Different people have different cultural beliefs and practices, and I set out to discover some when I made this interesting discovery...
Thousands of people from far and wide gather in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad for a strange cure for their respiratory ailments. Asthma sufferers benefit from the treatment which, involves swallowing live two-inch-long murrel fish stuffed with herbal medicines.
A family; the Goud family has drawn throngs of people for years with a secret fish and herbal formula it says it received from a Hindu saint about 170 years ago. They give it away for free annually and refuse to reveal the mix, saying the saint warned it would lose its potency if commercialized.
Every year, a special day is chosen by Astrologers, and more than 70,000 Asthmatic patients throng in to receive this treatment.
After swallowing the live fish, believers are told to abstain from fried foods and keep to a strict 45-day diet of 25 different foods, including lamb, rice, white sugar, dried mango, spinach and clarified butter.
Does it work?.....
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