In Hyderabad, south India, an usual type of mass drug administration takes place called ‘Bathini Fish Medicine’. A secret paste is placed in a Murrel fishes mouth and swallowed whole. Every year in June, the Bathini Goud brothers and their asthma remedy attract thousands of people from all over the world to Hyderabad, capital of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
The Bathini Goud family claim their ancestors were given a remedy to cure asthma by a holy man who instructed them to use a live fish. The man blessed a well where the administrating goes on today. The therapy has been a family secret for the past 156 years.
The event is so popular that special bus services are laid on, Indian railways runs a number of “asthma specials” to ferry in people from across the country. Many eager patients line up outside the Goud family grounds overnight to get a head-start on the endless lines of believers.
Medical professionals say there is no scientific evidence to back the cure and claim it is simply a mind over matter cure. thousands however keep returning every year claiming dramatic improvements in their respiratory health.
In Hyderabad, south India, an usual type of mass drug administration takes place called ‘Bathini Fish Medicine’. A secret paste is placed in a Murrel fishes mouth and swallowed whole. Every year in June, the Bathini Goud brothers and their asthma remedy attract thousands of people from all over the world to Hyderabad, capital of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
The Bathini Goud family claim their ancestors were given a remedy to cure asthma by a holy man who instructed them to use a live fish. The man blessed a well where the administrating goes on today. The therapy has been a family secret for the past 156 years.
The event is so popular that special bus services are laid on, Indian railways runs a number of “asthma specials” to ferry in people from across the country. Many eager patients line up outside the Goud family grounds overnight to get a head-start on the endless lines of believers.
Medical professionals say there is no scientific evidence to back the cure and claim it is simply a mind over matter cure. thousands however keep returning every year claiming dramatic improvements in their respiratory health.