Forever Needle by Dr. Werth: ear points, history and case reports
The Forever Needle — also called permanent ear acupuncture — is a single treatment of the auricle: tiny titanium micro-implants stay under the skin and are meant to reach specific brain and body zones via corresponding ear points. It was developed by Dr. med. Ulrich Werth, specialist in neurology and psychiatry. By his own account he has treated more than 6,000 people with Parkinson’s from every continent.
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History of the method
Ulrich Werth was born in 1948 in Burg near Magdeburg, studied medicine in Rostock and researched short-term memory in neurobiology. Specialist training in neurology and psychiatry ran through Magdeburg, Haldensleben and the Charité; recognition as a specialist came in 1990. In the 1990s in Magdeburg he worked with classical acupuncture — at times up to a hundred sessions a day.
In 2001 he found implant point combinations for Parkinson’s and presented them in June at the acupuncture world congress in Berlin and in October in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. From 2014 he added combinations for Alzheimer’s — memory, language, orientation. After his death in 2025 the work continues with his long-time life and practice partner. Module 2 of the audio course tells this path.
The approach: specific zones via ear points
On Paul Nogier’s map the body stands inverted on the auricle. Organs and brain regions have fixed corresponding points. Werth places tiny titanium tips — about 1.2 millimetres — usually in both ears, often 100 to 150 needles in one sitting. The main symptom is not the only target: accompanying complaints and the whole person are included.
The implants stay in place. In his explanation they act like small antennas: they take up ambient energy and carry information along fine pathways to the affected regions. The aim is regeneration — to supply dopamine cells and networks again instead of only replacing the deficit with drugs. In Parkinson’s he describes first an immediate dopamine release at remaining cells, then resynthesis and transport, then longer-term rebuilding. Medication is therefore often reduced step by step as the body’s own dopamine returns — otherwise over-movements can appear.
What treated people and studies report
Many describe a wave-like course over months: first looseness, strength, voice, facial expression and gesture; tremor — often the first symptom — frequently last. Functions, they say, often return in the reverse order of their loss. One patient coined “regenerative Parkinson’s” for this.
The Bad Nauheim / Gießen pilot showed falling UPDRS scores within three months; later checks speak of an active everyday life. The 2009 Tübingen health-economics paper calculated less medication and high savings per patient. DaTSCAN images — for example Ingrid Kaiser and Enrico Schulz — show in Werth’s account a normalisation of dopamine metabolism in the striatum; Kaiser reports fourteen years with the needles, Schulz works again as a boxing coach.
Voices in the course include Reinhard Egert, PD Dr. habil. Andreas Schwarzkopf (“Out of the Parkinson trap with the Forever Needles”), Brunhilde at 85 (frontotemporal dementia and symptomatic Parkinson’s, with her daughter), and Iris Görke with Dr. Werth. In Alzheimer’s, Peter Kaess is an early documented case: 24 hours after the session he spoke of the illness in the past tense; a year later he was preparing a Spanish B2 exam.
What the audio course adds
Four modules, about 50–55 minutes, two voices: standard therapy as the starting point; Werth, discovery and principle; Parkinson’s with course, studies, DaTSCAN and interviews; Alzheimer’s from 2014, cases and practice. Videos and sources are named in the course (including forever-needle.com and the foreverneedle channel).
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