Nogier's Arterial Reflex

Raphaël Nogier, born in 1953, is a physician in Lyon, France, where he has practiced auriculotherapy exclusively since 1985. Author of several books on auriculotherapy and on nutrition, he has taught in twenty-five countries, mainly in Germany, Scandinavia, Italy, the USA, Algeria, South America, New Zealand and Japan. He has participated in several meetings organised by the World Health Organization for the standardization of the nomenclature and practice of auriculotherapy. He belongs to the French medical school for which semiology remains the irreplaceable framework of the art of diagnosis in medicine.Anthony de Sousa, born in 1943, is a physician in Geneva, Switzerland and has been practising auriculotherapy since 1983. He trained at the GLEM (Lyon Group for Medical Studies) from 1979 and collaborated with Paul Nogier in his research group in Lyon until 1996. He has been teaching RAC techniques for more than 30 years at the GLEM and at the AGMAR () (French Swiss Acupuncture Association) in Geneva and has also had the opportunity¬ to teach in Australia, New Zealand and Norway. He was an expert at the WHO meeting (World Health Organization) on auriculotherapy in 1990 in Lyon.

• Part 1: A new medical approachChapter 1 - Introduction and backgroundChapter 2 - The RAC, general considerationsChapter 3 - The neuro-vegetative system (autonomic system) Organ functionChapter 4 - Practical aspects of taking the RACChapter 5 - Physiological aspects of the RACChapter 6 - Experimental aspectsPart 2: Paul Nogier's progressionChapter 7 - Paul Nogier’s five main stages of research on the use of the RACChapter 8 - Use of colour filters Photoemission Photoreception Areas FrequenciesPart 3: Index of sympathetic reactivityChapter 9 - The white light testChapter 10 - The RAC exhaustion phenomenon: dental foci and pathological scarsPart 4: Overview of Paul Nogier’s classical techniquesChapter 11 – IntroductionChapter 12 - Instruments used for measurements with the pulse responseChapter 13 - Initial stages of examination in pulse assisted auriculotherapyChapter 14 - Detection of ear points with the RACChapter 15 - Analysis of the reactive quality of a pointChapter 16 - Pulse reactions to mechanical pressure applied to the skinChapter 17 - Transfers of information and ear bordersChapter 18 - Techniques using colour stimuliChapter 19 - Overview of the concept of phasesChapter 20 - Introduction to fundamental frequenciesChapter 21 - Areas of the ear and fundamental frequenciesChapter 22 - Other techniques based on fundamental frequenciesChapter 23 - Evaluation of a drug substanceChapter 24 - The RAC applied to smoking withdrawalPart 5: More recent techniquesChapter 25 - The photogramChapter 26 - Symmetry, laterality and tragus. The case of multiple sclerosisChapter 27 - Food hypersensitivities and the RACChapter 28 - Use of the RAC in miscellaneous pathologiesPart 6: RAC and Dental PracticeChapter 29 - The RAC applied to dentistry: A brief introduction to auriculo-dental practice