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Modern China
While classical acupuncture was first developed in China, its use diminished in the 1800's when China was dominated by Western powers from Europe. Then with the cultural revolution of Mao Sae Tong, the Chinese with the inverted fetus concept rediscovered and identified auricular acupuncture as a potent diagnostic and therapeutic weapon. Dr. Chen Gong-Sun of Nanking Medical University confirmed the great changes in the practice of ear acupuncture that occured in China in the 1995 international symposium and credited Dr. Nogier with systematizing ear acupuncture as a somatatopic pattern of the inverted fetus for auriculotherapy.
More recent Chinese discoveries focused on ear acupuncture and diagnosis as a guide for recommending Chinese herbal remedies. Auricular points are selected according to: (1) corresponding body regions where there is pain or pathology according to the (2) pathological reactive points tender to touch, according to (3) the principles of traditional Chinese medicine, (4) the meridian theory, (5) according to physiological understanding derived from modern western medicine, and according to the (6) known therapeutic effects of a point in addition to the results of experiments in clinical observations of the practitioners. The world health organization and the Chinese government defined a localization of 91 specific auricular points by 1995.
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