Auriculotherapy is a holistic discipline typical of Traditional Chinese Medicine that intervenes on specific points of the auricle to treat the human body. Let's find out better.
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What is auriculotherapy
Auriculotherapy consists of the intervention on specific points of the auricle for therapeutic purposes. Also known as auricolopuntura or auricular acupuncture, it is a technique belonging to the body of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Auriculotherapy is based on the assumption that the auricle reproduces in detail the whole of the human organism.
The ear is the place of confluence of precise energy channels corresponding to organs and functions of the organism. These acupuncture points are stimulated, through different methods, to treat organic diseases and various types of energy imbalances. As a discipline, auriculotherapy was born in France in the fifties of the twentieth century, by a doctor from Lyon, Dr. Paul Nogier. Since then, auricular therapy has spread throughout the world, giving rise to various schools, including the German, the American and the Italian one. From the works of Nogier various scientists have set out to experiment with fields of intervention and new theories. These include Bahr, Jarricot, Romoli, Oleson, Sponzilli, Bazzoni, Pagani, Pellin, Groblas-Levi and Bourdiol.
Benefits and contraindications
The effectiveness of the treatment is denoted after the first sessions, especially for therapies aimed at addictions to smoking, food and alcohol . It is precisely in the context of these latter applications that auricular therapy is most successful among the average population, also considering the presence of specific auricular stimulators on the market, sponsored as useful for smoking cessation or for weight loss.
Like Chinese acupuncture, auriculotherapy is also characterized by a low presence of side effects . This allows all age groups to approach this discipline and undergo auricular stimulation treatments.
For those who benefit from auriculotherapy
Among the disorders and diseases treatable through auriculotherapy we find insomnia, anxiety, stress, panic attacks, depression, nausea, vomiting, shyness, smoking, alcohol addiction, overweight, hunger control, sciatica, sciatica, cervical pain, scapulohumeral periatritis, psoriasis, infertility, erectile dysfunction, treatment of tonsils and discomfort due to posture.
The law in Italy and abroad
In 1987 in Seoul and 1991 in Lyon, the WHO has recognized and standardized auricular acupuncture points . In 1995, the National Federation of the Order of Physicians inserted the "Auriculotherapy" item in the FNOOM tariff, making it an official medical therapy that can be practiced by medical personnel alone.
In Italy, to practice acupuncture it is necessary to be a doctor or veterinary graduate . In our country there has long been a real 'school' of auriculotherapy. Among the most important exponents of this technique there are certainly Marco Romoli (settogram), Osvaldo Sponzilli (REM emotional reflexology, great reflex technique, auricular chromopuncture) and Claudio Pagani (law of the five movements).
Curiosity about auriculotherapy
Nogier had observed that several of his patients from Corsica reported cauterizations at the level of the auricle. Analyzing the clinical history of these patients, the doctor discovered that these cauterizations were carried out in Corsica by some farriers, of a certain skill, to treat sciatica pains. Intrigued by this discovery, Nogier investigated the history of medicine to discover previous therapeutic purposes related to the ear. What he found were innumerable testimonies of similar practices, from Hippocrates to the present day.
Thus the doctor of Lyons set to work to experiment the various points of the ear, discovering that it contains the representations of the innervations of the various organs and apparatuses in such a way as to provide in the ear the image of an upside-down fetus .
