"Kangal Hot Springs with Fish"
While touring through Central Anatolian Region (Central Turkey), there is one thermal spa well worth mentioning here, spa of an extraordinary character and one of its kind in the world. It is visited by people searching for cures from all over the world. This healing spa is called "Kangal Hot Spring with Fish" and it is only 13 km from Kangal town in the province of Sivas. The beneficial waters of 36 C contain bicarbonate, calcium, magnesium and also many small fish (2-10 cm long), which play a vital part in curing various skin diseases. There are also two other thermal spas in this province: Sicak Çermik and Soguk Çermik, famous for their valuable therapeutic treatments.
Kangal Fish Spring has a peculiar place among our thermal springs. The spring whose similar is not found because of its medical treatment, exhibits its medical and scientific miracle by curing "Psoriasis".
There are fishes in the water of the spring which is 36-37 degree, and their practicing medical treatment in a miraculous way increases its characteristic and fame. Because, Kangal Fish Spring has become the last hope for all the skin diseases all over the world whose treatments are not found even in the modern medical.
Wounds in tissue of skin which are irritated and due to any infections, eczema, inflammated pimples and even skin diseases like Psoriaris which is incurable, are treated by Cyprinion, Macrostamus (Beni fish) and Garra rufa (yağlı fish) and disease's marks vanish.
A visit to Turkey would not be complete without a stop at one of the country's better known spas, whether to treat a health problem or simply to luxuriate in the soothing waters of natural mineral baths.
The health-giving properties of Turkey's natural hot springs have been renowned since antiquity.
The ancient city of Hierapolis was built on the site of the rich mineral waters of Pamukkale, where the steaming water has hollowed enormous circular basins in the earth as it flowed down the mountainside, coating the slopes in a smooth layer of dazzlingly-white calcareous rock.
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