Synthetic and progressive cartography
Introductory page
Synthetic and progressive cartography of the acupuncture points on the ear aims to bring together the existing nomenclatures for each point and the corresponding bibliographies. The website can be viewed on your tablet.
The aim of (…)

The Aims of the Site
The site has been designed to present the different naming systems being used in auriculotherapy. The aim is to make the existing data available to practitioners and specifically to enable them to find their way through the maze of published articles. It is a personal (…)

Our choices
In the absence of any international consensus, we wanted to give practitioners the chance to find the references for the points and help them find their way around the international literature. The grid used is that presented by Bahr/Wojak, but we have added some of Nogier’s points (…)

WHO Points (OMS in French, standing for Organisation Mondiale de la Santé) For the World Health Organisation points, the official report suggests that AM (MA in French) should be added in front of the consensual locations. It stands for auricular microsystem (microsystème auriculaire). Although (…)