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crap... that wasnt the link I was looking for - however I did have one that basically proved it to be totally ineffective. Whatever stuff is in the candle and ear after the burning is caused by burning the candle in the first place

Why Ear Candling Is Not a Good Idea

I'm not trying to offened anyone with my comments, i'm slating the treatment, not the therapists. It doesn't matter how good a therapist you are, ear candles are dangerous and innafective. I'm simply trying to prove there is no good that can come from using them.

CJO - Abstract

HealthWatcher.net - Ear candling is dangerous, fraudulent and illegal in Canada

This really winds me up!
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and allowed to make their own choices. Just because someone doesnt agree with certain treatments or believe in the claims that come with certain treatments (if that makes sense) doesnt mean that the treatment doesnt work. I agree that it is unprofessional for any therapist to claim that the contents of the candle are the contents that have come out of the Clients ears.
Any good therapist will keep records of treatments and will do their own research and follow up when possible the effects certain treatments have on their Clients. Not all therapies are right for every Client, this doesnt mean that the treatment was a load of rubbish, if that was the case then you may as well say that every Holistic/alternative therapy is crap.

I think that the only point is that there is no scientific evidence that the treatment has any effect at all and several studies have been done. If you can point out where scientific research has been done and proven that this treatment is valid, then I would be very interested in reading it and I would happily change my viewpoint. Otherwise I think it is wrong to charge people for a treatment that is merely 'believed' to be working when the science says that it doesn't.

Everyone should go to Quackwatch and read all the articles.

Apparently, the force needed to "suck up" all the wax from your ears into the candle would be so strong it would perforate the eardrum.

Yes everyone is entitled to their opinion but you cannot argue with scientific fact!!

Faye can you clear your messages as need to send you message, thanks

I've taken on board what you've all said and had a look at the links, some of which I have seen before and are all interesting.

I still stand by hopi ear candling (maybe I have been miss-informed of where it originates from). Alot of the bad cases written about where clients have been burned is just bad practice on the therapists part (assuming it was carried out by a therapist) or a badly designed candle being used.
There is no scientific research done on ear candles (as with many complementary therapies), but there is vast amounts of anecdotal evidence and I would not have clients repeatedly returning if they didn't get any benefits from it. There are many things that can't be scientifically explained, this doesn't necessarily make them rubbish.

Ear candling does not suck ear wax and toxins from the ears, as some have suggested. But in my experience, clients who have to have their ears syringed yearly, then a ear candling treatment once a month appears to prevent a large build up of wax.

I always explain to my clients that it may or may not work for them, but as most clients have a facial and auricular massage after the ear candling, they are always very relaxed and are in no way ripped off.

I will bore you no more on the subject and I'm glad we can come on this site and have discussions with lots of different people.

many "permanent" eyelash companies have had to do a backflip (or resort to tricky wording)....... hahahah, i love the "up to 6 weeks", that encompasses quite a long time
Even to state "Hopi" when in fact there is nothing "Hopi" about it is misleading. I prefer to back all my services up with fact, longevity of service, including research & development by my manufacturer/supplier. Guess "Hopi" may have to change wording also ...... or perhaps they already rely on faith alone. Based on "fact" I could not sell this kind of service and sleep comfortably.

When I had my training for Hopi ear candles we were told that Hopi stands for PEACE that was where the name came from. Please dont shout at me if this is wrong I am just telling you what they taught us.

When you do the therapies that many of us do you often cannot back them up with fact .Reiki being one of the strangest that really is away with the fairies, but they have reiki practitioners in hospices all over the country.
While you can still be insured for ear candling and there are still very few cases of any harm in comparison to how many are treated ,i will want to do it.
It is a whole 1 hour treatment with massage,music ,scented candles etc its not just a case of sticking a candle in your ear , also the candle does not go in that far its quite wide.
Using the right filtered candles i would say at worst it does no good, although i do it on my son and every few months he will say hes feeling deaf.I do it he feels unbunged and hes fine for another few months.I myself had a raging ear infection a few months back anti biotics didnt work i ear candled and it went ,coincidence maybe .Its not to be recommended because you dont treat ear infections, but its my body and i can do what i like.
If we can only do therapies that we can back up with science that puts a heck of a lot of therapies out of favour.Just because an explanation or scientific reason for things hasnt been discovered yet doesn't mean there isnt one and that something doesnt work.

I've trained in ear candling, and must admit that i dont carry out the treatments on many people, only really family and friends.

I would just like to say that throughout my training and various books and articles i have read, i have never heard any of these claims about remove impurities from sinuses/brain or indeed claiming to remove ear wax.

A well trained therapist should not be telling clients it removes ear wax, as there have never been any tests to prove this. If you read Andrew Sceats book on Ear Candling there is a lot of information in there about this subject.

oh dear i seem to have started a right debate by asking a simple question!! hope everyone has calmed down now, (only joking) well ive read all ure comments and done alot of reaearch myself and i have decided not to train in this field, many thanx.