Bizarre Vietnamese doctors warn of a new trend of beauty salons in the capital, Ho Chi Minh City offer. Customers using alcohol-soaked towels over them and then fire to be inserted. As the skin is young and cool and held, claim beauty salons. Pure quackery, say the doctors.

The practice is not yet prohibited. Due to the success to offer more and more beauty spas in the city (7.5 million inhabitants), the ‘therapy’, even if they are neither adequate staff nor suitable equipment. the

On the video below on YouTube to see how the customer is lying a towel over himself. The towel is alcohol-soaked, and is then set on fire. The flame is thirty seconds later extinguished by a dry towel. It need not be said, that the practice of arranged goes wrong and leads to burns or even to suffocation. Next to the skin young love is the vuurtherapie – at least according to the quacks – the solution for almost all ailments: headaches, insomnia, muscle aches and digestive problems.