Mrigasira - Asthma Fish treatment in Hyderabad

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Asthma patients experience the shock of having a live fish placed into their gullet and the feeling of having to swallow it in one go! Bathini Fish Medicine Camp, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. Bathini Fish Medicine (also known as Bathini Mrugasira Fish) is stuffed inside the mouth of live murrel fish (Channa species also classified as Ophiocephalus) of 2 in. to 2.5 in. (5 cm to 6 cm) in size. Then fish with medicine is slipped into the mouth of the asthmatic patient.(The fish is slippery, so there is no problem in swallowing it) This live fish moves, wagging its tail and fins, through the throat and negotiates the phlegm congestion, providing cure to asthma, it is claimed. The advice is to continue taking the treatment together with a strict diet over 45 days during each of three cons