Anyone ever try ear candles for better listening?

True story:
an aquaintence of mine is into all sorts of new age remedys.
After trying this, he convinced himself that ear candling would be beneficial for the whole family and his mom reluctantly agreed just to shut him up.

After his 'remedy' managed to set her hair on fire, the experiment was discontinued.

So how does this work?

Does the candle get your ear canal hot enough to liquefy the wax? If you lay on your side, and the bottom of the candle is in your ear, and the candle flame is on the other end above your ear, and heat rises; how does it get hot below the candle?

Is it simply a matter of suction? This small hollow candle creates enough suction to draw sticky wax out of your ear?

Curious minds want to know!

Put me in the "no way in hell can this work" crowd.

Now before you laugh too hard, this guy is one of the most intelligent guys I know, and swears by these methodologies.

So? Howard Hughes was also very smart and died alone in a hotel room because he was afraid of germs.

If anyone tries Danlib1's idea you should post it and let us know how much better your system sounds.

Boa2 writes:

Moving toward the opposite end of the network, I too have had high colonics. It helps a lot with food allergies. Only downside is I can no longer rebut those who accuse me of being full of it.

I think you have it backwards - you can completely rebut those who say you are full of it - because you know for a fact that you aren't!

Regards,

"....after all those years of telling doctors that there was something going on in my left ear, Ear-Clear found and removed the culprit. After 4 or 5 refills using the Master Blaster for the first time in my left ear, not only did a serious clump of wax get expelled, but also a 'twig' about an inch long (see picture). Must have been in my ear for 15 years!" Tony F.
(You can click on this picture to enlarge it.)
http://www.earclear.com/after%20all%20these%20years.jpg

This might affect you hearing!!!