[分享]MECHANISM OF AURICULAR DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT

MECHANISM OF AURICULAR DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT
Auricular therapy has been proven to be effective in the diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of diseases and disorders, and extensive research based on clinical findings has been done to investigate its mechanism. At present the following three theories concerning the mechanism of auricu1ar diagnosis and treatment are widely acccepted.
I  Holographic Reflex Theory
The concept of holographic reflex theory was first raised only twenty years ago. In order to understand this concept, we must first introduce the theory of the inverted-fetus pattern of auricular point distribution developed in the l950’s by French scholar Dr. Paul Nogier, the founder of modern auricular therapy. In his 《Treatise of Auricular Therapy》published in 1972’s. Dr. Nogier explains the process of his discovery. After being trained in techniques of Chinese acupuncture and observing several patients who are successfully treated for sciatica by cauterization of a point on the inferior crus of the anti-helix, Dr. Nogier conducted further investigation into this method, with equally successful results.
After analyzing these clinical findings, he postulated that if the point on the inferior crus of the anti-helix which related to sciatica and also represented the sciatic nerve, then the rest of the anti-helix must represent the vertebral column, but in an inverted position.
Confirming this hypothesis with several clinical studies, he made the logical extension that so oriented in an upside down position.
Nogier came to view the auricle as a homunculus of the human body similar in shape to an inverted fetus , with the head towards the lower lobe, the feet towards the upper rim of the ear, and the body in between.
Dr. Nogier’s theory has collaborated by the following clinical observations. When there is dysfunction or disorder in a certain part of the body, there is an increase in tenderness when pa1pated and a decrease in electric skin resistance in the corresponding part of the ear. Sometimes there are observable Structural changes at these points, such as shiny redness white flakiness, or eminence.
When these auricu1ar points are treated with taping, pressure, massage, electrical stimulation, or puncturing, there is often immediate relief of discomfort or other somatic changes in the corresponding parts of the body.
Holographic reflex theory offers an explanation for the somatic relationship between the ear and the body. In the holographic reflex art, the holography related neurons in the brain are the center of the reflex arc, centrally located in the brain stem. Message transfer among auricular points, holography related neurons, and parts of the body corresponding to the auricular points is bi-directional.

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