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ear candling

noun

ear candling

noun

Etymology From ear candle + -ing.

1

Alternative medicine, Medicine, Sciences An alternative medicine practice supposed to assist the natural clearing of earwax from a person's ear, involving lighting one end of a hollow candle and placing the other end in the ear canal.

Synonyms
ear coning, thermal-auricular therapy

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.