Crude oil touted as health cure in Azerbaijan

Immersed up to her neck in a dark viscous liquid, Sulfiya smiles in delight, confident that the fetid substance will cure her painful condition.[NAFTALAN] Immersed up to her neck in a dark viscous liquid, Sulfiya smiles in delight, confident that the fetid substance will cure her painful condition.

"It is a gift from God," agrees 48-year-old Rufat, an Azerbaijani journalist and opposition party member who is undergoing treatment in the sanatorium called Sehirli, or"magic" in Azerbaijani. According to a legend, which spa staff readily tell clients, the healing properties of Naftalan's"miraculous oil" were discovered by accident when a camel left to die near a pool of oil was cured.

But doctors and patients at Naftalan brush aside any misgivings and the sanatorium even has a small museum displaying crutches that once belonged to patients who have recovered from their illnesses.During its heyday in the 1980s, Naftalan would host more than 70,000 visitors a year.

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