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Between July and September, during the hottest months of the year, when the temperature is above 37 degrees in the shade, people from all over Egypt and from neighboring areas to the desert oasis town of Siwa in the Libyan desert west of Egypt are expected to turn To take the warm sand baths, which each session takes fifteen minutes of time.

Local doctors as well as those who have undergone this "treatment" claim that only three to five days of moderate hot sand bathing can cure many diseases such as rheumatism, arthritis, even infertility and ED.

Bathing in the warm sand is a tradition developed by the Amazigh people living in this remote region near the Drakur mountain, about Khashmon, east of the Libyan border, and 560 kilometers from the capital Cairo.

One of the "sick" who was buried in the hot sand watched from under the shade to receive shade to protect his face and head from the heat of the hot sun in (Siwa) in Egypt.

A patient relaxing under the hot sandsun and hot 

A patient is treated by a worker who stands on his shoulders and presses on his feet

This treatment begins around midday when the sun is in the middle of the sky and the air is as hot as possible. The "sick" are taken to certain locations in the desert where they take off their clothes before a citizen of Siwa is trained in this treatment by burying them in sand pits.

After ten to five minutes, they are extracted from these pits and transported quickly to nearby tents that are exposed to the sun throughout the day until they act like a sauna. After this treatment, the patients are escorted to a nearby house to cool their bodies and change their clothes by wearing new and refreshing clothes. Dinner.

The treatment sessions last three to five days, during which patients are not allowed to shower or cool their bodies with cold air or allow cold air to rub their skin. They are only allowed to drink hot drinks and only eat hot foods.

On the last day of treatment, patients receive a soothing massage, relaxing and relaxing using oil and vinegar to help close open pores.

Workers collaborate to bury a patient in the hot sand during his hot sand bath in Siwa, Egypt.

A patient covered with a worker covering his body by the hot sand in Siwa, Egypt.

A worker helps a besieged patient to go to the sauna tent after he was taken out of the hot sand he was buried in (Siwa) in Egypt.

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