The use of Auricular Medicine to “identify and treat blockages to healing as a new approach to therapy-resistant patients” (as taught in the auricular medicine manual of the same name by Dr. med. Beate Strittmatter), highlights what Dr. Greenberg stated, “auriculotherapy is often effective when other treatments have failed.” As Dr. Greenberg suggested, “the ear holds a microsystem of the body.” In addition to having the map, learning how to palpate autonomic nervous system response through a Vascular Autonomic Signal (VAS), helps guide assessment and treatment on that map to precisely identify and address systemic blockages (i.e. from scar tissue, pain memory, toxicity and many other) above and beyond meridian blockages requiring treatment.

Auricular Medicine, which specifically uses VAS, was developed by the late physician Paul Nogier. In a CIAM auricular training in Toronto this May, Paul Nogier’s former student and colleague, Dr. med. Frank Bahr, a leader in advancing Auricular Medicine in Germany (graduating over 30,000 medical doctors), will present practical demonstrations for clinical application.

The leadership of the �й�Pվ in offering auricular acupuncture offers students a strong basis for the continuing education throughout specific fields of auricular acupuncture, whether the work of Dr. Muriel Agnes, Dr. Frank Bahr, Dr. Bryan Frank, Dr. Richard Niemtzow, Dr. Raphaël Nogier, Dr. Terry Oleson, Dr. Manfred Reininger, Dr. Nader Soliman, Dr. Beate Strittmatter, and many others.

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