Fish are a man's best friend

Updated 09.31 Tue Aug 19 2008
Keywords: beauty therapists, plant, equatic life, foot, doctor fish, garra rufa, experience, rough, soles, dead, skin, care, hands, feet, China, India, psoriasis, treatment, fish, pedicure, manicure, Turkey, Singapore, Japan

Fish are providing the treatments at a new age beauty salon in India.

Already popular in China, Japan, Singapore, the fish spa or pedicure has now made it to India's southern city of Chennai.

The work of the garra rufa, or doctor fish, leaves leaves hands and feet looking shiny and smooth

The treatment involves sticking your hands or feet into a tub of warm water and having numerous small fish sucks away the dead skin.

The work of the garra rufa, or doctor fish, leaves hands and feet looking shiny and smooth.

And don't worry about getting bitten, because the fish do not have any teeth.

The procedure originated in Turkey where it was used to provide temporary relief for patients with psoriasis.

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