What's ear candling .... ?!


Question: What's ear candling .... ?
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Some people wrongfully believe, that you can remove ear wax (and toxins) by sticking hollow (and burning) candles into your ears. The candles you can buy for the purpose of removing ear wax (with toxins) will accumulate something in the middle that looks deceptively like ear wax. But it is just candle wax.
Testing reveals that the amount of earwax in the ears is just the same as before. The two mechanisms that are suggested to be at play have both been shown not to happen in reality:
1) A suction effect caused by lowering the pressure in the ear canal does not appear
2) The temperature in the ear canal doesn't become high enough for the earwax to melt

In addition some have experienced deposition of candle wax in the ear canal afterwards.

Before deciding to try this out you are advised to read these sites:
http://altmed.creighton.edu/ear/experime…
http://whatstheharm.net/earcandling.html

If you decide to try it out anyway, you have the opportunity to test if the claims have any merit.

1) Try and light one of the candles over some dust you can find at home, and check if it gets sucked into the light.
2) Light one candle without sticking it into the ear, and another one in the ear as instructed. Afterwards cut both lights, and put a little bit of the ear wax resembling stuff in the middle on your finger, and briefly touch your tongue. Note if they both taste like candle wax or only one of them does.



Here is a link that provides all you need to know about ear candling:
http://www.earcandlesareillegal.net/



http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/iyh-vsv/med…



http://www.all-about-earcandling.com/ben…



Making candles from ear wax, maybe.




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