India: Traditional Health Worker Treatment by Zahid Hussain Bhat
Leech suck blood from a foot of a child. After the traditional health worker uses leeches to suck blood as part of a treatment at Hazratbal on the banks of the Dal Lake on the outskirts of Srinagar,India administrated Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, March 21, 2017. Every year traditional health workers in Kashmir use leeches to treat people for small, itchy, painful lumps that develop on the skin called chilblains acquired during winter on Nowruz, which marks the first day of spring and the beginning of the year in the Persian calendar.
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