Indian believers swallow live fish as asthma cure
India Fish Medicine
A member of the Goud family, only hands seen, administers “fish medicine” to an asthma patient in Hyderabad, India, Friday, June 8, 2012. 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 a patient's throat. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A)