Crude oil touted as health cure in Azerbaijan

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Despite warnings of crude oil's carcinogenic properties, people with ailments still flock to Azerbaijan to immerse themselves in oil for supposed health benefits.

Oil is used to treat muscular, skin and bone conditions as well as gynaecological and neurological problems.

The petroleum spa resort in the oil-rich Caucasus country is a draw for visitors despite its proximity to Nagorny Karabakh, a region disputed between Azerbaijan and Armenia in a long-running armed conflict. Oil exports to markets all over the world are the largest sector of Azerbaijan’s economy, but the crude that comes from subsoil reservoirs in Naftalan is not suitable for commercial use.

“In the past, when there weren’t any hotels or sanatoriums, people would come to Naftalan and stay with locals,” said one of the doctors at the Sehirli sanatorium, Fabil Azizov, sitting in her office under a portrait of strongman President Ilham Aliyev.

The conflict claimed the lives of some 30,000 people from both sides and forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes.

 

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