I have had much experience with ear infection /pain /itching. About a decade ago I had extremely itchy and uncomfortable ears, painful to lay on...enough so that I created a small disc pillow about an inch high with center cut out so ear had less pressure when laying on side (my preferred sleeping position). I was a pediatric ER nurse, so multiple docs had looked in my ears. Conclusion the same, there was fluid but no infection. Because of the fluid, the ears became itchy from pressure and i ended up with eczema externally. After about 9 months of this, I attended an herbal event, a 'Serpentine' class. During this gathering we had tea and tincture of a single herb. We tasted, smelled, and paid attention to what was going on in our mouth, body and psyche. The facilitator wrote down everything we said, and afterwards read an herbal monograph on the plant. It was like she was reading our words. It was a pleasant day had with friends and red clover. That night, however, I felt like I had the flu, or was detoxing from narcotics, or some other horrible thing (I had had a lot of red clover). In the morning, all of the fluid in my ear drained. It came and went over a month, I continued red clover, and then it was fine. The herbalist I was studying with suggested that perhaps there was a cyst in the eustatian tube and the red clover had softened and cleared it, allowing fluid to pass. Red clover is good for 'all things lumpy'. From time to time I still get eczema in my ears/ itchy ears or the occasional pain. I have found that a product called BigWave ear drops (acetic alcohol, oil, bioavailable turmeric) clears super quickly.
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