Acupuncture points on the ear are effectively used to treat
illness. In 1957, Dr. Nogier developed a map of the ear based
upon the inverted fetus concept, when he observed the occurrence
of scars on the ears of a patient who were successfully treated
for sciatic pain by French lay practitioners. Auricular
acupuncture is a treatment system based on normalizing the
body's pain and His work was first presented in France and then
published by a German acupuncture society and then finally
translated into Chinese. In 1958, a massive study was initialed
by Nanking Army Ear Acupuncture research team which verified the
clinical accuracy of Dr. Nogier's inverted man concept of, the
little man on the ear. In 1980, a double blind experimentally
controlled research study at UCLA Pain Management Center
department of anesthesiology UCLA School of Medicine conducted a
research study by Richard J. Kroeuning M.D., Ph.D and Terry D.
Oleson Ph.D. This study reported in PAIN verified the scientific
accuracy of auricular (ear) dia