Bathini Mrugasira Fish Medicine Photos: Stuffed Live Sardines To Cure Asthma
by Anorak | 9th, June 2014
PHOTOS Essay of members of the Goud family administering fish medicine to an asthma patient in Hyderabad, India.
Started by the Bathini Goud family, the therapy is a secret formula of herbs, handed down by generations only to family members. The herbs are inserted in the mouth of a live sardine, or murrel fish, and slipped into the patient’s throat.
Rumours that the Goud family own the country’s largest sardine farm are unfounded.
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