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If you are still reading then you are the real curious type,
kind of like us. That's O.K. That's why we've provided this
page just for you detail-oriented people.

Auriculotherapy is based on Chinese Accupuncture which is
approximately 2,200 years old. The West's investigation of
accupuncture began in approximately 1956 when a
frenchman named Dr. Nogier began researching the validity
of accupuncture as it pertained to the ear. He was the first
one to come up with a somatotopic map of the human body
upon the external ear. He determined that one could find
points in the human ear that corresponded to the rest of the
body. He found that there was a distinctive pattern to these
points that resemble an inverted fetus.

In the United States, auriculotherapy has been used to
break drug addictions since at least 1973. At about that
same time, researchers at UCLA began to investigate the
merits of auriculotherapy in diagnosing patients with skeletal
pain. The first double blind test was performed in 1980 that
proved auriculotherapy was successful in alleviating pain
experienced by a group of dental patients.

So as far as the western hemisphere is concerned, we have
been studying auricular therapy for approximately 60 years.
During this time, various protocols have been developed to
treat numerous conditions. While our smoking cessation
program has been our most popular, we also offer other
programs including our weight loss program.