ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2007
Ear acupuncture in European traditional medicine.
Article in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 51 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Adjunctive Treatment of Major Depression Utilizing Auricular Acupuncture
Acupuncture for Postoperative Analgesia in Laparoscopic Surgery
Who cites it
51 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 171 citations in OpenAlex.
- Barriers and facilitators for patients' acceptance and adherence to auriculotherapy: A qualitative systematic review using the theoretical domains framework.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2025Pooled it
- Auricular acupressure for insomnia in women with breast cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Effectiveness of auriculotherapy for anxiety, stress or burnout in health professionals: a network meta-analysis.Revista latino-americana de enfermagem · 2022Pooled it
- Auricular acupuncture with seed or pellet attachments for primary insomnia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2015Pooled it
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- Application of auriculotherapy in cancer-related fatigue symptom cluster: a scoping review.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Article
- Can Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation be Effective After Rats' Spinal Cord Injury?Cureus · 2026Article
- Auricular Acupuncture for Facial Aesthetics: A Preliminary Retrospective Clinical Study of 217 Cases.Journal of cosmetic dermatology · 2026Article
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- Auricular Acupressure Versus an Intermittent Low-Carbohydrate Diet in Children With Overweight or Obesity With Gastric-Heat and Dampness-Obstruction Syndrome: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Effect of Laser Auriculotherapy on Quality of Life, Fatigue, and Anxiety in Women with Advanced Breast Cancer: Randomized Clinical Trial.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Efficacy and Safety of Non-Pharmacological Therapies for Primary Dysmenorrhea: A Network Meta-Analysis.Journal of pain research · 2025Review
- Factors associated with nurses' search for training in auriculotherapy: a national cross-sectional study.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P · 2024Article
- Multi-level exploration of auricular acupuncture: from traditional Chinese medicine theory to modern medical application.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Review
- Auricular Acupuncture for Lowering Blood Glucose in Type 2 Diabetes: A Pilot Study.Medical acupuncture · 2023Article
- Reflex Auriculo-Cardiac (RAC) Induced by Auricular Laser and Needle Acupuncture: New Case Results Using a Smartphone.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Needle contact test in auricular acupuncture for shoulder pain and where effective auricular acupoints identified are positioned on the map: A controlled study.European journal of translational myology · 2023Article
- Semi-Permanent Ear (Aguille SP) Needle "Migration" into the External Auditory Canal.Medical acupuncture · 2023Article
- The Effect of Auriculotherapy on Situational Anxiety Trigged by Examinations: A Randomized Pilot Trial.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Auricular acupuncture is a diagnostic and treatment system based on normalizing the body's dysfunction through stimulation of definite points on the ear. Rudimentary forms of acupuncture which probably arose during the Stone Age have survived in many parts of the world right down to present day. It was used in the ancient Egypt, Rome, Greece and all the Mediterranean area. It is a microacupuncture technique similar to reflexology, and was first described in France in 1950 by Paul Nogier who is considered the Father of modern ear acupuncture. It was speculated that the technique works because groups of pluripotent cells contain information from the whole organism and create regional organization centers representing different parts of the body. Nevertheless stimulation of a reflex point in the ear seems relieve symptoms of distant pathologies. Modern research is confirming the efficacy of ear acupuncture for analgesia and anxiety related disease, while tobacco dependence and other substance abuse still need confirmation. Actually main methodological problems with auricular acupuncture are that exist too many maps with little agreement regarding point location in the ear, and that the correspondence or reflex systems does not correlated with modern knowledge of anatomy and physiology.
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