Brooklyn, NY – Insisting that she was simply looking to “help” people, an ultra-Orthodox woman has run an ad in Brooklyn’s Di Tzeitung newspaper championing the use of pigeon blood as a “cure” for warts.

The NEW YORK POST (http://bit.ly/11vABSU) reports that the woman says she ran the ad after the treatment removed a wart on her daughter’s hand.

According to the woman, the treatment is as easy as going to the market and buying a pigeon, letting the blood sit on the wart for an hour, and washing it off.

In her ad, the woman gives a shout-out to the Wallabout Street poultry market for their assistance, but says she has no official affiliation with the market and turned to them only after being unable to find anyone within her own ultra-Orthodox community willing to apply the treatment to her daughter.

The woman does, however, add one “caveat” to using the treatment, and that is that it “does not work” on “gentiles.”

Some members of the Orthodox community have cautioned against the ad, saying that it may become the “object of ridicule.”