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When blood suckers turn healers: Leech therapy returns to Kashmir

March 21 is celebrated as Navroz in many parts of the world as the beginning of the new year. People in Kashmir too celebrate it as the beginning of the new agricultural season with seeds being sown and farms made ready. On this day some Kashmiris go for a “new” life, they start a course of “leech therapy”. Many people think attaching live leeches to the human body can cure […]