Clinical evidence for ear acupuncture maps?

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Hi -

 

I hope this is an appropriate question for this forum. I'm a student of TCM

currently studying auricular theory. There seem to be quite a few claims of

clinically verified trials that demonstrate the validity of the accepted maps

used for ear acupuncture. However, when I look deeper into the subject, I find

that most of the evidence is based on the work of one or two researchers, and

has not been replicated. I have also found clinical trials that counter the

accepted versions of the ear maps:

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17906600?ordinalpos=2 & itool=EntrezSystem2.PEn\

trez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18068545?ordinalpos=18 & itool=EntrezSystem2.PE\

ntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

 

 

Maybe I'm just not looking in the right places. Does anyone know of other

clinical trials that demonstrate the validity of the accepted maps? Or if this

request is not appropriate to this forum, could you please direct me to a forum,

mailing list, BBS, etc where this line of questioning is more appropriate? Your

help is greatly appreciated.

 

Regards,

Daniel