Ear Coning is simply a catalyst to clear the respiratory system

• It helps sinuses clear
• It helps drain lymph glands
• It vacuums off nerve endings in the ear canal
• It vacuums out the Eustachian tube

A wonderful side effect is deep relaxation…it stimulates the anti stress acupuncture point in the auditory canal. You see its’ effect on hyper active kids as well as adults. Coning will also help the body to move out excess wax deposits. Earwax becomes dry and leaves the canal in tiny balls. You can help the process by using warm mullein flower oil or olive oil. Soak a cotton ball and tamp it in your ear canal while lying down on your side the evening before you have a coning done, 2 days would be even better.

You can leave the cotton in the ear overnight to keep the oil from dripping out. Massaging under the ear and down the side of the throat also helps loosen up dried debris.
The big show is not opening the cone (unless you have a microscope), it is the renewed clarity, sensitivity and focus you get after a coning. The deep nerve relaxation is pretty amazing. The sense of release is unlike anything else. Body workers and chiropractors have noted that their work holds better after the client has been coned.

It’s all in the experience. Ask the client to observe how they feel before the candling session. Ask again after. If the client feels no difference, what proof of benefits can you offer? If the clients’ head feels lighter, if all their senses sharpen up, if their allergies are relieved, if their earache is gone, what do they need to read? Most people do feel great improvement.

We can do a lot to help ourselves. Digestion and respiratory troubles are directly connected.
The link is the mucous membranes. Mucous membrane inflammation in the stomach can cause catarrh, which is acute or chronic inflammation of the mucous membranes with hyper secretion. Lots of mucous. Chronic inflammation of the Eustachian tube, blocked with mucous, can lead to progressive deafness. Also, fluid in the Eustachian tube creates lower pressure in the tube. Outside pressure will push the eardrum inwards causing moderate deafness, buzzing noises, pain, discomfort and the sensation of the ear being full.
Do whatever you can to detoxify your body.
Whatever you do to release stress is priceless.

Questions and answers:

Q: What’s in the cone? Is that all from my ears?
A: The short answer is no. The popular consensus is that it is a mix of earwax buildup with candle wax that has begun to go up (aspirate). It can also be elimination of epidermal buildup.

Here comes the long answer: You can burn a cone by itself and get one to one and a half inches of wax and powder (smoke residue). If you want to judge the results of the coning by the contents of the cone it can be confusing. You have three choices. Ignore the contents of the cone, use your own microscope or send it to a lab to get your own analysis. Lab reports have found heavy metals and all manner of pollutants from the client’s environment in that “cone wax”. The earwax question can be confusing because it is inconsistent. An ear cone can have no wax in it or 6 inches. At 6 inches everything makes sense. Zero wax is harder to explain.

Zero wax can mean that the ear canal is so impacted that it would take many sessions to loosen up the debris. Warm Mullein flower oil or olive oil in the ear canal is very effective for keeping excess earwax from becoming hard plugs. If you work in a dusty, loud, hot, smoky, steamy workplace or in construction, painting, or hairdressing, using oil regularly will help prevent accumulation and hardened wax deposits.

If you have a microscope you can make your own observations. I don’t have one but I’ve heard reports of chaff, spiral worms, living fungus and black mold being observed in the debris.
There are other factors that make a coning work. Coning stimulates the discharge of secretions and the evacuation of waste, impurities and pathogenic layers as well.

Q: What do I do about tickling, clicking or itching deep in the ear?
A: After a coning, your body continues doing what you asked it to do. It is cleaning out your respiratory tract. The waste is moving out … slowly. Warm Mullein oil soaked cotton ball tamped in the ear before bed works to soothe irritations and calm those nerve endings down. You may also need another ear coning to help the process along. Muscle test (kinesiology) or use a pendulum to check. If you’re unfamiliar with muscle testing, try “Your Body Dosen’t Lie” by John Diamond M.D. (1979), or any other book on the subject. It’s very simple.

Q: Can I cone a child and should I just use part of the cone?
A: Very young children do not secrete earwax, but they can get earaches. Their Eustachian tubes are more horizontal so fluid can get trapped. You can cone children from a preemie on up. Use a whole cone as usual. You may crimp the small end a bit to fit into a small ear, just make sure you have plenty of smoke coming out. Do both ears for energetic balance. If a child has continual problems with earaches have a physician check for allergies and food sensitivities. Many kids have a dairy, egg or wheat intolerance, which cause excess mucous secretions.
We’ve had reports of children with downs syndrome having great relief from regular conings. Once a month or every 6 weeks as needed. Once again, muscle test for frequency.

Q: Can it help my Grandma with her hearing?
A: It’s worth a try. As we age, secretions and epidermal debris may build up and dull the area. Use warm mullein or olive oil to loosen and lubricate the ear canal before candling. Many have had success in improving their hearing. This is an ancient folk remedy - no guarantees.
I candled a lady in her 90’s on her bed. After the session her daughter and son-in-law were at the other end of the large bedroom speaking softly to one another. The lady started conversing with them until her knee touched the hearing aids she’d taken out before the session. She realized she could hear her daughter without her hearing aids and her face flashed through some visible “whoa’s”. It was really sweet. I wish I’d had a camera.

Q: How many conings should I do initially?
A: Three. The first coning starts the healing process. The first coning removes the top layer of debris, which allows the body to push up more. You wait 3 to 7 days, to give your body a chance to do the job. The third coning completes what was kicked up over the last two. Every 3 days would be best. This is the general consensus among our group of practitioners when we started coning 12 years ago. I’ve found the same advice from Canadian practitioners. After the first three, you can muscle test to see if and when more is required. I believe the body does it’s best to make us comfortable. If we live in a city and it’s too loud, the body dulls our nerve endings to make us comfy. When we want that sharpness back this is a non-invasive, relaxing way to get there

Q: How much is too much candling?
A: The most accurate course of action is to muscle test or use a pendulum. But, if you want a general idea, here it is.
General guidelines:
Maintenance- one to two treatments a month
Prevention- two to three treatments in fall and winter
Acute cases- one to three treatments a day for a week
Chronic cases- one to three treatments a week for several months

Q: Are there any reasons why a person cannot be coned?
A: If a person has a broken or missing eardrum, coning would cause them to sit up and cough. It wouldn’t actually hurt them, but it would be useless.

I know a woman who had been coned and commented about vomiting and tasting the mint in the cone. I recommended she forget about doing more, but she countered with something interesting. She remembered her doctor telling her years ago that she had small perforations in her eardrum. She kept her next appointment because it was the first time in 5 years that she had clear passage in her sinuses. She was willing to put up with the discomfort for the greater relief it afforded her.
I have a friend who’d been operated on for Otosclerosis years ago. The stirrup and middle ear stuck together. Over the years, I’ve done probably 30 conings for him - relaxing but only minor improvement.

No contra indications for use with tubes, many have been successfully done. Often conings were done to hopefully save the day, before the “last resort”, the tubes. The studies done on tubes show that ear infections are not slowed down or prevented by them.

Q: What about candling a child with tubes?
A: From the research I’ve read, chronic otitis media or middle ear infection is the reason for a myringotomy or tubes to be recommended as a fix. In the olden days a tonsillectomy was the routine unnecessary surgery of the day. It was replaced with the myringotomy during the 80’s. It takes15 minutes to slice the eardrum and place a tiny plastic tube or grommet through the eardrum to assist drainage of fluid into the throat via the Eustachian tube. It is not a cure. Children with tubes in their ears are more likely to have continuing problems with ear infections. The tubes eventually fall out and degrade and the operation has to be repeated in 30% of them.

Numbers of studies have shown no differences between non-antibiotic treatment, ear tubes, ear tubes with antibiotics, and antibiotics alone. Children not receiving antibiotics did have fewer recurrences than those receiving antibiotics. The same results were documented for the risk of infection spreading to the mastoid and brain, which is a risk. Standard antibiotic and surgical procedures are not statistically effective.

Eustachian tube dysfunction is the cause of media otitis (middle ear infection). The Eustachian tube regulates gas pressure in the middle ear, protects it from nose & throat secretions, bacteria and clears fluid from the middle ear. Swallowing causes active opening of the Eustachian tube due to the action of the surrounding muscles. Small children have smaller Eustachian tubes and closer to horizontal. Obstruction of the Eustachian tube leads to serous (fluid from the blood) buildup and bacterial infection and can be caused by allergic blockage with mucous. No bacteria are present in more than half of chronic Eustachian tube blockage and about a third of acute ear problems which makes antibiotics inappropriate as treatment.

Allergy as the major cause of chronic otitis media has been firmly established in the medical literature. Most studies show 85-93% of these children have allergies to both inhalants & food (70% to both). The allergic reaction causes inflammation of the tube and nose. The swelling causes swallowing when both mouth & nose are closed forcing air & secretions into the middle ear. During an ear infection it is not possible to determine the allergen. The most common allergic foods should be eliminated from the diet i.e. milk and dairy products, eggs, wheat, corn, oranges, and peanut butter. Sugar, honey, dried fruit, concentrated fruit juice etc. should also be eliminated since concentrated simple carbohydrates inhibit the immune system. If many allergens are detected, a 4- day rotation diet is necessary. The most common allergens like dairy, eggs and wheat should be eliminated. A good doctor can do a RAST allergy test or whatever works best and pinpoint the problems and help you.

In several clinical trials, over the counter decongestants have shown to be as effective as antibiotics in treating ear infections by keeping the Eustachian tube open.
To conclude, any help you can get from alternative sources can arrest the problem surgery won’t solve, namely proper diet.

Q: Can I cone myself?
A: Not recommended. It is physically possible but not easily done. You need to relax to get the best results. Pick a person or practitioner who has a calm demeanor to do a coning for you. You need to feel safe so you can let go and let the practitioner be in charge of holding that safe space for you. You can’t be in charge of a flame and let go at the same time. That having been said…. I was giving a coning workshop when a woman spoke up, “I know you said not to cone ourselves but I had to. I had no one else I could trust. My kids would have me locked up if they saw me doing this. I locked my door and bolted it with a chair, put a mirror sideways and lay down with a bowl of water next to me, covered my head, and did three separate conings this way. I got rid of my allergies.” Was I to tell her she did the wrong thing? I just shut up. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

Q: Can a cough be caused by earwax?
A: “It may sound strange, but it’s true- earwax can be the cause of chronic coughing that persists for months or even years,” said Dr. Fernando Martinez, assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan. “We’ve found that impacted earwax can push against a coughing nerve in the ear canal, which stimulates the coughing reflex. Many Americans are needlessly coughing because of impacted earwax. They may cough as often as 25 or more times a minute. They mistakenly believe the cough is being caused by an allergy, cold or postnasal drip- the most common causes of chronic cough- and they often just let it go on and on. Anyone who suffers from a chronic cough- one that lasts for more than three weeks - should seek medical care. It’s a simple matter for a doctor to check visually if a patient has excessive earwax, then clean out the wax using a tiny scoop plus medicines to dissolve the wax and wash it away. Patients are often amazed to find that their chronic cough ends instantly after their ears are cleaned!” - Article by Edmond Choueke

Other Ways to Help Your Ears:

Mullein flower oil is an astringent and helps shrink and soothe inflamed tissue.
In some cases garlic oil will aggravate ear pain, so try for mullein oil minus the garlic if you’re trying the warm oil treatment and pain persists. Recommended use of mullein flower is two drops a few times daily for a week straight.

Olive oil lubricates mucous membranes. If ears are stopped up try a few drops of lukewarm olive oil in the affected ear for 5 minutes, while lying down on the opposite side. Then turn over and let it drain out. For earache try soaking a cotton ball in olive oil with five drops of lavender oil. Keep it in your ear until you feel relief.

Hot compresses and alternating hot & cold compresses stimulate circulation to the area.
Two minutes cold, five minutes hot. Repeat 7 times. If you have the gumption, you can do this in the shower. Hot and cold therapy is reported to do wonders for any physical complaint.

Clay pack – Bentonite clay, water and olive oil or mullein oil. Apply directly or put clay mixture in gauze. Place clay pack behind ear lobe area. Put a hot water bottle on top of that. Clay has incredible drawing power.

Drink Water! As much water as you can stand. It keeps mucus secretions thin. A vaporizer helps as well.

Gargle- Lemon and salt (also astringents) in warm water will shrink swollen mucus membranes. Kids must be at least 4 years old to gargle.

Nose Drops- Snort 3 drops lemon juice in each nostril with your head back

Reflexology: Press Away!
Sinus relief - squeeze the toes or the soft padding on the toes. The same goes for hands.
The ear reflexes on hands - are located on the palms just below the ring and pinky fingers.
The Eustachian tube reflex - runs along the padding of the palm at the base of the fingers.
Ear reflexes on feet - are located on the padding under small toe and next one to it.

Random Methods:

1. Place a wad of absorbent lint or a rubber eraser in the space between the tooth and the angle of the jaw, so that one is able to bite down hard. Prolong biting for several minutes several times a day.
2. Squeeze joints of the ring fingers or toes corresponding to ring fingers
3. Press teeth of aluminum comb against tips of the fingers 5 minutes at a time. Follow this with pressure against floor of mouth for 6 or 7 minutes, then against the hard palate, and last against the tongue. Some cases of deafness have been cured by this maneuver.
4. Fasten clothespin for five minutes on tip of ring finger for earache.