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Learn More. Reply Cancel. Jen 1 year, 9 months ago Interesting article! Ryan Jaslow 1 year, 8 months ago Hi Jen, thanks so much for reading the post and your comment. Derek Smedley 8 months, 3 weeks ago Tried the ear wax candles did absolutely nothing for me — put them in the bin.
Ryan Jaslow 8 months ago Hi Jean, thanks for reading. This is totally different from your ear canal which runs from the outside of your head to your ear drum. Just past the ear drum is the Eustachian, but no wax ever gets past rhe ear drum. Wax is a protector of the ear, it moves foreign objects back toward the opening of the canal, and is actually a bug repellant! Too cool huh? Sorry to have rambled on here, I hope some of thia helps. Thank you for commenting and sharing your expertise Nicole!
Also, thanks for clarifying about the Eustachian tube and eardrum. Could you explain then why i had a big lump of brown wax very long with perfectly round nobbles on the end in my candle, like a bunch of grapes. It looked like a tube. It could not have been out of my Eustachian tube then. First of all How would you get the urine from the cat? Second just thinking about using it would cure me instantly,third think about the poor kids this might have been used on.
Arguably, however, my favorite part of the post is the picture of Obi Wan Kenobi getting ear candeled. Best laugh all day! Thanks for this!
I have tried ear candles in the distant past with no particular lessening of ear wax in the outer ear. I later read various sources that debunked their use for that purpose. My GP suggested regularly letting warm water flow into each ear during showering. Now I never get any build up at all. When I was a teenager, my mom had me get this done. We went down to the health food store and the lady there did one ear. Absolutely no wax showed up in the candle. Next ear. Again, absolutely nothing.
They were so puzzled and astonished. My mom told me she thought the lady must not have known what she was doing. Perhaps so. But I just thought it was funny. Typical teenager…. Anyway, I have been wondering about this whole ear candle business ever since. I shall look into it more…. Great story Gracie! Friend's Email Address. Your Name. Your Email Address. This post may contain affiliate links. Comments I have used them with the kids for earaches and the kids do feel a lot better afterwards.
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Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Sign Up. See below for ground breaking research and discoveries. Historical reports of ear candling and the use of ear candles are prevalent in a wide and diverse variety of cultures, including Europe, India, Japan and the United States.
Ear candles have seen a resurgence in popularity within the last 10 years. The reality is that Ear candles are an incredible holistic wellness modality. The purpose of this research is to discover the originations of ear candles, to establish standards of safety for ear candles, and to reveal how ear candles TRULY work.
Regrettably, to date, there have been few scientific studies to validate these remarkable energic shifts in the human body, although we are preparing to conduct some studies to prove the efficacy of this holistic modality. The resulting true effects of holistic ear candling have been documented by a few manufacturers and some practitioners of alternative wellness therapies. It is uniformly agreed, that various unbalanced health symptoms usually dissipate within a day or two after a holistic ear candling session.
This is also involved with establishing safety and quality standards for all ear candling manufacturers, and has, for the first time ever, explained the mystery of ear candles — how does it work, and what information is true, and what data is false. In the process of our investigation, many myths, tales, and fraud were discovered, exposed, and rejected while we identify and promote the truth.
This study was designed to authenticate the historical usage of ear candles, to address the quality of ear candle manufacturing, to ensure its relationship to their perceived functionality, and to provide realistic and substantial evidence in support of its efficacy. Historically, the press in major media forums has held a biased support of the politically- backed allopathic medical monopoly. However, within the last five years the press has begun to acknowledge the inadequacies of allopathic medicine by exposing these shortcomings and by reporting in support of holistic or natural options.
The natural health care industry, ethnic and spiritual groups, in general, support ear candling. The allopathic medical establishment is opposed to ear candles and their usage.
Even though ear candling has been utilized both currently and historically for natural, physical, emotional, and spiritual cleansing, the history of ear candling has been unknown and is only supported by oral traditions within the natural and holistic health industry and testimonials obtained by manufacturers and consumers of ear candles throughout the years.
The internal and external controversy surrounding holistic ear candling and the natural health industry in general, is also faced with an overwhelming majority of manufactures that produce and sell dangerous ear candles and produce false information on Ear Candle uses, applications, and effects.
It is apparent that standards need to be established for the protection of the consumer and for the proper manufacturing of this holistic and natural product. The safety of ear candling must be the number one priority of any manufacturer, practitioner, retailer, and end user or consumer. There are specific manufacturers engaged in poor candle manufacturing or who have fostered unscrupulous claims.
These few fraudulent ear candle manufacturers have created an atmosphere for slanted or misdirected scrutiny. This, along with a few adverse events reported due to sub-standard ear candle production, allows the FDA to tarnish the reputation of holistic ear candling, in general, by giving false information to the press and by creating a general sense of public opposition to ear candling.
Although holistic ear candling is utilized to aid the human body and mind to return to a balanced homeostatic state, inferior products and false information have led the general public to believe that ear candles are simply an ear wax remover, or used for other misbranded issues. The majority of people who use ear candles are taught or told that ear candling is a simple, noninvasive, inexpensive method to remove earwax and debris from the ears. This is blatantly false. The general public also thinks that ear candling works when the spiraling effect of the smoke and heat from the flame forms a gentle vacuum that draws ear debris up into the candle.
This too, is false. Layne, , p. Another widely held misconception is the belief that ear candling removes Candida [such as Candida albicans, which can cause infections called candidiasis or thrush in humans ] from the ears. It is also believed to be an infection that breeds in the head because it is close to the blood supply, providing the yeast infection with a source of food.
Maccaro, , p. Within the medical community, there are medical experiments and tests that easily dispel the false information that a holistic ear candle has the ability to extract anything from the ear. It does not. These controversies often arise as a result of end users finding foreign objects in the ear candle after application and use. Therefore, it would be imperative to consider the quality of ear candles on the market in order to understand the results gained from proper ear candle applications.
Webb, personal communication, May 26, This study seeks to identify, expose, and confirm the ideology surrounding ear candles and to help establish this modality of healing as an acceptable holistic alternative.
More significantly, though, this study is also a prelude to establish guidelines of safety and education for the manufacturers of ear candles and the general public, while instilling a sense of consumer trust. Holistic ear candling has helped the body to encourage emotional and spiritual healing amongst the thousands of ear candle users S. Yemm, G. Webb, K. Boulton, P.
Quanten, personal communication, March 10, Therefore, to suggest the use of ear candles as simply an ear wax remover is both demeaning to the healing arts, and is a false scientific fact which causes the product to be misbranded.
Within the a few applications, holistic ear candling works to help the body move into a very harmonious state of functioning. This was commonly achieved by the sixth session. As a result people were more emotionally balanced; felt more capable, relaxed, less threatened, and seemed more hopeful. Webb p. This is true of aroma therapy, massage techniques, meditation, and other catalysts used for natural health. Ear candling is a home based remedy with long-term wellness resolutions that, if clinically researched, could dramatically affect the way people heal themselves of many common, and sometimes not so common, ailments or imbalances, especially when we acknowledge emotional or psychological stress as a major cause for health imbalance and its causing adverse physiological changes.
It was used in conjunction with other wellness practices and assumed a co-creative position with these practices. Traditionally, conings were performed by master energetic healers who worked on the physical as well as intermediate planes.
Bucci, E. Channelings on Ear Candling. Even with the advent of the comprehension in the realm of quantum physics, channeling is still not an acceptable form of scientific proof nor does it lend validity to any medical or scientific inquiry, including ear candles. Data surrounding the origins of ear candling are an overwhelming challenge within the ear candling community. Another recurring issue besieging the ear candle community lies in its manufacturing and handcrafting process. Since the introduction of ear candling in the United States, it has been generally regarded that ear candles are used as an ear wax removal device.
This false statement has led to the widespread belief that ear candles heal ear infections and ear problems by removing the wax in which various bacteria and parasites live Relfe, This deception is also exhibited with the use of inappropriate raw materials that some manufacturers use to create ear candles.
As the ear candles burn down, they leave behind a very fine non-injurious residue that has been misconstrued as ear wax, bacteria, fungus, Candida, and other debris. Poorly selected raw materials has occasionally caused some consumer ear damage, both externally and internally resulting in adverse reports.
Most ear candles creators use a heavily laden beeswax, soy wax, or paraffin wax, due to their ignorance of the complexity of the burn, viscosity, and combustion rates in conjunction with their desire for cheap raw materials. The public at large continues to falsely believe that ear candles pulls wax from the ears and hence this removal is what heals their ailment.
The medical community has conducted some studies and the ones that they have conducted show that there is no human debris within the ear candles or that there is not enough of a vacuum to lift even a grain of salt. He did so by comparing and analyzing a new, unburned pair of candles and the remains of four pairs of candles which had been burnt within one hour of each other.
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