Ear Candles: Cones of Silence?
Lots of wax in your ears? Try ear candles. That’s right. You can make candles from grandpa’s ear wax. Pretty soon, that grandpa will be you, if it isn’t you already.
All joking aside; ear candling is a gentle and soothing way to remove even the most stubborn of wax build-ups from your precious ears. If I just said “your ears,” people would be making “your rears” jokes. We won’t go there.
I guess we just did.
Contrary to any fear-mongerers stories that you might have been told about setting yourself on fire using these babies, ear candles are as safe as their handler. So don’t let some poor soul with Parkinson’s give you a hand in this matter. Ear candling how to takes a steady hand.
Ear candles are constructed out of wonderously-smelling bees wax and a type of linen or cotton. At least the ones that I use are, and they work like a charm. They might actually be charmed, now that I think about it. I get them from The Hedge Witch, a new agey kind of store in my local village.
A very good friend of mine from the Cobourg area also makes amazing ear candles.They are long, slim, hollow tapers made out of the aforementioned bees wax and cloth. When it comes to ear candles, size definitely matters.
Nay sayers to ear candling contend that the wax that appears in the taper is simply the candle wax, and I am sure that this can be true. If the candles are not made properly, using paraffin-free bees wax, and only a certain amount, I am sure there can be trouble. But my life partner’s grandmother has had stubborn wax build-up for years and finds great relief from the ear candling sessions that have been provided for her. I have seen the wax, and it isn’t from any bee. She has difficulty hearing, at the grand old age of 92, but her hearing always improves after her ear candling sessions. And she is a great skeptic of all things weird.
Health Canada reports that one person, to their knowledge, has been burned by hot candle wax falling in the ear canal, causing permanent damage. Others have had their ear canals blocked by candle wax falling in the ear. Again, people; these ear candles were not constructed properly. I have never seen that happen in my life, and I have been around ear candlers, and used ear candles on others myself, for many years.
A close friend of mine makes excellent ear candles that are in in high demand. She also states emphatically that the candles have not been constructed properly if this is happening. She has had twenty years of successfully ear candling people with heavy wax build-up, who find relief from ear candling. It must work for some people, or they would still be complaining of partial deafness. My very skeptical brother included.
My empirical evidence is that the wax drawn gently from the ear, (and you can feel the draw, it is not fictitious as the nay-sayers claim), is not at all the same colour as the bees wax bubbled up inside the cone by the heat.
Ear Candling How To:
To use ear candles, or ear cones, as they are otherwise known, simply lie down on your side with one of your ears facing skyward. Your experienced ear candler will place the tapered end of the ear candle at the opening of your ear canal, gently,– without going into your brain.i.e. not too far.
They will light the end furthest from your head.
If they don’t, they hate you.
The wax from your ear will soften from the gentle heat and travel up the inside of the ear candle. You will experience a gentle drawing feeling if it is working properly. The ear candles do get clogged with the wax periodically, and you will no longer feel a drawing sensation. Simply stop at this point and have your partner remove the wax build-up from the taper, and relight the candle and continue with this procedure until no more wax is coming out of your ear.
Some people need to be ear candled more than once before all of the wax is out of the ear canal. Others don’t need a full taper.
The ear candling practitioner will repeat the procedure for the other ear.
Some people say to keep your ears covered for a day after this procedure, if going outside. Ear wax takes up to 24 hours to return to a normal, protective amount in the ear.
Let’s try some experimenting of our own. If the waxy matter at the bottom of the ear cone or candle is indeed simply melted candle wax, then placing the candle over any orifice would result in the same effect being observed.
No, I am not going to shove a lit ear candle up my ass or my left nostril.
Perhaps my right nostril.
Perhaps someone else’s ass.
Let me think.
“Fluffy! Come to mama!”
Just kidding.
“Fido, come here.”
Actually, take a dummy head and stick the ear candle at the opening of the fake ear canal. If the claims of the scientific community are valid, and there is no drawing of fluids out of the ear, then the same wax residual should be in evidence without an actual ear to draw on, now shouldn’t it?
Yes it should.
I will experiment and post my results, with pictures here. Ear candling how to on a dummy.
No, not me, but thanks.
p.s. If you are wondering about the suddenly strange interjections of Ear Candling How To sporadically throughout the post, that is a search engine term which is supposed to send more traffic to my website. Sorry for the clumsiness of the phrase, but if that’s what it takes to get you wonderful people to come an visit, I am going to do it. Otherwise, I will be talking to myself, and reading my own blogs.
Alone.
I don’t like alone very much.
Only sometimes.
So please put up with the odd weird phraseology.
Thanks!
Pat.
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