![]() The control candle produced smoke that poured from the bottom of the tapered end, suggesting that positive, not negative pressure was being produced. The human subject reported no feeling of a vacuum which is purported to occur during the burning of the candle. However, since the candle remnant of the control candle and the one inserted into a human volunteer weighed exactly the same, we conclude that this did not happen. It is possible that the candle produced wax but also extracted solid material from the ear was mixed with the candle wax. However, since the wax appears whether or not the candle is placed in a human ear, we conclude that the source of the wax is the candle and not the ear. CONCLUSIONS: The ear candle, when burned, produced a brown waxy substance that looks like ear wax. To investigate this notion, we obtained several ear candles from a local health food store and investigated their properties…. “During the course of investigating ear candling we often encountered the belief that ear candles create a vacuum that draws fluids and wax from the ear canal, which in turn produces beneficial health effects. In theory, the heat from the flame creates a vacuum seal and the earwax adheres to the candle. It’s done by lighting one end of a hollow candle and placing the other end in the ear canal. What is it? Does it work? Is it safe? Ear candling, also called ear coning or thermal-auricular therapy, is an alternative medicine practice claimed to assist the natural clearing of earwax from a person’s ear. ![]() Patients sometimes ask The Audiologist about ear candling. To find out if you have excessive wax buildup, just ask your audiologist or physician to look in your ear with an otoscope. But Audiologists do it all day long, using special “otoscopes” with halogen lighting. It is nearly impossible to look in your own ear. This much we do know: If you have symptoms of ear pain, itchiness, or hearing loss it may be due to excessive earwax, but it may be due to another cause that should be medically treated. We also don’t know why some people experience earwax blockage or why earwax blockage sometimes occurs in only one of their ears. We don’t know why some people secrete more cerumen than others.
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