Leeches are kept inside an earthen pot before a leech therapy session on March 21, 2017, in in Anantnag District 60 Km from Srinagar the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, India. Nowruz, the beginning of the year in the Persian calendar has a different significance in Indian Kashmir. On this day, thousands of patients suffering from various skin ailments gather to receive the leech treatment. In this centuries-old alternative treatment, practitioners use leeches to suck impure blood from the affected patient. Leech treatment is one of the oldest skin therapies in the valley and is believed to h
Leeches are kept inside an earthen pot before a leech therapy session on March 21, 2017, in in Anantnag District 60 Km from Srinagar the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, India. Nowruz, the beginning of the year in the Persian calendar has a different significance in Indian Kashmir. On this day, thousands of patients suffering from various skin ailments gather to receive the leech treatment. In this centuries-old alternative treatment, practitioners use leeches to suck impure blood from the affected patient. Leech treatment is one of the oldest skin therapies in the valley and is believed to have been used to treat thousands of patients. Though overshadowed by more conventional treatments over the years, people from various parts of Kashmir travel every Nowruz to receive the therapy. Nowruz also marks the first day of spring in Kashmir that extends roughly from March to early May. (Photo by Muneeb Ul Islam / Pacific Press)
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