Posts Tagged ‘Fish Therapy’
Fish Spa With Garra Rufa
When your foot is inserted into a pond or aquarium, thousands of these small fish swarming your legs straight. But, you do not need to fear, because these fish will not bite and hurt. That’s what happens when you try fish spa with Garra rufa fish. Thanks to the benefits it produces, Garra rufa fish, also known as Doctor Fish. Although this therapy is relatively new in Indonesia, but its development has begun to rapidly so you can find it at the spa, beauty salon, even in the malls. How does it feel surrounded by these fish and what benefits could be obtained? Let’s acquaintance with fish Garra rufa.
Garra rufa
Original Garra rufa fish live in rivers in the Middle East countries such as Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq. Age 4 to 6 years with a maximum length of 12 cm. However, fish used for therapy is still a small fish 3-6 months old, generally has a length of 1.5 to 2 cm. This fish can live in water with a temperature of 0 to 43 degrees Celsius.
In Turkish society, a spa with this fish has been known since 200 years ago. However, this therapy is a new glow fish known in Asia, Europe and America since 2006. At the beginning of its discovery, this fish is thought to be carnivorous fish. At that time, when a group of people were on the river Kangal, Turkey, the fish are swarming at their feet. However, they do not find their feet hurt even they feel their bodies are fresher. That is, its very beginning so that the fish was finally identified as one therapy to cure diseases.
Fish Therapy
To gain the maximum benefit, you should pay attention to cleanliness and health of the pond. Does the pool have a good filter system? What are the procedures that must pass before trying this therapy?Instead, a special pool available for people with certain skin diseases which are not affiliated with the general pool so as not to infect the disease.
Before starting to insert foot into the pool, feet will be cleaned first. Purpose is to clean the feet of dust, lotions or other woods chemicals that can make a fish drunk or do not go near your feet. The first time you insert foot, you will feel a tingling due to “invasion” of this fish. Furthermore, you also can feel like a small stun stung. This small fish is happy to eat dead skin cells. However, because this species has no teeth, it will not be dangerous and hurt your feet. Instead, you will feel a sense of amusement as smoked fish. They will continue to stick to your feet while continuing to eat the dead skin cells.
Although these fish like to eat dead human skin, but they are also given other fish food and vitamins to stay healthy. This was done so that the fish remain healthy.
Benefits of Fish Spa
By eating dead skin cells that exist, then your feet will be cleaner, much more subtle and are believed to mengobat certain skin diseases such as dry eczema and psoriasis (red, scaly skin). When sucking dead skin, Garra rufa fish will also salivate an enzyme-containing dithranol (anthralin) which will stimulate the growth of new skin cells. Benefits, will reduce the itching of the skin and scars blemishes.
In addition to beauty and skin health, this fish can also provide other positive effects for the body. When these fish suck up our legs, feet will feel the shock-shock resulting from a crowd of small fish that can stimulate acupuncture points on the soles of the feet and make a smooth blood circulation. In order to obtain maximum results, therapy should be done regularly 2 to 3 times a week for 3 months.
Seeing the fish are running and swiftly suck the dead skin to create a feeling of relaxation. Not to mention a sense of amusement from sucking mouth of this small fish. You definitely can feel the comfortable feeling that will make you relaxed.
So, in addition to physical health, health and peace of mind you can also enjoy. In particular spa, you can not only enter the foot just to overrun Garra rufa fish, but you can try to soak the entire body while feeling baby soft straw Garra rufa fish this. Intend to try it?
You can find information about a fish spa through search engines such as google,yahoo, bing, altavista. After undergoing experience intriguing because the fish spa, do not forget to share via facebook, twitter, youtube.