Auriculotherapy Manual: Chinese and Western Systems of Ear Acupuncture

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 448 pages
• Published by: Churchill Livingstone
• Edition: 3rd Edition July 15, 2002
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0443071624
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0443071621
• Book Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.3 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 2.9 pounds

Product 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."

Product Description
Health professionals from a wide range of backgrounds apply auriculotherapy to successfully relieve chronic pain and treat addictions. The most popular book on the subject, 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 Center, 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.
• Exceptionally illustrated, it features drawings and photographs that are easily interpreted.
• A wide range of types and principles of ear acupuncture are presented.
• The author is a well-known and respected auriculotherapy teacher.

• Every section has been considerably expanded from the previous edition.
• The artwork has been revised throughout.
• All research references have been updated to provide the most current information.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Auriculotherapy Manual: Chinese and Western Systems of Ear Acupuncture (Spiral-bound) Terry Oleson's Auriculotherapy Manual is the most comprehensive text on the subject. If you are practicing Auriculotherapy (a system of ear acupuncture) or intending to do so, this manual is a must-have. This edition is a vast improvement over the previous, which was difficult to use. The new edition is certainly not easy to use, but it's an improvement. The subject is deceptively complex. Just sticking a needle in someone's ear is not Auriculotherapy--there is a level of understanding required to use the system effectively, and using a medical feedback mechanism is essential. Though of course this book is derived from a great deal of Chinese Medical history, it is a very Western-oriented book. Auriculotherapy developed in France as a complete system thanks to Dr. Paul Nogier, so this is to be expected. For a practitioner to master Auriculotherapy, one must incorporate both viewpoints--no small challenge! I personally would like to see someone who knows Traditional Chinese Medicine to co-write the next edition. The book would double in size! I think the Chinese Medical Theory that the Auriculotherapy System derived from deserves to be re-incorporated and included, for the medicine to be whole and complete. This is what's lacking from this text. This book is clearly directed at the student and practitioner of the medicine, and not directed at dabblers or patients. Auriculotherapy is a very serious undertaking, and this is a serious book. Auriculotherapy is very difficult to learn from a book alone. This is the text I require in the Auriculotherapy class I teach at the Northwest Institute of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.