Pain in the Ear: This is a very severe disturbance; the patient becomes highly restless and demands an immediate relief.
A household remedy that is advised is: take a fistful of neem leaves and boil them in a ser of water. Place a few drops of this water in the paining ear when it is rather warm itself. The patient will get relief quite soon.
Oozing of the Ear: To stop such a oozing once it starts often proves difficult to secure. A remedy advised here is: mix equal quantities of neem leaf juice and honey. Make this mixture luke warm and place a few drops of it in the ear. There will ensue a definite relief after a few days.
Insect fall within the Ear: Occasionally when some insects like ants, wasps and the like enter the ear, they will cause great distress and often considerable amount of pain.
Put a little amount of salt in the neem leaf juice, warm it slightly and place a few drops in the ear in a lukewarm or slightly hot condition. The insects would die and may fall out by themselves or may be easily removed.
Hard of Hearing; Deafness: These will improve by an application of about two drops of warm neem oil regularly for some time In the ear once in the morning and then at evening.
Some compound or multiple drug preparations for afflictions of the ear are now given:
For Ear Diseases in General: Take 5 tolas of green neem leaves, 6 mashas of copper sulphate, grind them very fine and make the mixture into small tablets. Heat a small quantity of any sweet edible oil in a pan till it starts giving a crackling sound.
When this reaches a maximum degree, float a few tablets prepared as above in the oil, remove the pan from the fire when the tablets and the oil from a homogenous mixture and then filter it through a piece of cloth.
Apply this to the ear when an occasion arises. This oil is said to be effective in all diseases of the ear, such as pain, dull pain, pus formation, lesions and so on.
Take 5 tolas of mustard oil, char 3 tolas of neem leaf in it, clean the oil, place a small quantity of powdered turmeric in this, cnar again and then clean. Mix a quantity of honey in this final product now and store it then in a bottle. When the occasion arises, make it lukewarm and apply 3 – 4 drops in the ear. This is also seen to be remarkably effective in all afflictions of the ear.
Take unripe fruits of neem, cook them in neem oil to such a degree that they become blackened. Pulverise these blackened fruits in the same oil till both become an ointment. Add a small quantity of puffed up copper sulphate and an equal quantity of puffed up borax.
Store this in a clean and small tin container. Apply it at the aching ear daily. If possible the unripe fruits of neem can also be eaten along with this treatment. This is advised in all, preferably dull and persistent, ear-aches.