History

The healing method now called ear candling has been around for centuries. Many nations have used the method for thousands of years. The ancient Egyptians employed reeds in this technique. Native Americans have also done ear candling using cornhusks, dipping them in beeswax to make a hollow candle. The process was also known in ancient India, Tibet, and in the Aztec culture.

Ear Candling was originally used for purification prior to or as part of ancient rites of initiation. Ear Candling was used to assist in opening the body’s spiritual centers, thus cleansing the spiritual body through the physical. In fact, it is still believed by some that the ear candling process can break up blockages in the subtle energy system and the subconscious where repressed emotions and memories can lie hidden from the conscious mind, causing degenerative disease.

The process is still being handed down orally today in many centers of traditional medicine, and, with the recent interest in traditional medicine, has lately been gaining in general popularity, too.

Ear candling: An Age-Old Remedy Revived

Once upon a time we did most of it ourselves, with some help from the elders of the village. Then came a time when we turned it over to someone else or to an institution. Now many of us are moving back to the idea of learning to do it ourselves with a little help from the institution in special cases. “It” refers to healing the body and learning preventative measures that keep the body strong, youthful, dynamic, and fully functioning.

One proven technique of prevention and help for the body that great-grandmother or grandmother was probably familiar with is candling. Candling is a natural ear healing technique that began centuries ago, possibly originating in ancient Egypt. Because the process worked, candling spread to Europe, Greece, and China and is now practiced around the world.

Given its name because the practitioner uses a hollow waxed cloth candle, this simple home remedy, as based on testimonials, assists in the removing of ear wax and may improve any of the following conditions: sinus problems, sore throat, ear ache, swimmer’s ear, some chronic headaches, allergies and hearing difficulty.

There is no discomfort to the person receiving the treatment; old earwax and noxious toxins are drawn up into the candle, which has been placed gently in the ear and lit. The low flame of the burning candle creates a slow vacuum, which softens and pulls the old wax into the base of the candle. How is it that such results are obtained? The theory is that is possible because all of the passages in the head are interconnected, allowing the candles to drain the entire system using osmosis through the membrane of the ear.

Structurally, the internal carotid artery, the auditory tube, the cochlear nerve, the facial nerve, the semicircular canal and the first turn of the cochlea are all located in the area immediately behind the tympanic membranes. All nerves have a thin coating of spinal fluid, which can become polluted. The fluid in your body circulates 14 times a day in order to cleanse itself. If the system is laden with toxicity from the environment and the food we eat; then the body cannot take in what it needs in the way of metabolites for the nerves.

The ear contains nerve endings and acupuncture points to every other are of the body, mind, and emotions. The nerve endings are connected by streams of the subtle energy flow, which carries our life force energy or Qi (chi). If hearing is impaired or blocked, we are disconnected from that energy.

A typical candling client is one searching for a more “natural” way to alleviate pressure in their head or upper respiratory area, or someone in search of relief from pain in their children’s ears, or to hear, smell, see or just “plain” feel better.

The practitioner of candling might be a massage therapist, an esthetician, an herbalist, a medical assistant, a naturopath, a health care provider or family member.

The Professional Staff at:
Essential Therapies
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