Short description
Health professionals from a wide range of backgrounds apply auriculotherapy to successfully relieve chronic pain and treat addictions. This practical handbook combines information on Chinese and French systems of ear acupuncture to offer treatment plans for over 250 medical conditions.
Long description
Health professionals from a wide range of backgrounds apply auriculotherapy to successfully relieve chronic pain and treat addictions. This practical handbook combines information on Chinese and French systems of ear acupuncture to offer treatment plans for over 250 medical conditions. Presenting the ear reflex points based on extensive research conducted at the UCLA Pain Management Centre, it provides a standardized auricular nomenclature system for designating different anatomical zones of the ear, and it represents each ear reflex point with both a number and an auricular zone location. Detailed descriptions are offered on the principles and practice of auriculotherapy, with drawings and photos that are easily interpreted. A wide range of types and principles of ear acupuncture are presented.
Review
Janine Norris, University of Westminster, July 2004
The third edition of this well researched book provides a fascinating insight into the historical development of auriculotherapy. Olesen utilizes his neuroscience background to comprehensively describe the concepts and theories appertaining to the various microsystems within the discipline. Olesen brings together western neurophysiological concepts and oriental energetic concepts, both systems are treated as clinically valid and therapeutically useful. The work will be an invaluable reference source for all practitioners of auriculotherapy.
Table of contents
- Overview and history of auriculotherapy
- Theoretical basis of auriculotherapy
- Anatomy of the auricle
- Auricular zones
- Somatotopic representation on the ear
- Nogier phases of auricular medicine
- Auricular diagnosis procedures
- Auriculotherapy treatment techniques
- Auriculotherapy treatment protocols
- Treatment protocol index
- Index of ear reflex points