He was introduced to a well-known traditional healer in Jakarta, who prescribed a course of treatment that included getting a massage, sitting on hot clay bricks wrapped in a towel, and drinking a solution made from papaya leaves and temu lawak (a type of root).

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The BBC's Mohsen Asgari in Tehran says these are small villages, poorly built with hand-made bricks and clay but where villagers know each other well.

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Hanson likes to think its bricks are external wallpaper, rather than chunks of clay.

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