Indonesians Use Beeswax ‘Ear Candles’ to Treat Hearing Impairment

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Indonesians Use Beeswax `Ear Candles' to Treat Hearing

Impairment

 

 

 

Ear Candling Therapy Getting Thousands Out of Sticky Situations

 

By Kanis Dursin, The Jakarta Post (Indonesia), 9/5/2007

 

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An attendant inserts the pointy end of a candle into the auditory canal

of her patient's ear and immediately lights the blunt end.

 

 

 

And, for the next 15 minutes or so, she holds the candle steady and

upright, while the patient, eager to get rid of his earache, lies

motionless on the bed, listening to the crackling sound of the wick

burning down.

 

 

 

By the end of the ritual, which lasts for up to one-and-a-half hours and

takes six candles -- three for each ear -- the patient declares he is

feeling much better and is looking forward to the next treatment

session.

 

 

 

If this sounds like magic to you it is because the therapy, called ear

candling or auricular candling, has worked wonders for the more than

12,000 people who have resorted to the alternative treatment for

persistent hearing impairments…