Apparatus for acupressure treatment

• US 4,073,296 A
• Filed: 01/02/1976
• Issued: 02/14/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 01/02/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Francis J. Mccall
• Original Assignee: Francis J. Mccall
• Inventors: McCall, Francis J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Pace, Channing L.
• Application Number:
  US05/646,003
• Time in Patent Office: 774 Days
• Field of Search: 128/1 R, 128/303 R, 128/329, 128/329 A
• US Class Current: 606/204
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2205/027 Ears
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 39/04 Devices for pressing such points, e.g. Shiatsu or AcupressureMassage or pressure on general areas A61H9/00 - A61H23/00

Abstract

An acupressure treatment device including a custom made ear mold having precisely located acupuncture nodules fixed thereto for depressing points on the ear which control or act upon the known auricular acupuncture points.

Claims

1. An acupressure treatment device comprising:

a plastic mold conforming to a human external ear,

said mold adapted to be removably retained in said ear in a predetermined position, relative to acupuncture points located in the ear and influencing corresponding specific body functions to be treated; and

nodule means embedded in said plastic mold,

said nodule means not less than about one millimeter in diameter,

said nodule means positioned on said mold to depress at least one of said specific acupuncture points and thereby treat said corresponding body function, when said mold is retained in said predetermined position in said ear.

2. The apparatus as recited in claim 1 wherein said nodule means are spherical in shape.

3. The apparatus as recited in claim 1 wherein said mold includes a plurality of said nodule means positioned to depress selected of said acupuncture points.