Ear candling in cancer therapy
Ear candling, an ancient ritual and healing art which formed an integral part of cultures such as Egyptians, Aztecs and North American Indians, has found its way into our culture and alternative medicine. Having "rediscovered" it from the Native Americans, it has captured the imagination of many through its amazing effects and its simplicity. People all over the world are astonished how different they feel when they have been "candled". And the growing interest, together with the absolute safety of the ear candling process itself, has allowed a great variety of people to be exposed. This in turn delivers many personal experiences and testimonies, including those suggesting that it is of great benefit to cancer sufferers. But don't we hear that about every so-called-new treatment? Maybe so, but as regards ear candling we can actually explain how and why it will improve your health, even when you are suffering such a devastating disease. But first, we will have to enlighten you on the disease process which leads to cancer. And you thought that nobody knows how someone gets cancer! Think again, it has been known for a long time; and at the same time it has been vehemently denied because accepting this knowledge would turn our whole medical culture bottoms up. The process which leads to disease has been known to man since the dawn of time, long before cancer was "invented". How people get ill has not and can not change throughout the ages, the only thing that changes is the expression of the disease. So what is this disease process which has been written up in ancient texts across the globe, surviving time and cultures?The Disease Process
In spite of common belief no disease happens quickly, no disease is acute; some expressions may be, but the process has to have been going on for quite some time before the medical profession recognises it as a "disease". Naming and labelling is extremely important to doctors, it is part of their prevention strategy as well as their therapeutic approach.However, diseases are caused by a persistent imbalance within the system. Rather than naming the disease, it is about recognising imbalances and correcting them, before they damage the system and make us ill. Because all diseases are caused this way, it follows that essentially there are no "new" diseases, only variations of the same basic disease-causing factors.
Imbalance within the system, meaning what exactly?
Well, the system (body and mind) has an unbreakable contract to keep you well, fit and healthy. It has a complete and accurate knowledge of every cellular function, every biochemical activity and every aspect of our energy system. Every second it performs billions of actions without ever making a major mistake. (Fancy our computers doing that!) If a tiny thing is not entirely right it will recognise and rectify it straight away. Trust your system to be 100% committed to your health and well-being. It will do the very best that is possible, given the material it has been handed by you. And that is where most of the time the struggle starts! For the sake of simplicity we will consider this "imbalance" as any kind of deviation from "the norm", or from what the system considers normal. This deviation we call toxic. A load of toxins puts the system out of balance, a prelude to ill-health. So, a toxin is per definition: anything which, at that particular moment in time, the system does not need in order to maintain its health balance. These toxins can enter the system from outside or can be entirely produced inside the system as part of the way it handles whatever life throws at it. Toxins, created internally as well as those interring the system from the outside, can be unnatural products that are alien to the system; they can be inappropriate or excessive items even though they are natural; wrong timing, and wrong combination of actions can also result in toxins. These toxins now accumulate in the places where they have been collected and/or produced, mostly the digestive tract. These cause very few minor disturbances such as very occasional distension, constipation, acidity, anger, indigestion, heaviness, or fatigue. As more and more toxins collect the symptom pattern will increase both in frequency and severity. However, all the symptoms are vague and are quickly dismissed because everybody complains of those things and you just have to live with it.As the collection site is getting fuller an overflow will occur into other parts of the body causing a different set of symptoms. Depending on the organs and tissues that are affected one can have complaints such as dry skin, stiff joints, headaches, cough, constipation, lack of energy, swollen glands, fever, vomiting, dizzy spells, diarrhoea, tummy pains, etc. These symptoms occur more persistently and doctors will now start to take notice. However, all the medical tests will come back as normal.
Those sites that are the weakest and most vulnerable will suffer the most. These particular locations will start to show signs of being unable to cope with the increasing amount of toxins coming their way. Symptoms will now be fixed in certain positions, corresponding with the troubled organ or tissues and it is at this stage that the doctor declares you have a particular disease such as asthma, diabetes, arthritis, cancer or whatever it may happen to be. Finally we can all be happy because they have found out what the matter is with you. Congratulations, you have just graduated from hypochondriac to patient!
Further accumulation of toxins will induce a more widespread breakdown of tissues which is generally known as the disease complications.
Cancer
Cancer has many causes, as we all know, including our toxic environment, devitalised foods (produced and presented by the food industry), sedentary lifestyle (lack of appropriate exercise), and lack of spiritual purpose or effort in life. Its basis often is suppressed emotion or emotional stagnation, which causes accumulation of toxic material, the manifestation in physical (chemical) form of feelings. This was well known in the early days of Western Medicine when cancer was described as a disease of melancholy or black bile, which also translates as suppressed emotions. Hence, physical remedial measures are usually not enough to restore health, as our current track record in cancer treatment confirms.The build up of toxins happens because the digestive fire and other energy sources are low. When there is little energy available to digest and absorb food, a rotting process starts from within the food in much the same way as it would when you leave food items for any length of time. The fermentation is responsible for the bloatedness, the distension of the abdomen, for constipation and/or diarrhoea. These rotten products - toxins - have to be dealt with by the system which quickly makes them safe and "stores" them. As there is almost a constant influx of toxins because of the continuing low inner energy, the accumulation grows larger almost by the day resulting in major stress on the system, which eventually will lead to a collapse when it is no longer able to cope with the workload.
Effective treatment as well as prevention has to concentrate on the increase of inner energy and digestive fire. No treatment can be effective without it. Ear candling as a treatment has proven itself time and again as a very efficient method of increasing the quantity and quality of "inner energy".
Ear Candling
How can sticking a hollow candle in your ear and burning it do you any good at all?
The crucial factor is the heat that is generated by the flame. There is no direct heat exchange between the candle and the body (the ear) of the person as the bottom of the candle never even gets warm. Yet the heat on the top of the candle is just as important as the heat in the open fire burning in the winter. You do not need to sit in the flames in order to absorb and benefit from the heat produced by the flames. The reason for this is radiation; the air around the fire warms up and transports that heat to the air which is in contact with your body. As the air immediately surrounding you warms up you become warm and feel cosy. In a similar way, the fire on top of the candle heats the air inside the hollow candle. This creates a movement of air as the top part of the air column is much warmer than the lower regions. The warmer air starts to spiral downwards towards the bottom of the candle (observed by anybody who has ever done ear candling), taking with it the energy from the fire rather than just the warmth from the air. In the example of the open winter fire the air moves linear from the fire to your body and creates a direct heat transfer. In ear candling the air moves spirally whereby the air molecules in that particular motion transfer the heat (temperature, kinetic energy) from the top into an ever increasing vortical movement, which cools the air but highly charges it. So, the temperature of the air moving quickly down inside the candle is cool but the energy is high. When this air now comes close to the layer of air-body contact it releases that energy into the body. It is this energy input which will make all the difference to the state of health the body is in.Yet another view of how ear candling transfers healing energy to the human body is to draw an assimile with the ancient Chinese practice of moxabustion. A type of treatment performed by acupuncturists to stimulate energy into systems of deficiency, creating an improved level of health function in the corresponding area. The herb mugwort is compressed into a finger thick cylinder shape, of which one end is set on fire. This end is held either proximal to the area requiring stimulation or over an acupuncture point relating to the area. Ear candling is equally about having a flame, which creates and transfers energy, close to an area and acupuncture points relating to areas in need of healing. The region in which the ear candle is burning (the ear) is a complete acupuncture point diagram of the entire body in the shape of an upside down foetus. One could easily conclude that there would be a marvellous influx of energy into the whole of the acupuncture meridian system.
Methods of studying the effects of ear candling
The authors have used various methods of research to gather a clearer understanding of which systems are affected by ear candling and to what extent. The primary methods are active observation of clinic results and improvements in a variety of health conditions, Kinesiology Muscle Testing (Touch For Health) and Live Blood Analysis.Live Blood Cell Analysis is a marvellous tool to use in regard of treatment studies. It clearly shows in an almost snapshot manner the state of health function of our being as well as revealing health tendencies a person has experienced through various periods of life. One observes under very high magnification the blood and its constituents on a life one bloodcell thick layer preparation. The health of our blood cells, the presence of foreign pathogens and the activity level of the cells, in particular the immune cells, can be directly evaluated. The cells of the immune system become much more active following ear candling treatment. They seem more able to sense the presence of foreign toxic material, move towards it with much greater speed and accuracy, and engulf the material with much greater ease. This fascinating direct observation helps to confirm why so many people note a rapid improvement after ear candling. These visual findings have been confirmed in more detail through muscle testing. Kinesiology Muscle Testing (Touch for Health) is utilised by health professionals all over the world. The application of muscle testing is done by the practitioner pressing on the clients limb to ascertain if that particular muscle holds steady (locked) or lets go (unlocked). As every cell and every part of the body holds all information about everything that the system has ever experienced, the muscle will also have this "data base" at its disposal. The scope of information gained through muscle testing is only limited by the knowledge and skills of the practitioner and the desire to unearth true answers. It is thus that kinesiology confirms that not only the function of the white blood cells has become more precise and effective, but also that other aspects of the immune system have improved tremendously. All lymphocytes', phagocytes', T-cell and B-cell activity is more targeted and direct, as well as improvements in the function of the spleen and thymus glands. The whole of the immune system is more alert, more mobile and more assertive after each ear candling session.
