Auricular Acupuncture

What is Auricular Acupuncture and How Does it Work?

Simply explained, Auricular (Ear) Acupuncture is a specialized complementary therapy where acupuncture points on the outer ear are treated to help relieve many chronic complaints, e.g. Anxiety, Arthritis, Asthma, Back Pain, Depression, Drug Addiction, Hay Fever, Insomnia, Migraine, Obesity, PMS, Sciatica, Sinusitis, Stopping Smoking, etc. There are over 200 acupuncture points on the outer ear, each point named generally after areas of the anatomy, e.g. knees, hips, shoulders, liver heart etc. The outer ear acts similar to a switchboard to the brain, and when acupoints on the ear are stimulated, they trigger electrical impulses to the specific area of the body that is being treated.

Auricular acupuncture is a variation of body acupuncture-using acupuncture points on the ear.

Very small seeds are taped to the surface of the ear. When the body is not well, the reaction can sometimes be detected by changes to the ear surface (changes to color, texture and sensitivity).

Ear acupuncture is based on the theory that there are connections between the organs of the body and zones of the ear.

Over 2000 years ago, auricular acupuncture was described in Chinese books on internal medicine for the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. In 1958, Dr. Paul Nogier further developed this form of acupuncture and his ear charts were translated into Chinese.

Chinese auricular therapy is the use of auricle for preventive and therapeutic purposes. Specific acupuncture points on the external ear were used for the relief of various disorders of the body over 4,000 years ago. Treatment of Common Diseases with Chinese Auricular therapy include:
Acne, Acute Conjunctivitis, Acute Painful Torticollis, Acute Pyogenic Mastitis, Acute Simple Appendicitis, Acute Sprain and Contusion, Acute Tonsillitis, Aerotitis Media, Allergic Rhinitis, Amenorrhea, Anorexia in Children, Atrial Fibrillation, Bacillary Dysentery, Bronchial Asthma, Bronchitis, Brucellosis. Cardiac Arrhythmia, Cataract, Cholelithiasis, Chronic Gastritis, Chronic Nephritis, Coronary heart Disease and Angina Pectoris, Diabetes Mellitus, Discoid Lupus Erythematosus, Dysfunction Uterine Bleeding, Dysmenorrhea, Eczema, Electric Opthalamia and Snow Blindness, Enuresis, Epidemic Hemorrhagic Fever, Epidemic Parotitis, Epilepsy, Epistaxis, Erythromelalgia, Erysipelas, Facial Neuritis, Female Infertility, Gastric and Duodenal Ulcers, Glaucoma, habitual Constipation, Headache, Herpes Zoster, Hiccough, Hordeolum and Chalazion, Hyperlipidemia, hypertension, Hyperthyroidism, Hypertrophy of the Female Breast, Hypogalatica, Hypotension, Hysteria, Idiopathic Throbocytopenic Purpura, Infantile Convulsions, infantile Diarrhea, Impotence, Insomnia, Intercostal Neuralgia, Leukorrhea, Malaria, Menopause Syndrome, mental Retardation in Children, Migraine, Myasthenia Gravis, Myopia, Neurodermatitis, Neutrophill Leukopenia, Optic Neuritis and Optic Atrophy, Otitis Media, paroxysmal Tachycardia, Plane Wart, Pneumonia, Postmenopausal Urinary Incontinence, Postoperative and Postpartum urinary Retention, Prolapse of the Uterus, Pruritus, Psoriasis, Psychogenic, Vomiting, Psychosis, Rheumatic Heart Disease, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Schizophrenia, Sciatica, Simple Obesity, Smoking Habit, Supraorbital Neuralgia, Syncope, The common Cold, Thromboangitis, Tinnitus and Hearing Decrement, Trigeminal Neuralgia, Ulcerative Colitis, Ureteral Stones, Urticaria, Vitiligo, Whopping Cough

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