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Other than plenty of relief from stress, ear candling can provide numerous medical benefits. Few would deny the crowds of patients it draws, notwithstanding those who dispute its perks.
Ear candling can improve hearing. It even alleviates tinnitus or ringing in the ears; swimmer's ear, earaches, and other ear conditions. It may also lessen discomfort brought about by ruptured eardrums.
Consequently, ear candling could provide relief from symptoms of sinusitis and related infections. By draining the ear cavities of wax and debris, it reduces headaches associated with blocked sinuses.
Furthermore, ear candle practitioners also claim to be able to fine-tune the senses of taste, smell, and vision in their patients. They say ear candling could detoxify the blood and aid in lymphatic circulation. Plus, they claim it could cure hay fever, sore throats, and vertigo.
Ear candling per se is good for the brain, in that it relieves neuralgia, stress, and anxiety. Many even claim it could heal someone suffering from Meniere's syndrome.
Ear candles do all this by removing wax, bacteria, and debris from the ear canal. In turn, they could unblock the passages leading from the ear canal to the sinus cavities and the central nervous system.
They serve as a suctioning device of sorts, sucking wax and impurities from the inner ear like a chimney. The burning candles create circumstances in the inner ear that change the air pressure therein. In other words, they create a vacuum, compelling the secretion of earwax, which would then integrate with the candle. If not, they could at least loosen and soften the impurities, which should emerge from the ears within hours.
One session usually takes no more than an hour, 15 minutes allotted for each ear. Two to three candles are tops for a session. An able "candler" or candling practitioner should be able to carry out the procedure in a spa or a clinic, although one could just do it at home with DIY kits.
Ear candles are available online in all sizes. Prices range from as little as £2 to £10. Ear candles are usually hollow, made of a cone-shaped cotton tube coated with beeswax.
Despite all this, ear candles are not meant as substitutes for treatments of ear tumours, otosclerosis, otospongiosis, auricular cysts, mastoiditis, grommets, auricular drains and similarly critical conditions. All the same, candling is an alternative medicine to reckon with, amid the strident din of ear treatments out there.
