point", in fact, correlated with the 4th-5th lumbar
vertebrae rather than sciatic as an ailment, Nogier discovered the primary correspondence
of the body on the auricle in an "inverted fetus" presentation. This observation led to the
eventual identification of the body's anatomic or structural correspondence with zones in the
auricle.
In China, Chinese acupuncture doctors and scientific researchers have discovered
hundreds more correspondence points according to traditional Chinese acupuncture theory
and clinical observations. Auricular acupuncture has become a very important branch of
traditional acupuncture practice. And it has been used to treat a wide range of health
conditions successfully.
Currently, acupuncturists use the auricular reflexing points not only to treat a variety of
illnesses and addictions, but also use them to diagnose certain disorders.
According to our clinical experience, auricular therapy is more effective for treatment of
Obesity, Insomnia, Anxiety, Stress, Neurological Pain, Depression as well as addictions to
drugs, cigarettes and alcohol. In our practice we often use auricular therapy in conjunction
with regular acupuncture techniques and herbal remedies. We fund that more enduring
clinical effects may be obtained with treatment of properly identified points. Proper
identification and treatment of auricular points is essential for a practitioner to treat the
patients' auricle in a true medical model rather than in a cursory technical approach. And all
patients must be assessed individually on each visit as active auricular points will often vary
from one treatment session to the next. Recipe treatments should be discouraged as they
represent "one answer for all" and are rarely successful.
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