PATIENTS with chronic, intractable diseases tend to seek help from a wide range of "Alternative and Complimentary Medicine" sources. But perhaps among the more bizarre, is the treatment given by the Garra Rufa fish to the suffers of various Skin Disorders, including Eczema, Psoriasis and Dermatitis. The Garra Rufa fish a member of the cyprinidae family. They originate in Hot Spring pools of the Tigress and Euphrates rivers, in the East Anatolian Kangal region of Turkey and Iraqi and Iran.

WE at Skin Therapy Ireland, through our contacts in Turkey have secured access to these Garra Rufa fish and brought them to Ireland, and NOW the Garra Rufa fish are available to the Irish suffers of chronic,  Skin disorders like Eczema, Dermatitis and Psoriasis. In one East Anatolian spa these fish have “nibbled” with success, on the skin of psoriasis-sufferers for more than four hundred year

The treatment provided by Skin Therapy Ireland and the Garra Rufa Fish is not proven scientifically as a treatment for these Skin disorders, however it does offer a long term, clear, visible improvements to the symptoms of these disorders, for the suffers and a return to a more "long term normalised skin condition" is very achievable. In the meantime however, there is, a) many statements from patients who have undergone the treatment, and b)  scientific and medical investigation into these fish, like the investigations from, the medical faculty of the Istanbul University, the Lancet and scientific investigations by the magazine Science.

We would like to make it clear that the concept of being treated by the Garra Rufa fish has existed for many years in Turkey. It is not a con, nor is this just another "rip off scheme". We are not here to undermine the pharmaceutical industry and denounce the various forms of medication available on the market for the different Skin Disorders. Nor are we here to criticise and detract from the Medical community. We are simply making sufferers of these skin disorders aware of this alternative source of treatment, which can be supported with factual proof of success.