Principles and Practice

Auricular Therapy is a form of acupunture which works exclusively with the auricle (outer ear).  The principle is that the ear contains acupuncture points that are linked to all regions of the body and when these points are stimulated it will improve the function of the region of the body it is linked to.

The ear can be examined to first determine which parts of the body are experiencing problems.  Once the areas are determined, the acupuncture points on the ear are stimulated by electricity, the insertion of acupuncture needles, a blunt probe, finger pressure or seed treatment.

Auricular Threapy comes from the heritage of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Today it is being used throughout the world.

Benefits

Since the ear is linked to various regions of the body the effects of Auricular Therapy are body wide. People with the following conditions have found it to be beneficial: arthritis, asthma, indigestion, migraine, urinary problems and nervous disorders but you should not limit its benefits to these conditions. It can be used to determine weakness in the body before those weeknesses become symptomatic.  It can then help to strengthen those weeknesses thus can be an important part of obtaining optimum health function.

It has been used extenstively in the treatment of addiction to drugs, food, alcohol or tobacco.  There are some states which will offer auricular therapy treatment to crimal offenders as a replacement for their jail term sentence, because it has shown to be so effective.

References

http://www.auriculotherapy-intl.com/

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