Warm, brown mud was slathered onto my torso like Nutella on a baguette. Then, like that takeaway sandwich, I was wrapped in cellophane and left to sweat.
Fangotherapy, or mud bathing, is the principal detoxifying, anti-inflammatory, regenerative cure and raison d’être at the Regina Isabella thermal spa, in Ischia. The mud is harvested from an underground source and infused for months in basins of thermal water rich in sodium, potassium, magnesium, and calcium.
