It’s holiday season. Travelling by plane can take affect on your ears. How can Hopi Ear Candles help you? 

Ear candling, also called ear coning or thermal-auricular therapy, is a pseudoscientific alternative medicine practice claiming to improve general health and well-being by lighting one end of a hollow candle and placing the other end in the ear canal.

What is Hopi ear candles?

The procedure is performed by beauticians, or complimentary therapists.  It involves inserting a hopi ear candle into the ear with the person laying on their side. The hopi ear candle itself is hollow and made of cotton or muslin cloth which has been soaked in either beeswax or paraffin. They are sometimes scented with honey and herbs. The opposite end of the hopi ear candle is then lit supposedly creating a vacuum in the ear by warming the air inside which then rises and escapes (chimney effect) drawing out the ear wax in the process.

A session of using hopi ear candling typically takes around 30 minutes to perform depending upon whether you are having one or both ears treated. Perfect for the holiday season, just before and after flying.

What can it treat? 

There are no clinically proven benefits of hopi ear candles in the removal of ear wax. However, some people are known to find the whole experience relaxing and therapeutic. Practitioners of hopi ear candles also claim that it can alleviate and cure symptoms such as:

• Congested sinuses
• Irritation in the ears
• Tinnitus
• Rhinitis
• Migraines
• Relive pressure from flying

Hopi ear candling must not be performed in people who have a perforated eardrum or grommet, mastoid cavity, cleft palate, foreign object inside the ear canal or have had an outer or middle-ear infection in the last 6 weeks. 

I’ve had a series of Hopi-ear Candle treatments which have helped to clear congestion and improve hearing quality.
It’s a relatively quick and easy treatment carried out in the capable hands of Katie.
I would definitely have it done again. Sarah 2022