I did an ear coning yesterday on a girl who had been in pain and whose ears were packed with wax. The procedure seems odd to "Westerners", but is ancient (Tibetan, Chinese, Hopi, etc.). The interesting thing in this case was that adults who watched found it "spooky" while a 10 year old was fascinated, saying, "me next, me next". Hollow ear candles are used with a flame at the top to create a warming vacuum. You have to know what you're doing - but I have never had an adverse reaction in anyone. I have pulled old, dead bugs out of people's ears; had a woman healed of incapacitating vertigo (see Testimonials at http://www.naturalpaths.org/); had a friend's sinus infection relieved...on and on. Allopathy uses water under pressure to evacuate the ears (I had it done when I was 15 - NEVER again, it hurt for weeks, one ear bled, I lost some hearing in that ear and was really frightened). I had a friend in Sedona who made his living doing ear conings...we used to talk about the smell of warm ear wax (it is unique!). A friend's husband looked in her ears with an otiscope before and after I did her ears. He admitted that he saw lots of wax before and it was gone after the ear candles. I guess we each choose our own medicine. Let's make sure we always maintain that option!
