Posted: Mar 13, 2011 12:44 pm
Animavore wrote:Ben Goldacre talks about ear-candling in his book Bad Science. Apparently you end up with a brown substance that is supposedly your ear wax with all your toxins taken out with it.
Apparently there is a very simple experiment which can be done to see if the substance is earwax or not. You bring it up to your mouth and lick it.
That's very similar to anal candeling. I don't recomend testing the resulting substance in the same way however.