Ear Candling

Americans in general are a clean people. They like to spruce up even the hardest-to-reach places on their bodies. This is a country where dental floss comes in several flavors and people willingly engage in colonic irrigation to get all the nasties out of their large intestines--and where otherwise smart folk habitually ignore all warnings and put Q-Tips too far into their ears. But apparently Q-Tips aren't quite enough. The newest instrument for getting the muck out of that pesky ear canal is a lighted candle.

Candling, sometimes called coning, is today's, ahem, hottest natural treatment to remove wax from ears...

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