Map of the Ear

There are a lot of different maps existing for auriculotherapy. The “somatotopic” map was proposed first by Nogier. According to this, the body is represented as the inverted the inverted foetus of the ear. The head is towards the ‘lower-lobule’, the feet at the topmost region of the auricle as well as the body that lies in the middle.

He further developed three “phase” diagrams that provided more information and also alternate sets of locations for stimulation. According to him, this was because the part or a region of the ear in question representing a particular organ varies according to the “phase” of the ailment.