PSYCHIATRY AND AURICULAR MEDICINE

There is a close link between both disciplines. Auricular medicine, through VAS, allows better psychiatric diagnosis and applying appropriate psychopharmaceutical treatment.

NEUROTRANSMITTER FILTERS

Aminergic neurotransmitter substances liberated in the nervous system act in transmission and processing of information are: serotonin (5HT), dopamine (DA) and noradrenaline (NA). These products are included in filters to be tested on the patient before prescribing treatment..

AURICULAR MEDICINE AND NEUROTRANSMISSION

In the book the author describes a method which is the result of two decades of clinical experience and has been checked with statistics.
When taking pulse and placing a neurotransmitter filter near the outer ear, normal patients produce several VAS reflexes. This phenomenon is found in all normal patients and indicates good nervous transmission.
On the other hand, when taking pulse and placing near the outer ear isolated neurotransmitter filters (5HT), (DA) and (NA), depressive patients fail to deliver VAS reflexes to one or several of these filters. This simple procedure shows which are the deficitary neurotransmitters in each pathology. They are identical and repeated phenomena, regarded as scientific proof.

ON BOARD PANEL

It consists of a filter panel, with crushed antidepressants selected according to their pharmaceutical dynamics, classified into serotoninergic, dopaminergic, and noradrenergic.

SPECIFIC ANTIDEPRESSIVE RESPONSE PREDICTION

For each depressive patient, it allows to know which timoleptic drug is most advisable: serotoninergic, dopaminergic, and/or noradrenergic, according to the deficit neurotransmitter type; previously determined through the VAS reflex procedure described in Auricular Medicine. It is effective in Resistant Depression to Treatment (DRT)

CHOSING THE APPROPRIATE TIMOLEPTIC DRUG FOR DEPRESSIVE PATIENT WITH FLUOXETINE

Left image. When placing the serotonin filter near the outer ear, the depressive patient fails to produce VAS: this indicates serotoninergic deficit. Right image. However, when fluoxetine (the appropriate serotonin antidepressant in this case) comes into contact with the patient's left hand, VAS are produced. (“Hidden VAS” due to fluoxetine filter cover). Result is checked (not shown). Fluoxetine is still pinned to patient's left hand and serotonin is again put near the outer ear. VAS persists as the patient is protected by the drug, which shows this timoleptic is effective for her. The procedure ends with identical results every time.

Auricular Medicine can be applied to any and all psychiatric illnesses; this subject is dealt in one of the chapters in the book.