The 5-point ear acupuncture with gold balls is a valuable nonverbal supplement in our practice. It can help gently regulate your nervous system, relieve internal restlessness and strengthen your mental stability.

Maybe you know that. An inner unrest that builds up quietly over weeks or months. You feel tense, can turn off badly in the evening, find no more restful sleep at night. Especially in severe crises, deep grief or big new beginnings, your nervous system needs sensitive support. Not another stimulus that stimulates you, but an impulse that can gently regulate you and restore your inner balance.

It has its roots in the NADA protocol, which was developed in the 1970s in New York by Dr. Michael Smith and is still used worldwide in stressful phases of life, in deep exhaustion or in mental states of emergency. In practice at Marienplatz we apply this further development of the concept, with golden balls instead of needles, adapted to a quiet individual setting.

How does 5-point ear acupuncture work?

After the 5-point scheme, certain points on your ear are stimulated. The main goal is to shut down an overactive sympathetic, the nerve cord responsible for your physical stress response. Treatment can help you find your way back from hyperactive paralysis or shock rigidity to a state of rest and regain your ability to act.

Each of the five points has its own significance in Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Shen Men
Considered the gate of the gods. It can calm the emotional fire and promote deep inner peace and balance.

Sympathy
As a root point, regulates the autonomic nervous system directly and literally puts you back on solid ground.

Rivet
Can appease deep existential fears and strengthen your inner strength and stress resistance.

Liver
Provides a harmonious flow of your emotions and helps you deal with internal pressure, anger or frustration.

Lung
Relaxes the chest, facilitates breathing and supports emotional release. Therefore, this point is also closely connected with grief processing.

Why We Use Gold Balls Instead of Needles

In our practice, we combine the proven topography of the five ear points with the gentle tradition of Japanese golden balls. Instead of fine acupuncture needles, gold-plated acupressure balls are used, which are painlessly glued to the ear points.

Especially in times of grief, deep exhaustion or high mental stress, your nervous system often reacts highly sensitive. The golden balls provide a particularly sensitive impulse here. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, gold is considered to be uplifting, strengthening and nourishing. The small beads remain on the ear for a few days. So they give you, without needle prick or skin irritation, continuous support and relief in everyday life. A gentle, protective accompaniment that can help your body regain its center.

In our practice, we adapt this concept to a relaxed individual setting. The ear pellets are glued to one side of the ear and remain on the ear for a few days before pause for a few days. In the following week we treat the other ear. The treatment takes place in a thirty-minute rest period, sitting or lying down. This is an independent application based on the NADA scheme.

When is ear acupuncture helpful

The method has proven itself as a valuable accompaniment in crisis or emotionally demanding phases of life. We use them in practice mainly on the following topics.

• Continuous stress, overload and threatening burnout
• Internal unrest, nervousness and psychosomatic complaints
• Insomnia and sleep disturbances
• Psychic strains such as fears, anxiousness or depressive moods
• Acute crises, grief, trauma and shock states, for example also in the relatives of seriously ill people
• Support for smoking or to mitigate addictive pressure

Ear acupressure with golden balls is usually well tolerated. It is a gentle, gradual support that often unfolds its power over several sessions. For sustainable stabilization in chronic stress, a cycle of five to ten treatments has proven successful.