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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on November 05, 2013, 02:12:37 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018511154
Oh my.
I brought this over just out of sheer boredom; I'm sitting around with a bad cold, waiting for the first snowflaks of winter to descend out here in the Sandhills, which they're forecast to do later today.
Anyway.
I never heard of this, and why would people with ears wish to endanger them?
:jugs: :yahoo: (19,034 posts) Tue Nov 5, 2013, 02:21 AM
Anyone ever try ear candling?
If so, how did it work out for you?
<<<thinks :jugs: :yahoo: would be better off dealing with her other problem, not this one.
davidpdx (11,394 posts) Tue Nov 5, 2013, 06:08 AM
1. I've heard of it, but never tried it
I have a pretty bad problem with wax buildup and water in my ear. It is annoying as hell. The first few years I was here in Korea I ended up at the EMT quite a few times for scratching the inside my ear. When I can I try to use the ear wax kits you can buy at the pharmacy.
The problem is the drops only have a shelf life of about a year. Living outside the US I can't find them, so often I bring them back with me (along with every other over the counter meds I can't find here) or have someone send them to me. I have seen more and more western over the counter stuff, so I suppose one day we could get them.
I can't even buy fricken Tylenol in more than a package of 10. When I go home I bring back 500 with me. Oh, the things I miss from home.
In_The_Wind (49,524 posts) Tue Nov 5, 2013, 06:12 AM
2. I've done it for myself and others. It seemed to help.
^^^the primitive with really grotesque creases underlining her, uh, cheeks.
HipChick (10,836 posts) Tue Nov 5, 2013, 08:19 AM
3. I do it pretty often..
Xyzse (3,702 posts) Tue Nov 5, 2013, 09:43 AM
4. I tried it on myself but I'm pretty sure I was doing it wrong.
I did it for someone however, where I massaged their face while the candle was burning...
I think she had a much better experience due to the massage more than anything else.
rudolph the red (9 posts) Tue Nov 5, 2013, 10:39 AM
5. When I was young I loved to swim, and was constantly getting ear infections.
My mom started candling my ears every week and I literally never once had another infection.
cyberswede (13,449 posts) Tue Nov 5, 2013, 10:51 AM
6. I don't think there's any science to back up claims of benefit.
Traditional health sources discourage it.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/ear-candling/AN02086
http://www.webmd.com/fda/stay-away-ear-candles
and even non-traditional health sources:
http://www.homeopathyforlife.net/ear-candling-is-it-dangerous/
after which a photograph of earwax samples laid out on open tortillas
LisaLynne (13,661 posts) Tue Nov 5, 2013, 11:17 AM
7. My sister set my hair on fire ...
so I would say it was not the best experience.
:jugs: :yahoo: (19,034 posts)
9. Oh no!
That doesn't sound good.
LisaLynne (13,661 posts) Tue Nov 5, 2013, 12:51 PM
14. Well, she's sort of a clutz, so ...
I should have known better and had someone else help!
Rowdyboy (21,201 posts) Tue Nov 5, 2013, 11:22 AM
8. My partner and I both had some sucess with it a few years ago...
It helps to have someone to assist you if possible. While I know there's no scientific evidence that supports it, we found it useful. Good luck!
Blue_Tires (33,794 posts) Tue Nov 5, 2013, 11:58 AM
10. It *seemed* to help
but the risks kind of outweigh any possible benefits...
If it's not done properly you WILL be in pain for awhile afterwards...
HERVEPA (2,868 posts) Tue Nov 5, 2013, 12:18 PM
11. It's crap. Just woo
All real scientific studies have shown this. Can also be dangerous.
Geez. I'm sad that many DU folks don't believe in real science.
Ptah (25,704 posts) Tue Nov 5, 2013, 12:21 PM
12. A 2007 paper in American Family Physician had this to say:
Ear candling also should be avoided. Ear candling is a practice in which a hollow candle
is inserted into the external auditory canal and lit, with the patient lying on the opposite ear.
In theory, the combination of heat and suction is supposed to remove earwax. However,
in one trial, ear candles neither created suction nor removed wax and actually led to occlusion
with candle wax in persons who previously had clean ear canals. Primary care physicians may
see complications from ear candling including candle wax occlusion, local burns, and
tympanic membrane perforation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ear_candling#Criticism
MicaelS (4,823 posts) Tue Nov 5, 2013, 12:44 PM
13. Been thinking about buying an Elephant Ear Washer system.
http://www.doctor-easy.com/
Amazon sells them. And the reviews seem very positive.
I have a problem with wax build up, and the only thing that works for me is to wash them out with warm water. I use a large plastic syringe, but it doesn't hold enough water.
Tuesday Afternoon (48,216 posts) Tue Nov 5, 2013, 12:54 PM
15. Debrox system works for me. That bulb apparatus does the trick.
http://www.debrox.com/
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Simple solution for DUmmies. Light candle, stuff it in your ear. Repeat as often as needed until you immolate yourself & clothing. If you'd like to prep for it, dousing yourself in gasoline first may help.
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A couple things, lurkers:
1. The lighted end is supposed to go out, not in. Try it any way you like, though.
2. Ear candling hasn't been proven to work at all, but inasmuch as it's claimed to loosen impacted material, go right ahead and try ass candling. Not like you haven't thought of it already. I'm looking at YOU, William769.
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davidpdx (11,394 posts) Tue Nov 5, 2013, 06:08 AM
The first few years I was here in Korea I ended up at the EMT quite a few timesfor scratching the inside my ear.
Now there is a real DUmmy.
He must be using a corkscrew.
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.....I'm looking at YOU, William769.
So.....you know him, too?
<<<thought was the only one looking at Wills, as talent for the Top DUmmies of 2013, but if he's got talent, he hides it pretty well.
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An ear hole would be the last place I would think a DUchebag would be jamming a candle into...the last.
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So.....you know him, too?
<<<thought was the only one looking at Wills, as talent for the Top DUmmies of 2013, but if he's got talent, he hides it pretty well.
Only to the extent that the only thing he ever posts about ever is gay stuff. I would guess that he would be uniquely interested in a thread suggesting what one might do with a tubular, relatively rigid item.
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Only to the extent that the only thing he ever posts about ever is gay stuff. I would guess that he would be uniquely interested in a thread suggesting what one might do with a tubular, relatively rigid item.
I'm betting he is a big proponent of ass candling.
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Only to the extent that the only thing he ever posts about ever is gay stuff. I would guess that he would be uniquely interested in a thread suggesting what one might do with a tubular, relatively rigid item.
Yeah, Wills gets to be rather tedious at times; he's a "one-issue" primitive; nothing else matters but that.
Whenever I run into him, I always think, "Come on, Wills, give us something different this time--talk about stamp-collecting or inflation or the water rising in Venice or the price of soybeans in Burma or whatever else, anything else other than just this issue."
God, I'd be miserable if I were a "one-issue" primitive.
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talk about stamp-collecting
There aren't enough stamps with gay dudes on them! BOYCOTT!
or inflation
FREE VIAGRA for gay men! OCCUPY!
or the water rising in Venice
Thomas Mann was gay, you know
or the price of soybeans in Burma
Does his beard on your balls/feel like a lathe?/Get that twink/some BURMA SHAVE!
or whatever else, anything else other than just this issue."
Sorry, love to help you out.
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I guess it’s time that I fess up to the great ear candling disaster of 1996 that would have had me in the Top 10 if the DOTY had been in existence back then.
In 1996 I had never heard of ear candling, but I had a friend who was on an all-natural, homeopathic kick that swore by it. He told me that I should try it. I was reluctant. Although I don’t completely discount some of the all-natural, herbal type stuff, I could see no possible way that ear candling could be helpful. When he saw that I was skeptical he told me he’d give me two of the “candles†if I would give it a try. Now generally speaking, I’m the type of person who, if you tell me to stick something in my ear and set it on fire, will tell you to get lost, but for whatever reason (maybe that was back when I was drinking) I told him I’d try it and later that night I experienced the wonders of ear candling.
I got out the candles and read the instructions. If I remember correctly, I was supposed to cut a hole, just big enough for the small end of the candle to fit through, in a pie plate. Then stick the small end of the candle in my ear and light the large end of the candle.
My problem was that I didn’t have a pie plate. I didn’t have any type of plate other than dinner plates so I improvised.
Now let me say that I just figured that the pie plate was only to protect you from any gently falling ash from the top of the candle. I had no idea that it was, in essence, a barrier to protect you from lava.
Any way, since I didn’t have a pie plate I took a small plastic cup and cut a hole in the bottom of it. I laid down on the floor and told my wife to light the end of the candle. Soon thereafter is when the problems started.
I don’t know if I moved my head or what, but the part of the candle that was on fire broke from the rest of the candle and fell down to where the pie plate would have been IF I would have had a pie plate. Since I didn’t have a pie plate and since the small plastic cup that I did have was much smaller than a pie plate, the flaming piece of goodness missed the barrier and fell onto my arm.
My wife was in a position so that she couldn’t see where the fire fell. She just knew that it had fallen. I, on the other hand, knew immediately where it fell, but it posed a dilemma. If I screamed that it was on my arm I knew she would freak out and knock it from my arm onto the carpet. Also, I was scared to move because if I did it would fall onto the carpet. So, remaining as calm as I could, I simply asked her to hand me the cup and scooped the piece of candle into the cup.
Needless to say, when my wife saw my arm I had to listen to much ranting and raving, but I didn’t have to replace any carpet. I still have a scar on my arm.
Except for burning my arm ear candling didn’t do anything for me so my advice is to save your money.
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I guess it’s time that I fess up to the great ear candling disaster of 1996 that would have had me in the Top 10 if the DOTY had been in existence back then.
In 1996 I had never heard of ear candling, but I had a friend who was on an all-natural, homeopathic kick that swore by it. He told me that I should try it. I was reluctant. Although I don’t completely discount some of the all-natural, herbal type stuff, I could see no possible way that ear candling could be helpful. When he saw that I was skeptical he told me he’d give me two of the “candles†if I would give it a try. Now generally speaking, I’m the type of person who, if you tell me to stick something in my ear and set it on fire, will tell you to get lost, but for whatever reason (maybe that was back when I was drinking) I told him I’d try it and later that night I experienced the wonders of ear candling.
I got out the candles and read the instructions. If I remember correctly, I was supposed to cut a hole, just big enough for the small end of the candle to fit through, in a pie plate. Then stick the small end of the candle in my ear and light the large end of the candle.
My problem was that I didn’t have a pie plate. I didn’t have any type of plate other than dinner plates so I improvised.
Now let me say that I just figured that the pie plate was only to protect you from any gently falling ash from the top of the candle. I had no idea that it was, in essence, a barrier to protect you from lava.
Any way, since I didn’t have a pie plate I took a small plastic cup and cut a hole in the bottom of it. I laid down on the floor and told my wife to light the end of the candle. Soon thereafter is when the problems started.
I don’t know if I moved my head or what, but the part of the candle that was on fire broke from the rest of the candle and fell down to where the pie plate would have been IF I would have had a pie plate. Since I didn’t have a pie plate and since the small plastic cup that I did have was much smaller than a pie plate, the flaming piece of goodness missed the barrier and fell onto my arm.
My wife was in a position so that she couldn’t see where the fire fell. She just knew that it had fallen. I, on the other hand, knew immediately where it fell, but it posed a dilemma. If I screamed that it was on my arm I knew she would freak out and knock it from my arm onto the carpet. Also, I was scared to move because if I did it would fall onto the carpet. So, remaining as calm as I could, I simply asked her to hand me the cup and scooped the piece of candle into the cup.
Needless to say, when my wife saw my arm I had to listen to much ranting and raving, but I didn’t have to replace any carpet. I still have a scar on my arm.
Except for burning my arm ear candling didn’t do anything for me so my advice is to save your money.
There are websites devoted to earwax removal and zit popping, but not cool stories of daring like this.
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Another homeo-pathetic exercise of futility.
To each his own.
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I can't believe I've never heard of ear candling. This must be an east coast thing.
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I hope they don't start describing how this method can cure constipation.
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There are websites devoted to earwax removal and zit popping, but not cool stories of daring like this.
Yeah, that's what we'll call it. A cool story of daring. Much better than acting like a dumb ass.
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I can't believe I've never heard of ear candling. This must be an east coast thing.
Centuries ago, it was blood-letting.
Hippies now days, stuff burning candles in their ears to draw out the evil phlegm.
While not as messy as blood-letting, it's far more entertaining.
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Didn't Elton John do a song called Candle In Your Ear?
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Didn't Elton John do a song called Candle In Your Ear?
No, I think that was "Candle In Your Rear". :whistling:
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Why would PhDD ask this question? :???: :wtf2: She can just go to Google. So much for being smart. :mental:
Candle in the ear is meant to remove earwax.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/ear-candling/AN02086
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I'm all for the primitives sticking candles in their ears, their ass, their mouth, whatever.
If you can get them to stick enough candles in their person and then throw them in a dark room, they could function as an incredibly ugly and ineffective candelabra; at least until they catch the drapes or the cat on fire.
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Why would PhDD ask this question? :???: :wtf2: She can just go to Google. So much for being smart. :mental:
Maybe she was fishing for something else. Being I have never heard of ear candling, I would hate to hear what "something else" could be where DUmmies and candles are concerned.
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Why would PhDD ask this question? :???: :wtf2: She can just go to Google. So much for being smart. :mental:
Candle in the ear is meant to remove earwax.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/ear-candling/AN02086
Swimmers ear, I never got from the salt water but did as a kid in the fresh water lakes.
A cap full of hydrogen peroxide cleared that up for me.
Not that long ago we had hearing tests every 2 years by our company and the last test I had I was sent to an ear specialist, their tests showed I had a big problem with one ear.
Here is where the fun began, I went into an office that had this interesting machine, very high tech that sent a probe into my ear and I could watch it on a computer screen.
What was found was a very small piece of wax that had adhered to my ear drum. The probe tried to remove it but it was very painfull. This piece of wax no bigger then a pencil point was interfering with the ear drum vibrating. I was sent home with an RX for ear cleaning but never used it. I took advise from old time family members and used warm olive oil to soften it and let it drain out on its own.
Now I was raised to never put anything in my ears but my elbow. No Q tips or to use the bulb ear flushes as to force water that was not sterile into the ear could cause all kinds of havoc.
I have heard about the candling method, but I am surprised that people from the time it was invented did not place leaches in the ear also.
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Maybe she was fishing for something else. Being I have never heard of ear candling, I would hate to hear what "something else" could be where DUmmies and candles are concerned.
Sticking things in inappropriate places is one of the pillars of being a primitive.
To hear they do something disgusting and degrading to the human body and being surprised would be the equivalent of being surprised to hear a cow go "moo", or a dog go "woof".
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I took advise from old time family members and used warm olive oil to soften it and let it drain out on its own.
Like you, I use olive oil for earwax.
I use garlic oil to heal up painful outer ear infections. Pour it in. Plug it with cotton. Sleep. Wake up and bathe it away. Infection and pain gone.
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My wife had me try the ear candle thing a few years ago. Once was enough.
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