ear candling

English

Etymology

From ear candle +‎ -ing.

Noun

ear candling (uncountable)

1. (alternative medicine) 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

Anagrams

• calendaring