A woman receives leech therapy session on a shallow side of a lake in Srinagar, Indian-administrared Kashmir. On Nowruz, the Persian calendar's first day of spring and the beginning of the year, traditional health practitioners in Kashmir use leeches to treat patients suffering from skin illnesses, arthritis, chronic headaches, and sinusitis.
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