The ear is composed of three parts: the external ear, the middle ear, and the internal ear. The external ear includes the external auditory canal and the auricle. There are four prominences, three depressions, four notches, and one ear lobe on the anterior surface of the auricle. Thus studies have found just by applying pressure and various particular points of the ear we can cure various diseases and problems. The basic theory of ear acupuncture is that certain points in the ear have an effect on other organs, body parts or functions. Ear acupuncture is a treatment involving stimulation of these points to prevent and treat illness and relieve pain. {Ear Acupuncture by Churchill Livingstone} Ear acupuncture is a variation of body acupuncture and forms a small, independent part of the greater science. The principles of ear acupuncture treatment are different from those of body acupuncture. Ear acupuncture can be used in combination with body acupuncture, or as a separate treatment. Acupuncture literally means ‘to prick with needles’. The method has been used for thousands of years in Asia. Along with pulse and tongue diagnosis (see Ch. 2, A brief look at traditional Chinese medicine), characteristic of Chinese medicine, Chinese doctors also treated conditions such as high temperature and pain by massaging the ear, by burning points in it or by controlled bleeding using needles. To this day, such methods remain part of Chinese folk medicine. The basic idea of modern ear acupuncture is that every part of the body has a corresponding reflex point in the ear, which can be used both for diagnosis and treatment. If something is out of balance in the body, this will be reflected in the particular part of the ear. The reflex point can be sore or change colour. If exactly that point in the ear is treated, the corresponding part of the body reacts in a positive fashion. Many describe a connection between energy channels and the ear and claim that different illnesses may be treated by sticking a needle in the ear, making a point in the ear bleed or by creating a little burn sore at the point. Although ear acupuncture was used in China, the method did not develop into any separate technique or as a special form of therapy as it was to do in Europe. Ear acupuncture was an integrated part of traditional Chinese medicine, an aid to diagnosis and one of several methods of treatment. India, like China, has a medical system which is several thousand years old. Both Indian and Chinese medicine are holistic, which is to say they are built on a complete way of seeing things. Indian medicine is called Ayur Veda. Some of the Diseases that can be cured using Auricular Acupuncture Common Cold, Malaria. Hepatitis, Bacillary Dysentery/Dysentery, Epidemic Parotitis/Mumps, Bronchial Asthma/Wheezing and Panting, Whooping Cough, Tuberculosis, etc.