Garra Rufa Fish Pedicures - Complementary Medicine Quackery For Your Toes

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 17:40 in Biology & Nature

Garra rufa - "doctor fish' - are now trendy in some fish pedicure places.  The pedicuree dips their feet (see? I don't specify a gender or make any judgments, I am not Manny Pacquiao) into water containing the fish and the little critters exfoliate you by basically eating the dead skin from your toes. read more

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