Ear to the Ground (news & ideas that integrate auricular)

In one scene, fantastic creatures, oversized fruit, bulbous egg-shaped dens, and futuristic palaces set the stage for a playful landscape, lush, green, with flowing waterways, and filled with joyous nude figures self-absorbed in innocent sexual activities. In another scene, a dark hell-scape, the figures have fallen into eternal damnation, succumbed to temptation. In this scene, an ear is prominently featured with auricular points treating... what else, but sexual desire. The Garden of Earth...

At the Canadian Institute of Auricular Medicine (CIAM) we continue to build on, and share learnings and research from, the collaborative efforts between academic leaders in both TCM and German Auricular Medicine. As part of this effort, CIAM conducted an interview with Dr. Jihong Liu, deputy director of the Center for Preventive Treatment of Diseases at the Foshan Hospital of TCM in Foshan, China. Dr. Liu, who is also a professor and teaches on the subject of ear acupuncture, recently present...

Group Lyonnais d'Etudes Médicales (GLEM) is presenting the 10th International Symposium on Auriculotherapy featuring a program covering topics from the point localizations, to the importance of research, to the use of the Vascular Autonomic Signal (a subject on which CIAM has provided a poster presentation). In support of the work presented by experts in the field of Auriculotherapy and Auricular Medicine, CIAM is providing related supplemental resources at https://www.integrateauricular.ca/g...

Rapid growth in Neuro-auricular Modulation: The recent FDA clearance of a wearable transcutaneous auricular nerve field stimulator (tAN) as developed by Spark Biomedical in Dallas, Texas, and featured in Practical Neurology, is one example of the investment by Pharma and Tech based on the increasing interest in neuro-auricular modulation research. The device, and similar devices like it, stimulate nerves on and around the ear. The microsystem of the ear has been used for millennia in the fiel...

The Canadian Institute of Auricular Medicine (CIAM) is the first continuing education provider to offer a systematic curriculum of Auricular Medicine in English and fully online — based on the work of Dr. Paul Nogier, Dr. Frank Bahr, Dr. Beate Strittmatter and other colleagues of the European School, and endorsed by the German Academy of Acupuncture (Deutsche Akademie für Akupunktur | DAA e.V.). This is a continuation of firsts for CIAM, which has been the only institution in the world to off...

Using auricular causative diagnosis, researchers at the Scientific Acupuncture Department of the Paris XI University have identified an auricular visual marker (AVM) for COVID-19 that corresponds with the Interferon point.  The AVM, observed as an edema, is present within the entire area between the tragus and the ascending branch of the helix on patients with COVID-19. Volf, and her team at the Scientific Acupuncture Department, noted that “In more-severe clinical COVID-19 cases the edema o...

The work of Dr. med. Frank Bahr has shown the Cranial region between Governor Vessel 20-24 (in German, Lenkergefäß, or LG) is especially important for our constitution, and in turn, our future. This relationship coincides with the names of GV 20 and GV 24, respectively known in Traditional Chinese Acupuncture as Baihui or "Master of Spiritual Energy“ and Shenting or "Divine Area." GV 20 also overlaps with the highest Indian Chakra, "Sahasrara" known as the Crown Chakra. Points GV 20 and GV 24...

The Poly- Nature of Our Neural States. Consider the nervous system (see video below), it has one primary function: to ensure the survival of our physical body. As Stephen Porges, researcher at the Kinsey Institute points out from his Polyvagal Theory, “When states of safety are manifest in the structures of the body, the body is poised to serve as a platform for healing.” Unfortunately, many clients/patients seeking improved wellbeing suffer chronic conditions of stress to such an effect that...

Owing to greater awareness of neuro-stimulation via the ear (as seen, for example, in Psychology Today, BBC News, and Psychiatry Advisor), Auricular methods for understanding and treating the body and mind are gaining interest from patients who seek improved wellbeing. The ear is unique in that it receives the major nerve branches. As introduced in the video below, it is a microsystem of the body which projects our somatic and emotional experiences.[1] This auricular microsystem has an extens...

Treatment of the human system via the ear (whether by acupuncture, ear press seeds, Low Level Laser Therapy or electro-stimulation) offers access to detailed projections of the entire Central Nervous System. Auricular methods are applied in medical practices worldwide and recognized by the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA), the World Health Organization (WHO), and other institutional bodies. Even a very shortlist of examples shows the breadth of healthcare settings in ...

BBC News reports on research out of the University of Leeds that the "ear acts as a gateway to the body's nervous system." The report comes after research into an electrical ear stimulation therapy to rebalance the nervous system. Why focus on treating the body via the ear? Innervation of the ear offers an ideal way to access and stimulate a branch of the vagus nerve, a long and well-connected nerve, that transmits information from the brain to organs around the body, such as the heart and lu...