Objective To study the effect of auricular diagnosis for cervical spondylosis.-Methods The borderline patients were selected according to the symptoms.The lower 1/5 tuberosity of antihelix of auricle was observed and diagnosed with CR photographic examination.The self-made indices of symptoms

auricular diagnosis and CR examination were adopted.The evaluation criteria given by Practical Clinical Statistics were adopted for the trueness evaluation of diagnosis data.-Results Of the 50 borderline patients

38（76%） were positive in auricular diagnosis and 43（86%） positive in CR examination.Of the 43 cervical spondylosis patients and 7 non-cervical spondylosis patients

the auricular positiveness was 37:1 and the auricular negativeness 6:6.There were 37 patients diagnosed positive and 6 diagnosed negative in both auricular diagnosis and CR examination.The consistency check showed kappa=0.96

the sensitivity was 86.05%

the specificity 85.71%

the misdiagnosis rate 14.29%

the rate of missed diagnosis 13.95%

the diagnostic accordance rate 86%

the diagnostic index 0.7176

and the likelihood ratio 6.02.-Conclusion The auricular diagnosis was characteristically significant in diagnosis of cervical spondylosis.