Massage Therapy : How Ear Candles Work

Ear candles work by creating a suction that pulls free collected particles of wax. Discover how ear candles work with tips from a licensed massage therapist in this free video series on massage therapy.

Expert: Rebecca Harrick
Bio: Rebecca Harrick is a licensed massage therapist who works at the Everything Peaceful Massage Therapy Center in Wilmington, N.C.
Filmmaker: Reel Media LLC

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• deep tissue

[Oudler]

Ear candles are a dangerous form of quackery! Go to the Quackwatch website

[tlashae1]

If you dont know what your talking about you shouldn't comment...... this does work! NOTHING DRIPS !!! The candle is not even made of wax.....get some education before you try to so negatively throw people off with your ignorance.

[Trevaspo13]

The guy was hot...

[danthompson1m]

I don't know if these work by air pressure or wicking action - and I don't care. I've used them several times. Each time the stub of the hollow tube is filled, not with pale yellow beeswax, but with *red-orange* EAR wax - the same as I can pull from my ears superficially with a Q-tip. My hearing improves. My partner's sinusitis improves. All of this disparagement - citing Newtonian physics, or snake oil mythology - is parroting the medical/pharmaceutical establishment's hostile PR. Try it!

[danthompson1m]

@denisethepainter this is simply untrue, Denise. I've done this several times, and each time the burned down candle tube is filled, not with beeswax, but with characteristically sticky, red-orange EAR wax - the same color of wax I can remove from my ear with a Q-tip. All the ear candles I can find on the web now have a filter to prevent back flow - an innovation driven more by false accusations like yours than by any real danger. Mainstream medicine spends millions disparaging alternatives..

[plstrom]

so what happens if you melt the candles wax into your ear ?

[QuantumCurrent]

@denisethepainter bogus comment

[RohypGnosis]

@RohypGnosis Calbert1999? Where are you? You sent me a message but now I can't find you or reply!! Have you blocked me? Why? Is it because you've realised you reply to me made you seem even sillier? :D

p.s. I didn't mention methematics at all, so I'm not sure why you think I brought it up! n.b. "RttM" in relation to Health means by the time you're fed up with being ill and bother to see someone you're body is well into repairing itself... Hence 'Snake Oil' appears to work!

[RohypGnosis]

@calbert1999 Your 'cure' was due to two things. (i) Placebo Effect, & (ii) Reversion to the Mean.

p.s. I've used candles, (knowing they were a scam), and a very pleasant & fun sensation they were.

p.p.s. I last went to the doctors aged 16, (29yrs ago). I've not taken a pill, or sipped a medicine, since then. However, if/when I do become ill and require treatment I can assure you I'll be using medicines that have been approved as providing some form of benefit following double-blind trial.

[RohypGnosis]

How utterly ridiculous!! Creates suction??? How exactly??? There's no way a vacuum can form!

Let's suspend the laws of physics and believe in fairies for a moment shall we? OK? Well... the 'draft' from your flame would be so weak it would be a mere miniscule fraction of that subjected to all our ears every time the wind blows. So, is the air at a busy, windy train station thick with ear wax being sucked out and flying around? No!! So please use that brain of yours & start thinking logically.

[rescyou]

Gotta make sure you you dip the tip in some snake oil to get a proper seal..... I'm surprised they haven't come up with butt candling to cure constipation....