There鈥檚 something fishy about this cure
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MORE than 5,000 Indians have lined up in the country’s south, pinching their noses and sticking their tongues out to swallow live fish in an unusual traditional treatment for asthma.
Every year in June asthma patients gather in the southern city of Hyderabad to gulp down the fish stuffed with a yellow herbal paste, hoping it will help them breathe more easily.
The wriggling 5-centimeter murrel fish are slipped into the throats of patients in a bizarre treatment that leaves them gagging. The Bathini Goud family, which administers the treatment, says the fish clear the throat on their way down and permanently cure asthma and other respiratory problems.
But the family has declined to reveal the secret formula which it says it got from a Hindu saint in 1845.
Parents are often forced to pry open the mouths of reluctant kids who cry at the sight of squirming fish, while others pinch their noses, tip their heads back and close their eyes.
Thousands travel from across India for the free medicine during a two-day period, the specific dates of which are determined by the onset of the monsoon every June.
Rights groups and doctors have complained that the medicine is “unscientific,” a violation of human rights and unhygienic, claims rejected by the family.
After digesting the treatment, patients are told to go on a strict diet for 45 days.
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