I've had some questions regarding ear candling so I thought I would try and explain...
Ear candling, also called ear coning or thermal-auricular therapy, is an alternative medicine practice claimed to improve general health and well-being by lighting one end of a hollow candle and placing the other end in the ear canal.
One end of a cylinder or cone of waxed cloth is lit, and the other placed into the subject's ear. Usually the subject is lying on one side with the treated ear uppermost and the candle vertical. The candle can be stuck through a paper plate or aluminum pie tin to protect against any hot wax or ash falling onto the subject. The flame is cut back occasionally with scissors and extinguished between two and four inches from the subject. Proponents claim[citation needed] that the flame creates negative pressure, drawing wax and debris out of the ear canal, which appears as a dark residue.
An ear candling session can last from 15 minutes to 45 minutes, during which time a series of one or two ear candles may be burned for each ear.
***all information and pictures were taken from google. I didn't write it. Overall a cool experiance. Brent and I thought it was fun in the same way that science world is fun lol. We may be nerdy though. :) You go away with a clean ear feel and almost like you can hear better. It didn't help my ear infection at all. Oh well. It was a fun thing to try..if your into trying new/weird/gross things.
xoxox
-Sheena (plus Brent & baby)
*posted from iPhone
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