Overview

Cerumen, or earwax, is essential to maintaining healthy ears. It keeps your ears clean and shields them from debris, infection, and dust. Despite its benefits, Earwax can cause issues like ear pain, itchiness, and hearing loss if too much accumulates. Healthcare providers can assist with earwax removal when needed.

Causes

Earwax blockages occur when,

• Excessive wax production or inadequate clearing occurs. 

• Dry or hard earwax 

• A lot of ear hair

• Narrow ear canals 

• Frequent earplug use 

• This often results from attempts to remove earwax using cotton swabs.

Symptoms

Earwax blockage can cause symptoms like 

• Earache 

• Fullness, pain 

• Hearing loss 

• Tinnitus

• Ear itchiness 

• Discharge or odor coming from your ears

• Ear infection and dizziness.

Ayurvedic View

Karna mala vruddhi- there is shabda vaha sroto dushti, which means this condition occurs in karna (ear), that which is responsible for shabda grahana (hearing), due to agni mandya (low digestion), there is saama kapha dosha prakopa (vitiating kapha) which does sanga (block, obstruct) the flow of shabda in shabda vaha srotas which is aakash mahabhoota predominant, this shows symptoms of excess wax in ear. Ayurveda way of approach is to increase agni (metabolism), bring dosha from aama awastha to nirama awastha (not causing disease), and improve the functioning of the ear by ayurvedic panchakarma treatment and local treatment done to the ear.

Ayurvedic Treatments

Dhoopanam   Prakshalanam   Karnaporanam   Virechanam

Naturopathy Treatments

Enema   Athapasthana   Ear steaming   Kriyas