Ear Candling
What is Ear Candling?
Ear candling is a safe, simple home remedy for gently removing excess wax and toxins from inside the ears and Eustachian tubes. Long, tapered candles are inserted into the ears and lit. The waxy, tacky smoke generated by the beeswax candles spirals down into the Eustachian tube and then returns the toxins which adhere back to the candle. The entire process is relaxing and noninvasive.
What Are The Candles Made Of?
The candles are made of strips of unbleached cotton dipped in a mixture of beeswax infused with rose oil. They look much like cotton candy cones. Though there are a large variety of candles, sizes and styles, Our candles tend to run 10 to 12 inches in length; when you burn a candle, for safety purposes, it is wise not to burn the last 3 to 4 inches. This protects the sensitivity of the ear. We prefer to use beeswax candles.
Although we offer herbal candles when available such as the rose oil candle. The Rose Oil becomes a part of the smoke that goes into the sinus and nasal cavities and soothes them. The human body has the potential of vibrating at 200,000 cycles per second. The average persons frequency is about 20,000 cycles or one tenth of what is possible.
What is the History of Ear Candling?
The art of ear candling also know as coning in the earlier years. Ear candling dates back for centuries, to the ancient Egyptian, Chinese, Tibetan, Aztec, Mayan and American Indian cultures. Cherokee, Mexican Indian and European healers interested in reviving the lost traditions still practice coning. It is a common practice of the Amish and German medical students are taught coning as a part of their medical practice.
There have been some interesting stories about ear cleaning which have included the Turkish bringing coning/candling to the middle east, and beautiful girls cleaning ears in Thai barbershops. The culture of India gives its own special brand of ear care with men who publicly walk the streets offering to clean your ears with long instruments carried in their hats which they will whip out and use to clean your ears for a penny (they produce some amazing results). Also the Egyptians had a form of coning/candling and worked with frequency medicine.
Ear cleaning has been practiced for at least five thousand years by many cultures and is considered as necessary a part of personal hygiene as is tooth and gum brushing.
How Does The Process Work?
Let it be known we are cleaning the Eustachian tubes. As the beeswax candle/cone burns, the burnt beeswax forms a slightly tacky powdery smoke. As you look into the top of the burning candle/cone, you can see the smoke spirals down in the cone. As the smoke is pushed into the tube, the sticky particles adhere to toxins and incoming smoke causes them to return to the candle/cone to be collected, as the blocked tube is in itself a closed channel. This is why paraffin candles/cones (which are oil based and mildly carcinogenic), lack significant effectiveness - they do not smoke. The heat from the paraffin candles/cones does however stimulate the acupressure points, which is a good thing.
The Eustachian tube is one of the drains of the lymphatic which has the daily job of cleaning your blood. It releases the toxins it accumulates through the surface of the skin, the elimination tract and through the Eustachian tubes. These tubes are quite small and eventually become blocked, due to the large amounts of inorganic substances which our bodies incur. Examples would be: prescription drugs, chemicals in our foods, plastics etc. and toxic substances in our water and air.
Most people assume that when their ears feel blocked or stuffy, it is an ear wax problem and about 1 in 20 times, this is true. Candling/coning can remove ear wax, and it co-mingles with the candle/cone wax. You'll notice that the mingled wax tends to be darker. Wax is usually not the problem though and replaces itself within 24 hours. What tends to give people the most problem, is Eustachian ash or the residue from the lymphatic system which frequently blocks the tubes. The ash, which when removed from the candles/cones can range from light ivory color to orange swirls with bits that look like brown crystals or small brown broken bits of beer bottle glass. However, the brown crystals are the most toxic and are actually irritating the inside of the Eustachian tube. People with this condition tend to experience tension in their neck and shoulders and sometimes in their jaws. When these crystals and toxic powder are released, relaxation and sinus relief is the result. As the body is allergic to many toxins found in the tube, sinus problems frequently are resolved as sinus congestion can be a reaction to the toxins. Found in the ear, inside and the back, are all the acupressure points for the entire body. When the cone burns, the heat from the candle/cone stimulates the points in the ear, thus stimulating body organs. Although some clients have experienced the feeling under the surface of the skin have said, they could feel the process in their stomachs or legs or liver, etc.
What Can I Expect During and After the Session?
If you have excessive hearing loss, you might be more aware of the candle heat than an average hearing person as your feeling senses are more developed than a regular hearing person. Since we leave 3 to 4 inches of candle left unburned, you have nothing to fear from the heat or flame. Most people are aware of some crackling and popping as the candle is burned and the ear wax is being pulled out. Relax and enjoy the soothing influence of the experience.
After the session you may feel lightness in your head and noises may appear to be louder. While you adjust to your new level of hearing, you might want to put some organic cotton in your ears with a little ear oil or olive oil to soothe the ear canal.
If you feel itching in the ears, you might want to use some virgin olive oil or some hydrogen peroxide for a day or two after the session. The itching will stop.
You might find your sinuses are draining and sinus headaches may decrease. This decrease occurs as the sinus cavities are soothed and plates of the skull return to a natural position. Sinus headaches are often caused by a misalignment of the cranial bones. These cranial plates can become misaligned for a variety of reasons including: birth trauma, colds, sinusitis and toxins in the environment as well as allergic reactions to the foods, clothing we wear, and paraphernalia such as (cell phones, head sets, iPods).
This is aided by the heat stimulating the acupressure points in your ears. Many people experience an improvement in hearing and a wider perception of tones. However, if you have a hearing loss due to bone loss or nerve damage, you may notice no improvement in your hearing though you may notice an improvement in some other area.
What Will Come Out Of My Eustachian Tubes?
Most people think that all they have in their ears is ear wax. However, most difficulties are due to substances other than wax. If you have a history of prescription drugs and/or poor diet, you will have large amounts of a powdery substance emerge; it is called Eustachian ash. Depending on what you do for a living you will have different debris come out of your ears. Therefore if you are a plasterer, bits of plaster and or dust, a landscaper may have dirt or even bugs. What comes out of your ears is determined by your external and internal environment.
Once the candle is burned I will cut off the burnt end and unravel the remaining candle and show you what is in the candle. You will notice that the candle has powder and wax in it. The powder is similar in color to the powder in a healthy ear. The more toxic ear powder is orange or a brownish color, frequently with crystals. Because of their high toxicity, the orange powder and crystals must be disposed of safely. The more toxic a person is, the more orange the powder. People suffering from Candida frequently exhibit this orange powder with dark swirls in it.
How Frequently Should I Have Candling Done?
For health, it is suggest 3 candling/coning visits, in a 3 to 7 days time frame. This is a start process and only required to help you feel complete. Once you have established a healthy relationship with your ears, it is appropriate to have your ears candled 2 or 3 times a year. The Egyptians coned/candled 11 times in a row, not more than a week apart to hear God. It all depends upon what you're after. After the tubes are open, you will know, for you can feel smoke at your collar bone. Therefore, it is recommended that you candle as frequently as you have your teeth cleaned.
How Will Candling Affect Me?
As stated, previously you may feel stoned (a pleasant version). Candling starts a cleansing process which might have a variety of results. Some known benefits of coning include: the removal of ear debris from nerve endings; the detoxification of the sinus and lymph system; and the sharpening of mental functions, vision, hearing, smell, taste and color perception. Interesting things have occurred while clients have had their ears candled/coned. Some have forgotten to put their hearing aids back in. Others have had emotional releases as the toxins left their bodies. Some people have had an improvement in their sinus conditions and some have felt generally more vibrant. Other clients have reported of color perception becoming brighter and being more telepathic, reports of hearing distinctions in sound and tone that were not available to them before. People have said on occasion that they are able to listen to conversations with more ease and perception. Although, some are simply not aware of the changes and yet if there is vast amounts of powder that are removed from the ears there is some changes that they just haven realized.
How Did I Get Involved in Ear Candling?
I got into ear candling/coning by a fellow nail technician student. She offered it as a service at her spa, during the conversation she invited me to her spa to try it. I was hooked it was so relaxing and I felt immediate relief. I knew I needed to be able to offer this to my clients. So I took the four hour training which included doing candling on three others. I was really surprised at the difference, such as not have to turn the volume up on my stereo and television and it sounded clearer after I had it done. Then when you think of the toxins in your body it only makes sense that toxins would enter the body through our nose, mouth and ears. Now I can offer you ear candling to help you rid them from your body. Most people believe that their bowels and urinary tract are the sole avenues of elimination; the truth is, 70 percent of body toxins exit through the skin. Additional toxins are removed through the lymphatic system, some of which empty into the Eustachian tubes. Ear candling/coning pulls debris from these tubes and the removal of this debris frequently relieves some sinus conditions.
Why Ear Candling?
We go to professionals for things we can do for ourselves and each other. Ear candling/coning falls into this category. Lack of information and fear have separated us from a valuable health tool. This art is potentially miraculous and inexpensive to practice.
Ear candling/coning has been featured on CBS and KCAL The KCAL story was favorable, however, the doctorsinterviewed by CBS raised some concerns about ear candling/coning and said that this practice should only be handled by a licensed physician, which makes perfect sense to all of these individuals who charge not only for the service but also for the office call, more times than not at a huge difference in price. The two articles portrayed two different points of view by the reporters. In the Los Angeles Times article, the reporter had her ears cleaned and loved the process. In the second article, the reporter was afraid of the idea and transferred it into the article. you, find someone trust worthy and try it. You've got nothing to lose that you'd ever miss.
Many musicians, singers and composers love to get coning done, for it heightens cavity resonance or the way they hear sound. Ear candling/coning has been done in many families for centuries: many people tell me this is something their mothers used to do for them. Although some doctors perform ear candling/coning, anyone can learn to be quite competent with just a few hours of training. To say that ear candling/coning should only be done by a physician is similar to saying that only a physician is qualified to take a temperature.
If a person has a great deal of embedded wax buildup, I suggest they go to an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist to have it removed. Ear coning will remove the wax; however the process can be quite slow and therefore costly, if done by a professional. Regular maintenance of the ears, through quarterly or semi annual candling/coning will maintain healthy ears, once the Eustachian tubes have been cleared. You know when the tubes are clear, as you will feel smoke or warmth by the collar bone.
