Swallowing a Live Fish Could Get Rid of Your Asthma? But How?!

INDIA – A traditional treatment for asthma is to swallow live fish and with pinching of noses and watery eyes. Asthma sufferers gather every year in the month of June in the southern city of Hyderabad to gulp down the fish stuffed with a yellow herbal paste, in the hope it will help them breathe more easily.

The herbs are inserted in the mouth of a live sardine and the wriggling 5cm fish are slipped into the patient's throat, often leaving them gagging. After digesting the treatment, patients are told to go on a strict diet for 45 days.

Thousands of people 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. Accredited groups and doctors have complained that the treatment is 'unscientific', a violation of human rights and unhygienic, claims rejected by the family.

Source: DailyMail