When things get 'fishy' in Hyderabad!

Hundreds and thousands of people jostled in Hyderabad on Monday to swallow medicine stuffed inside live fish - a treatment believed to cure asthma and other respiratory ailments. Eager patients lined up for the medicine - a herbal formula placed inside a small fish and thrust into their mouths - in an annual event set in Hindu astrological tradition.

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Text: ANI

Image: Bathini Goud administers 'fish medicine' to a patient at the Nampally Exhibition Grounds in Hyderabad on June 8, 2009. (Copyright AFP. Unauthorised reproduction is prohibited.)