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CHAPTER 2 - ACUPUNCTURE FOR PTSD Acupuncturists Without Borders - Carla Cassler, DAOM, L.Ac. (VP)
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Acupuncture is obviously a very old therapy but it is relatively new in western culture. If you look at its history in relation of how it came to the West, it's kind of interesting. Chinese medicine and Acupuncture dates back between 4,000-5,000 years. Dr. Paul Nogier is the 'father' of scientifically researched acupuncture and modern Auricular Acupuncture is based on work by Dr. Paul Nogier of France in the 1960s. Battlefield Acupuncture is an Auricular Acupuncture protocol invented by Dr. Richard Niemtzow, MD, consisting of treating the patient by placing five needles at five specific points on each ear.
It didn't come to the West as a pain treatment, it was more of a treatment that came through Canada into the United States and it was first used relatively officially as a treatment for drug addiction...and primarily for opiate and heroin addictions as a replacement for Methadone treatment. It is kind of interesting because now we have more of an opioid crisis now and that's how Auricular Acupuncture came into the United States. It was more fully developed at Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx where they had a big detoxification program. That is where the National Association of Detoxification Acupuncture (NADA) Program, which is what we use for our work, was developed. NADA, as an ear acupuncture treatment, was developed as a drug treatment initially and we refer to it as the NADA 5-Needle Protocol (or 5-NP).
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