Ear picking is a folk expression meaning ear pulling. The tools used for ear picking are usually rather rudimentary, commonly used are bamboo paper, ear digging spoons, chicken feather sticks, goose feather sticks, etc. At present, it is not recommended that patients go to informal places such as the roadside for ear picking for these main reasons: First, non-professional ear picking can easily lead to damage to the wall of the ear canal and the eardrum, which can easily lead to ear infection and bleeding. Second, most of the equipment used for non-professional ear harvesting is not sterilized, which can easily lead to mutual bacterial or fungal infections between patients, which can easily induce fungal otitis externa, chronic otitis externa and other related diseases. If the patient has cerumen in the ear canal, it is recommended to go to a professional ENT hospital for examination. If the patient has soft cerumen, it is recommended to go to the hospital for 1-2 months to have the ear canal cleaned by a professional doctor because soft cerumen is difficult to discharge by itself; if the cerumen in the ear canal is dry cerumen, you can pull out the ear by yourself or go to the hospital to have the cerumen flushed out by a doctor with an attractor or saline.