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Here at the Medobory Sanatorium in western Ukraine, visitors come not only to take “the waters,” but also “the beer.”

Not to drink, of course, but to bathe in.

Beer baths are just one of many unorthodox theraputic procedures offered by this no-frills, post-Soviet spa just 12 miles outside the regional center of Ternopol.

The former Soviet Union has become a mecca for such off-beat healing methods.

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