A Pakistani person eats leaves to live for 25 years, never getting sick

A man in Pakistan survived by eating leaves and wood for the past 25 years and has never been ill.

The Indian Times said the man was named Mehmood Butt , living in Gujranwala district in Punjab province. Mr. Butt is 50 years old, but has eaten leaves since he was 25 because he has no job and no money to buy food.

" My family is too poor. Everything is beyond the limits and it is too difficult for me to get a meal, so I think it is better to eat wood instead of begging on the street ," Mr. Butt said. .

" Eating wood and leaves has now become my habit, " Mr. Butt said.

Mr. Butt ate tree leaves since he was 25 years old.(Photo: Hindustan Times).

Mr. Butt said that years later, when he got a job and could buy food, he found that he still liked to maintain his unique way of eating.

Currently, Mr. Butt is making about Rs 600 each day with the job of transporting things from one place to another with his donkey car.

The man said he had never been ill and always wanted to eat fresh wood and green leaves. His favorite woods are Banyan, Tali and Suck Chain.

Mr. Ghulam Mohammad, a neighbor, said Mr. Butt had never seen a doctor or go to any hospital, and " we were really shocked to see how a person did not get sick despite eating wood. throughout the years ".

" He will stop the car at the road whenever and eat fresh branches ," the neighbor described.

The habit of eating leaves but never getting sick made Mr. Butt famous in the area.