A crude awakening: Bathing in OIL is touted as health cure in Azerbaijan spa - despite doctors warning it could give you CANCER

cure her painful condition.

Sulfiya, a Russian woman in her 60s, has travelled to Azerbaijan's north-western city of Naftalan in the hope that crude oil baths at a local sanatorium will end her years of suffering from polyarthritis, a disease affecting the joints.

'This is so pleasant,' she enthuses, despite the reek of engine oil.

Her naked dip in oil heated to just above body temperature lasts 10 minutes, after which an attendant scrapes the brown oil off her skin and sends her into a shower.

Spa staff regularly tell of the legend of the healing properties of Naftalan's 'miraculous oil'. They say the powers were discovered by accident when a camel left to die near a pool of oil was cured




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Ugh, it looks like diarrhoea

Looks...um...weird and oddly nasty.

It must stink to high heaven. Not to mention getting it all off.