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10,000 candles rolled and
sent to clear Japanese ears

ARE you listening? It's
fair to say most of us take
our ears for granted,

HOME BASE
By Michael Becker

We hang things on them
and we usually allow too
much noise to enter in. Hf we
clean ther, it's mostly by way
ofa quick cotton swab job,

In. Out.

Check the wax on the stick

_and on we go with our day.

. Ann Larsen has thought a
bit more about ear cleaning.
She's an ear. candler. She
makes the candles and she
uses them.
In ‘fact she's’ just shipped
10,000 hand-rolled candles to
the Japanese.

-” Larsen’s home-based busi-.
“ness is May 3rd Enterprises,
, She’s’on Hyannis Drive in

"North Vancouver.

Wax draws out wax.

It’s actually a very venera-_
ble application developed by

the ancient Egyptians. Many
cultures candle the ears.

“T understand in India you’

about 11-

can walk down the streets and
there are any number of prac-
titioners cleaning ears and
candling.” Larsen said.

She heard of it first about a
year ago when she was taking
a Women in Focus course
through North Shore
Continuing Education. “One
of the women was talking
about it and it really interested
me. I've always had problems

with my ears and it interested

me immensely.”

Larsen once dealt with her
own wax build-up by going to.
the doctor to have her ears:

sytinged’every year. Now she. |

likes to be candled every six to
eight weeks.

The car candling experi-
ence is said to clean deep into
the sinuses, “I've heard of a
woman who took one of my
workshops and she candled
her husband and she noticed a.
difference

to clear the sinuses,” she said..
The candles are hollow and

plate Jined with foil, The plate
deflects heat. A tt candle ¢ cre- °.

in his” voice... It.
tnight ever: be good for singers

inches_.long. A
- tapered candle is placed gently |
into: the ear through a paper °

ates a chimney effect, drawing
up debris and impurities from
the ear.

The candle wick — is
trimmed as it burns down to
about three inches above the
cur, A session with two cun-
dies per cars takes about an

hour. People have: “in
candles drawing out. not’ just
ear wax but: fleas,

‘Dennis D. Robin :

has been suspended fom membership in the

Institute of Chartered Accountants of E Britisti

Columbia.

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A person who is under suspensic nist
stariding and cannot use the designatic
or in any way hold himself out a be i a

suspension, os

maker Ann Larson displays: one of the
candies she makes. When iit and placed in a person's
ar, the: heat. fromthe. hollow candice draws out war -

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