🇫🇷 France · Modern
Ear Reflexology (Auriculotherapy)耳のリフレクソロジー(耳介療法)
Systematised in the 1950s by French physician Paul Nogier: a map of the body on the outer ear whose points are stimulated; Chinese medicine has its own ear-point tradition.
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- Origin
- 🇫🇷 France · 🇨🇳 China
- Era
- Modern
- Classification
- Related therapy
- Techniques
- Pressure
- Practitioner body parts
- Finger / Tool
- Medium
- None
- Clothing
- Clothed
- Setting
- Table
- Also known as
- Auricular therapy · Auriculotherapy
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