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Auricular acupuncture, or ear acupuncture is similar to body acupuncture. It is a method of treating a variety of physiological and psychological health problems by the stimulation of certain acupuncture points only on the external ear.
Classical body acupuncture is thought to have been originally discovered in China over 5000 years ago; ear acupuncture was also thought to have been discovered in China around the same time, however it has been, until fairly recently, a poor relation of classical body acupuncture.
It was the French physician from Lyon, France, the late Dr. Paul Nogier, who in the 1950's after seeing one of his patients cured of sciatic back pain with the use of ear acupuncture, began research in the development of the modern auricular technique. Dr. Nogier discovered that the position of the ear points and zones were approximately in the position of an upside down fetus, super-imposed on the external ear, with the head located around the lobe of the ear. His research also indicated that every part of the body has its own representative acupuncture point on the external ear (over 100 points), and that stimulation one of these points can influence the corresponding organ linked to that particular ear point.
MS Acupuncture Clinic INC.
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fax: (805) 484-9015
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