Chinese Auricular Acupuncture PDF

Preface

The purpose of this book is to provide students and practitioners of Oriental medicine with a clear, concise, user-friendly manual on ear acupuncture. Many books abound on this topic, yet in this author's experience they tend to make the study of the ear more complicated than it needs to be. Additionally, most books are not practically oriented for the student or clinician who is interested in an easy-to-do yet efficacious modality. Neither do such books tend to explain auricular medicine within the framework of traditional Oriental energetics that is consistent with the use of the medicine. In this text, the reader is given the opportunity to reduce the necessity for memorization or the need to consult manuals for reference because the method of using ear acupuncture is consonant with the underpinnings of an education in traditional Chinese medicine.

I have practiced ear acupuncture for over 30 years and have taught it for over two decades. This experience allows me to deliver a manual that can be independently studied and easily used to treat the many diseases that characterize the human condition. Ultimately, the simplicity of the paradigm presented and the way it is exposed should allow the reader to see the practical utilization of auricular therapy within the practice of Oriental medicine. In this way one can be weaned from the text because the thought processes of how to locate points, select modalities, construct prescriptions, and apply them to the uniqueness of each person have been carefully organized and outlined. In contrast to many books, I offer only one ear map consistent with Chinese texts that I have studied and the Chinese doctors with whom I studied in Beijing, China, instead of pages and pages of maps and systems. Thus the art of auricular medicine is elegantly simplified.