STRANGE WAYS OF TREATMENT FOR CURE
Getting cured, one way or the other
Liz Cohen receives a treatment by letting snakes loose on her body at a spa in the northern communal village of Talmey El'Azar in this picture taken February 1, 2007. Ada Barak, the owner of the spa, uses California and Florida King snakes, corn snakes and milk snakes in her treatments, which she said were inspired by her belief that once people get over any initial misgivings, they find physical contact with the creatures to be soothing. Picture taken February 1, 2007. REUTERS/Yonathan Weitzman (ISRAEL)
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Peruvian Ety Napadenschi (L), who is eight month pregnant, is touched by a dolphin named Wayra during a therapy session for pregnant women at a hotel in Lima, October 25, 2005. The therapy is supposed to stimulate the brains of the baby inside the belly, with the dolphins high-frequency sounds, to develop neuron abilities. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares Also see image: GF1DVYVODQAA
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A woman receives traditional Chinese medical treatment with a walnut on her eye and ignited dry moxa leaves in her ear at a hospital in Jinan, capital of eastern China's Shandong province June 12, 2006. CHINA OUT REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA)
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Kazuhiro Aoki, puts his face in an aquarium as Garra rufa, a fish used for skin treatment, nibbles his skin at the Beautyworld Japan trade fair in Tokyo May 20, 2008. Over 600 exhibitors took part in Japan's largest beauty trade fair which ends May 21. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao (JAPAN) REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao (JAPAN) also see GF2E46N05VT01
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Consumers enjoy mud therapy at a nursing home in Anshan, east China's Liaoning province August 21, 2006. The mineral mud is believed to be able to alleviate pain from rheumatoid arthritis, sequela of traumatisms and peripheral nervous system diseases. Picture taken August 21, 2006. CHINA OUT REUTERS/China Daily (CHINA) Also see image GF1DTJDFXAAA
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A leech hangs from the face of a Kashmiri patient Abdul Ahad, who suffers partial blindness, during a leech therapy session inside a hospital in Srinagar May 2, 2008. REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR)
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A man covered with mud sits in a medicinal mud pond at the "Lagoon of Miracles" in Chilca January 20, 2008. The 'Lagoon of Miracles,' with its distinct greenish colour along with the mud ponds that surround it, is said to cure everything from acne to rheumatism. REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil (PERU)
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A Chinese man receives treatment with bee venom for rhinitis, an inflammation of the nasal membranes, at a clinic in the Duqu Town of Xi'an, West China's Shaanxi province, April 4, 2006. The doctor of the clinic Li Qixing uses bee venom released into the patient's body when the bee stings, to cure diseases such as rheumatism, arthritis and rhinitis. Picture taken April 4, 2006. CHINA OUT REUTERS/China Daily
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A patient receives traditional Chinese medical treatment to cure cervical spondylosis at a clinic in Huai'an, east China's Jiangsu province March 7, 2007. China's government's spending on health accounted for 3.4 percent of its overall expenditure in 2006, but that figure would climb by only 0.1 percent to 3.5 this year. REUTERS/Patty Chen (CHINA)
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Jiang Musheng, a 66-year-old resident, eats a live tree frog at a village in Shangrao, in eastern China's Jiangxi province in this May 21, 2007 picture. Jiang suffered from frequent abdominal pains and coughing 20 years ago, until an old man called Yang Dingcai suggested tree frogs as a remedy, the Beijing News said on Tuesday. Picture taken May 21, 2007. REUTERS/China Daily (CHINA) CHINA OUT
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A man is administered a live fish as a medicine during a camp in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad June 9, 2007. Every year in June, Bathini Goud Brothers, a family in Hyderabad, draws thousands for administering the fish medicine which they claim miraculously cures asthma. REUTERS/Krishnendu Halder (INDIA)
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A man wipes sweat from a patient buried in sand during treatment in northeastern province of Buriram June 21, 1998. Witchdoctor Pan Rerngprasarn buries his patients up to their necks in hot sand and then stands on them believing that he can cure anything from cancer to mental illness with ancient Cambodian healing art. His patients, some considered hopeless by doctors practising conventional medicine, travel from far and wide to Pan's village. AW/JO/
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A resident receives horn cupping treatment on his back on a street in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region July 13 2008. Cupping is an alternative form of pain therapy that has been part of Chinese medicine for over 2,500 years, local media reported. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA)
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Haj Mohamed el-Minyawi allows one of his bees to sting a patient suffering from ear problems in Cairo July 14, 2007. Minyawi believes that the bee stings have special properties, that when used on different parts of the body can cure ailments like kidney problems, appendicitis and even cancer. Minyami has opened his home to public and treats people from all over Cairo. REUTERS/Nasser Nuri (EGYPT)
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A patient undergoes cupping treatment at Huangzhiguo Traditional Chinese Massage and Acupuncture Clinic in Shanghai August 8, 2007. Cupping is a treatment that claims to take the heat out of the body, by using cups that are heated before being placed on the body of the patient. Huangzhiguo Traditional Chinese Massage and Acupuncture Clinic is the largest private clinic on Chinese traditional massage and acupuncture in Shanghai. REUTERS/Nir Elias (CHINA)
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Leeches are placed on the leg of a patient during a leech therapy session inside a hospital in Srinagar May 2, 2008. REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR)
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Russian woman takes leech treatment in a laboratory in Moscow, February 1, 2001. The International Leech Centre raises leeches for use in treatments dating from ancient Egypt for a wide variety of ailments, including blood disorders and immunity problems. AS/FMS
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An asthma patient swallows a life fish as part of his treatment in Bombay June 8. The tiny river fish's mouth is stuffed with herbal medicine before it is forced live down the throat of asthmatics in a ritual that some Indians believe provides a sure shot cure for the disease. The combination of herbs used in the procedure is a secret that is tightly guarded by an Indian family which claims to have known it for 150 years. SK/DL/CLH/
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A man holds a terrapin, whose touch believed to cure rheumatism and other bodily ailments, as he prepares to treat the face of a villager in Kandal province, 20km (12 miles) west of Phnom Penh, May 24, 2006. Belief in the supernatural healing powers of animals such as turtles, cows and snakes is a relatively common phenomenon in Cambodia. Picture taken May 24, 2006. REUTERS/Chor Sokutnhea Also refer to: GF1DTALTITAA
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A Kashmiri child shows his arm as he undergoes leech therapy in Hazratbal, on the outskirts of Srinagar, December 7, 2007. Leeches have been used for thousands of years for various medical treatment purposes. REUTERS/Danish Ismail (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR)
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Cambodia villagers collect the urine of a cow believed to have healing powers in Kompot province, about 100 km (62 miles) south of the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, on September 26, 2002. Belief in the supernatural healing powers of animals such as cows, snakes and turtles is relatively common in Cambodia, where more than third of the population lives on less than $1 a day and few can afford modern medicines. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea ECR/JD
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Garra rufa fish from "Dr Fish" bath swim near the feet of visitors at Hakone Kowakien in a hot spring resort, west of Tokyo April 17, 2006. A resort hotel opened "Dr Fish" bath that contains 1,000 West Asian fish. The Garra rufa fish used in this spa is known as "Doctor Fish" since it feeds on the dead skin from the feet of visitors and is believed by some to cure skin diseases. REUTERS/Toshiyuki Aizawa
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A woman receives traditional Chinese medical treatment with dead scorpions on her face at a hospital in Jinan, capital of eastern China's Shandong province June 12, 2006. CHINA OUT REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA)
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Visitors cover their bodies with black mud at a tourist resort in Daying County of Suning, south-western China's Sichuan province, May 2, 2007. The mineral-rich black mud is believed to be good for the skin, local media reported. Picture taken May 2, 2007. REUTERS/China Daily (CHINA) CHINA OUT
