Ear Candles

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Ear Candles

HISTORY

Ear candling originated in ancient civilizations of Atlantis, Lemuria, Mu, India, China, Tibet, Egypt, and Native American Indian Cultures, thousands of years ago. All of these cultures utilized ear coning in healing, and spiritual purification. The knowledge of acupuncture demonstrates how the ears coordinate with the organs in your body. With the population on this earth increasing in size, the consciousness of many healing arts are also expanding, and beginning to flourish here in our western culture. These ancient cultures used papyrus reeds, corn stalks, clay tubes with double helixes carved into them, and in more recent times, rolled newspaper dipped in wax.

Modern technology vs. Ancient technology

With all the medical advancements through modern technology and the different techniques of ear cleaning, why ear candling? What makes it so much more effective than the conventional methods of ear cleaning?

Many medical practitioners use a variety of different tools which are invasive to clean the ears, such as Q-tip swabs. While the use of other tools are long and scrape the external surface of the ear canal, other tools similar to a water pick, force a water type fluid into the ear canal, dissolving and forcing the earwax from the pore.

An extreme method of ear cleaning is using a scalpel to cut open the back of the ear, therefore exposing the pores of the ear, then using a swab to clean out the debris and infection.

All of these different methods are invasive and have been known to create other physical problems such as deafness. Ear candling is a natural alternative, and has a way of working with a subtle vacuum, in allowing the body to naturally release toxins and debris in an effortless way, which is non-invasive.

ANATOMY

The ear contains approximately four thousand pores, along with several thousand nerve endings. As Asian ear charts show the acupuncture points, there are nerves and meridians within the ear canal connecting to the pores. Nerves connect like telephone lines from one part of the body to the other, attaching themselves to organs, bones, muscles, skin, and run to the very extremities of our hands, feet, and ears. The nerve carries subtle energy flow, which carries our life force.

Pores inside the ear canal run deep into our system connecting to our sinuses, skeletal, lymph nodes, eyes, and to other parts of the body. The pore also connects to the cerumen gland. The cerumen gland processes unwanted substances such as yeast, sugars, and fluids along with protein matter, fats, and carbohydrates in producing ear wax twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. When the pores have an over abundance of ear wax, the pores are then swollen, putting pressure on the nerve endings. In turn, the nerve ending puts pressure on the organ, which inhibits the organ from producing the essential nutrients for the immune system. Also, nerve endings become blocked and cannot transmit vibration frequencies when fungus or yeast growth is attached. The body is then disconnected from the transmissions of energy.

HEALTH PROBLEMS

Most people have pre-existing health conditions which have been laying dormant within their body for many years, and are unaware of what is happening to their body... until they come down with symptoms such as headaches, deafness, equilibrium imbalance, tinititus (ringing in the ears), diabetes, heart problems, arthritis, emotional instability, sleeping disorders, enzyme function impairments, night blindness, vision problems, and the feeling of numbness. Candida, which stems from the liver and kidneys, create infestations and toxicity, which may be a combination of decomposing medication, yeast and parasitic worms, and allow viruses to enter into the body and causes other symptoms, such as itching in the ear, stress, and belspalsy. Some parasites burrow into the ear wax and remain dormant until the weather conditions change, and/or the change of your diet. Other parasites will remain active in your body, bringing about a feeling of sluggishness, and or feeling fatigued all the time. Ear candling can help reduce these conditions and help normalize the clarity of hearing, sight, smell, touch, and taste. Some people feel that ear candling can cure these conditions.

THE MECHANICS OF EAR CANDLES

The ear candles operates through osmosis. This is where one chamber (ear candle) is attached to another chamber (ear canal). The ear candle is trying to equalize pressure to the ear canal. Since the body is a membrane of tissue with many pores, nooks and crannies, the ear candle will never equalize pressure. Hence forth, the ear cone will continually keep working at equalizing pressure. In turn, the vapors of warm smoke from the candle travel down into the ear canal, middle ear, Eustachian tube, warming up the pores, softening the wax, and soothing irritations. The fire from the burning candle creates a vacuum dislodging and detoxifying the lymphatic system, clearing the sinuses, and drawing out accumulated debris such as impacted ear wax, Candida, crystallized protein matter, fungus, yeast and infection, into the cone.

EAR WAX

Granted, it is necessary to have ear wax to protect us from the cold, viruses and other organisms. An over abundance of ear wax could very well create blockages, swelling up the pores, creating other blockages within, therefore, not allowing the rest of the wax to flow through the pores normally. This will allow infestations of organisms into the pores, eventually leading to conditions such as the common head cold.

When the ear candle draws out the debris from the ear, the debris that comes up into the candle will be of a powdery substance. The powder substance is ear wax and other debris. This is a light weight form of powder. This powder will be drawn toward the flame, accumulating to the side of the ear cone and blending with bee's wax, therefore becoming a stick. The heavy powder has body fluids and or moisture attached. This substance is too heavy to be drawn into the flame. This heavy powder ear wax coagulates and becomes clumped together and rests at the base of the cone.

EAR CANDLING PROCEDURE

This procedure will help children, adults, and senior citizens of all ages, and not to forget animals of all kinds. The release of ear wax, toxins and debris from the ear canal will help reduce the pressure off nerve endings and meridians of the body.

The ear candling procedure usually requires a commitment of at least one to two sessions a week, using at least two sets of Cone Ear Candles, for a month, in order to complete the drawing out of debris. You will notice, in the beginning, very little wax will come out. This is due to the pores that have been blocked. As you continue the process, you will notice an increase in volume. This will continue for about three weeks providing you continue the cleanse, as per schedule, until the volume of ear wax begins to subside. It is then, that the ear candling process can be reduced to once or twice a month depending on the persons condition, and candle once a month for maintenance purposes. It's like getting a hair cut, or getting your nails groomed.

Some people who have had their ears candled will usually feel a clearing, and within a few hours will feel clogged up again. This is due to the cerumen gland producing fresh ear wax that is pushing the old ear wax to the surface. When this happens, the ear wax will put pressure on the nerve endings, and therefore creates the feeling of deafness. This is known as an extreme condition and ear candling needs to be continued until the condition has been alleviated.

How safe is ear candling? Unless you have a perforated eardrum, there shouldn’t be any difficulties. This is a non-invasive natural procedure, although to the uninformed, quite strange looking. To see someone lying on their side with what looks like a flaming dinner candle sticking out of the ear isn’t a normal sight, even in areas where alternative medicine flourishes! The procedure generally lasts less than 45 minutes.

How to “Candle” your ears:

Have a bowl of water close at hand, scissors, matches (or a lighter), a toothpick, and a paper plate, or metal pie in. Place the subject in a comfortable position on their side with a pillow under their head.

Cut a dime-size hole in the paper plate, or pie tin, (This will serve to catch any wax, should some drip from the outside of the candle).

Insert the candle through the hole in the plate. Light the large end of the candle, and place the small end firmly seated in the ear canal. If smoke is escaping from the small end, please seat the candle again.

During the process, please hold the candle at a slight angle from perpendicular (at least 20 degrees). This will keep any melting wax that runs down the inside of the candle from depositing in the ear. Any melting wax will harden before it reaches the tip. This will also slow the small end of the candle from becoming stopped with wax, and residue, during the procedure, providing maximum benefit.

After the first 2 minutes, remove the candle from the ear, and clean out the tip with a toothpick. This will keep smoke flowing into the ear canal.

Note: if it is more comfortable, you may hold the candle in a straight up and down position.

Remove the candle from the ear about every 3 minutes. Check to see that the tip is open, and trim off the burned portion of the candle into the bowl of water with a sharp pair of scissors. Do not trim away so much that the flame is extinguished. (This will provide maximum injection of the smoke throughout the process.)

Let the candle burn down to no closer than 3” from the end. Extinguish the burning end in the bowl of water, and dispose of it in a safe manner.

The session is complete, unless you want to candle the other ear. If so, repeat all steps.

Safety Notes:

A very small amount of ash may fall from the candle during the process. The amount will be negligible, and should not be a cause for concern.

Always keep the flame end up, and the tip down. An ear candle burned with the flame end down will consume in an extremely short time, and is a fire hazard.

You are using an open flame, so always be cautious, and use common sense while using this product.

Ear Candles are not a medical device. They are a home remedy. Results will vary from user to user. No results are guaranteed, or implied by Midvalleyvu Farms . The FDA has not evaluated this product for safety or effectiveness. Do not use ear candles as a substitute for professional medical treatment. Midvalleyvu Farms does not assume liability for any damage that may occur. As with all home remedies, the user assumes all liabilities. Use caution, and common sense with this product.

What You’ll Find:

Debris that has been extracted from the ears have an appearance in color similar to the bee's wax, and some of the powdery material will have a range of colors.

Colors such as blue, may be related to medication. As the medication decomposes it will change colors, therefore changing from blue to light blue, then to white.

Infection has the appearance of olive drab, and when it decomposes, it may become the color gray. Candida has the looks of white in color. The solid pieces will also have various hues of color, with the appearance from creamy yellow, orange, beige, dark walnut, to black shoe polish.

The darker the color, the older the wax.

The ear wax, when in a normal state, should have the appearance of a creamy toffee in color. Ear wax will also release a strong pungent smell!