I guess I've been living a sheltered life and did not realize it.

I would never use newspaper or anything else. The ear candles are purpose made and burn slowly and not very big flame....also, ever do ear candling unsupervised.

I'm going to leverage social media to make "butt candling" a popular treatment for hemorrhoids.

Geez, was I surprised

I'd get on the horn with your HMO and asked to be reassigned.

Was drain ten ounces of blood in order to rebalance your four humours, and then provide a spoonful of turpentine in a comfrey tea bolus.

But I'm glad you came out okay anyway.

with this is from "The Onion".

"I want to live on a smarter planet..." If you find it, please include me as a charity case.

I was dating this cutie (later to become my wife ) and her mother told me about this "remedy" to remove ear wax. Since my honey's father was complaining about ear problems, Mom sat him down and did just that - a cone of newspaper stuck into his ear and then lit it!

Claimed that it worked - but NEVER let them use it on me!

Have done it many times...

...just irrigate the ear with some warm water)

He said he was doing it because his ear itched.

He also whipped my butt with a razor strop when my behavior didn't match his expectations.

She’d rub it on my chest and then put a dab on my tongue and tell me to swallow.

I’m lucky I made it out alive.

drinks it when he gets a bad cold or flu. I have seen him so it many times. Yes, lucky to be alive he is.

I've read about the candle thing but I'm not going to do it. I've found the otc ear cleaning solution works fine.


Peace

It can even vary from street to street...When you think you have seen it all, there is "more" ..just like your story. And this idea "that there is "more" really has no limitations. Why no limitations?...because there is "more" . and I love your story. Thank You for sharing this story with us...

burning newspaper in the ear? Phht!

"Why did you stick newspaper in your ear and set it on fire?"
"Because it felt so good when I stopped."

I sense a book -- Clinic Anecdotes -- about some of the cases you've had to handle. You could do that without violating confidentiality if you changed the names to protect the stupid.

-- Mal

pinky finger or my elbow in my ear.

Constipation.

You must be a saint!

He just did something stupid.

the entire time I knew him. A doctor, in about the year 2005, removed cigarette papers from his ears. They had been crammed in for a concert in the 1970s, and forgotten.

No wonder the ear candles hadn't worked.