Alimi David, Chelly Jacques E
1 Department of Anesthesiology, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, PA.
2 Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, PA.
J Altern Complement Med. 2018 Jan;24(1):7-14. doi: 10.1089/acm.2016.0351. Epub 2017 Aug 23.
To propose at the auriculotherapists a New Universal Nomenclature of Auriculotherapy, able to receive any mapping whatsoever.
We built this proposition by using electronic database search to find the different formulations of Auricular Acupuncture Points (AAPs), by studying neuroradiology methods describing reliable and reproducible marks able to adapt to all brain morphologies, by studying the analysis of brain dissections, showed us the internal organization of the brain; and after having proved the neurophysiological correlations between auricular displays and their brain correspondences.
Since the 1950s, the study of Auriculotherapy by Paul Nogier and his students regularly progressed. The World Health Organization recognized it in 1987 and developed the First International Nomenclature in 1990. The number of therapeutic zones of the ear, in proportion to the constant progress in neurophysiology, never stops growing. This growth presents a major problem: all the first classifications became inappropriate and unfit. We propose a Universal Nomenclature of Auriculotherapy which is a biomathematical model of the brain anatomic organization, with 189 areas on the lateral ear and 89 areas on the medial ear.
The Universal Auriculotherapy Nomenclature we proposed to the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies and which approved it at its International Convention in September 2011 in London, gives accurate Cartesian Marks and is able to receive any mapping whatsoever. Dispatching around 57 countries (Europe, America, China, Russia and Africa) and 195 Acupuncture Societies, it will facilitate the work of auriculotherapists and allow a scientific progress of the subject worldwide. This progress will allow the largest number of people to have a common tool for education, research, and publications of the discipline.
向耳针治疗师提出一种耳针疗法的新通用命名法，使其能够接受任何形式的图谱。
我们通过电子数据库搜索来找出耳穴的不同表述方式，研究描述能适应所有脑形态的可靠且可重复标记的神经放射学方法，研究脑解剖分析（其向我们展示了脑的内部结构），并在证明耳穴显示与其脑对应部位之间的神经生理相关性之后，构建了这一命名法。
自20世纪50年代以来，保罗·诺吉尔及其学生对耳针疗法的研究不断取得进展。世界卫生组织于1987年认可了该疗法，并于1990年制定了首个国际命名法。随着神经生理学的不断进步，耳部治疗区域的数量持续增加。这种增长带来了一个主要问题：所有最初的分类都变得不合适且不适用了。我们提出了一种耳针疗法通用命名法，它是脑解剖结构的生物数学模型，外侧耳有189个区域，内侧耳有89个区域。
我们向世界中医药学会联合会提议并于2011年9月在伦敦举行的国际大会上获得批准的耳针疗法通用命名法，给出了精确的笛卡尔坐标标记，能够接受任何形式的图谱。它在约57个国家（欧洲、美洲、中国、俄罗斯和非洲）以及195个针灸学会中传播，将便利耳针治疗师的工作，并推动该学科在全球范围内取得科学进步。这一进步将使尽可能多的人拥有用于该学科教育、研究和出版的通用工具。
