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Hong Kong - A Hong Kong health spa has added a desperate spin to weight loss programmes by literally setting its customers on fire, a press report said on Sunday.
The Life Of Life Healing Spa said it can trim down any body part with its fire treatment, where the client is massaged, smothered in Chinese herbs and wrapped in wet towels before being set alight.
The spa's manager told the South China Morning Post that one female client had lost 15cm off her stomach in a single treatment. Another lost 9kg after two weeks of daily visits.
"It keeps you slim by detoxifying your body and by burning fat," manager Winnie Ng was quoted saying. "It also eases internal humidity and rheumatism."
'I have never heard of such a thing'
Customers are first tested by a machine that the spa says reads their aura and the energy flows of the body.
They then undergo a full body exfoliation and a soak in a 300-jet spa tub before being sprayed down with a high-pressure hose used for lymphatic drainage, the newspaper said.
Clients are then massaged with Chinese herbs and potions, such as angelica, ginseng, crocus, deer antler power and rhubarb, then wrapped up and set on fire with a lighter after an alcohol solution has been poured on them.
"We have someone standing by with a towel to put out the flames if they get too hot," beauty consultant Noel Ho said.
Fire extinguishers were also on hand while the burning process is repeated three to five times, she added.
'Sometimes people heat up needles in acupuncture'
The spa claimed the fire treatment is based on methods used in traditional Chinese medicine, but traditional Chinese doctor Yiu Yan-man said: "I have never heard of such a thing".
"Sometimes people heat up needles in acupuncture, but an open flame I never used," said the doctor. - Sapa-AFP
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Hong Kong - A Hong Kong health spa has added a desperate spin to weight loss programmes by literally setting its customers on fire, a press report said on Sunday.
The Life Of Life Healing Spa said it can trim down any body part with its fire treatment, where the client is massaged, smothered in Chinese herbs and wrapped in wet towels before being set alight.
The spa's manager told the South China Morning Post that one female client had lost 15cm off her stomach in a single treatment. Another lost 9kg after two weeks of daily visits.
"It keeps you slim by detoxifying your body and by burning fat," manager Winnie Ng was quoted saying. "It also eases internal humidity and rheumatism."
'I have never heard of such a thing'
Customers are first tested by a machine that the spa says reads their aura and the energy flows of the body.
They then undergo a full body exfoliation and a soak in a 300-jet spa tub before being sprayed down with a high-pressure hose used for lymphatic drainage, the newspaper said.
Clients are then massaged with Chinese herbs and potions, such as angelica, ginseng, crocus, deer antler power and rhubarb, then wrapped up and set on fire with a lighter after an alcohol solution has been poured on them.
"We have someone standing by with a towel to put out the flames if they get too hot," beauty consultant Noel Ho said.
Fire extinguishers were also on hand while the burning process is repeated three to five times, she added.
'Sometimes people heat up needles in acupuncture'
The spa claimed the fire treatment is based on methods used in traditional Chinese medicine, but traditional Chinese doctor Yiu Yan-man said: "I have never heard of such a thing".
"Sometimes people heat up needles in acupuncture, but an open flame I never used," said the doctor. - Sapa-AFP
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