Weird & wacky beauty treatments

Health and Beauty has always been two major preoccupations for human kind from pre-historic times. And now it is all the more true. Snail massage, fish nibble, bull semen, bee venom, leech bite, herbal beer bath, mud bath, red LED light, and what not! East and West, North and South, people are crazily pursuing all sorts of therapies to enhance beauty and health. Primitive as well as sophisticated methods are equally welcome, more welcome if it has the 'natural' tag attached. Some are traditional treatments from less known groups, some are well branded and marketed with appealing names, like ‘Apitherapy’ or ‘Ultimate Total Body Hydra-Dermbrasion Resurfacing’. Here are a few from different parts of the world.

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A woman with allergies is stung with a bee by a bee sting therapist in a farm in Silang, Cavite south of Manila.Farm owner Joel Magsaysay uses bee stings to treat patients with ailments such as hypothyroidism, paralysis and cancer. Magsaysay said the bee's venom contains a potent cocktail of proteins that boost auto-immune system that let the body activate the nerves and heal itself. REUTERS/Erik De Castro
A woman with allergies is stung with a bee by a bee sting therapist in a farm in Silang, Cavite south of Manila.Farm owner Joel Magsaysay uses bee stings to treat patients with ailments such as hypothyroidism, paralysis and cancer. Magsaysay said the bee's venom contains a potent cocktail of proteins that boost auto-immune system that let the body activate the nerves and heal itself. REUTERS/Erik De Castro