Auricular acupressure is a medical system based on the stimulation of specific points on the external surface of the ear through magnets or vaccaria seeds for the diagnosis and treatment of pathological conditions developed in different areas of the body, even at a great distance from the ear. This practice places its foundation on a system of correspondences between the external ear and the entire organism.

The treatment can be performed with many different techniques. The most common uses vaccaria seeds or small magnets . Whatever the stimulus carried out, it travels towards an area of the diencephalon, a particular structure of the brain, corresponding to a point of the auricle but also to a specific body area at a distance. In a certain sense we can say that ear acupressure exploits a system of correspondences present in the body and stimulates healing by acting, through this mechanism, on the brain itself.