Auricular therapy was described by the Chinese over 4,000 years ago.¹ However, it wasn't until the 1950s that Dr. Paul Nogier, Lyons, France,² and later, the Chinese Nanking Army Ear Acupuncture Research Team,³ published somatotopic maps, or charts of the ear. This allowed specific points on the ear to be correlated with various structures and/or functions of the body which were based on actual experimental research rather than theory.