Feb 09, 2005 09:58
so yesterday i went to a salon to learn how to do ear candling.
It was awesome. First you have the patient lie down and then you stick a paper cone that is dipped in bee's wax in the patients ear. You light it and smoke goes out the bottom into the ear canal forming a vacum of sorts which sucks out the wax in your ears and pulls it into the cone. you let it burn all the way down and then apply ear drops...the amount of crap comming out of these girls ears was amazing....
Ear candling is used primary for cleaning the ears and to promote a healthy atmosphere in the ears, sinus cavities and throat. There are, however, several other benefits, as mention before. The process can regulate pressure, assist with post nasal drip, sinusitis, catarrh, migraines, some forms of hearing loss, restoration of equilibrium, relieving tinnitus, vertigo and Meniere's Syndrome.
When the Europeans first came to North America they found that the North American Indians had many different ways of healing, one of those ways was ear candling. Some tribes were very advanced in healing, the Hopi was one of them, and ear candling came from the Hopi. Some sources say ear candling (also known as coning) came from China and Egypt, and this may be true, but my training came from Europe and they claim they learned the knowledge from the Hopi Indians.