Auriculotherapy is a therapeutic intervention in which the auricle of the external ear is utilized to alleviate pain, dysfunction and disease as represented and manifest throughout the body.

The auricle of the ear is a complete Microsystem of the human body. All vertebra, sympathetic/parasympathetic nerves, spinal nerves, visceral organs and the central nervous system, and including all anatomical sites and many functional points are represented on the ear. They total over 200 specific acupuncture points.

While originally based upon the ancient Chinese practice of acupuncture, the somatic tropic correspondence of specific parts of the body to specific parts of the ear was first developed in France by Dr. Paul Nogier.