Asthma is a terrible condition, but luckily, science has gotten really good at helping people cope with the condition. But some people still believe that there are traditional means better and faster than drugs, and that is swallowing live fish laced with herbs. They believe swallowing the tiny live fish would help people with breathing problems. For that reason, an estimated 100,000 people gathered at India's Hyderabad's Exhibition Ground earlier this month to do just that.
This yearly tradition sees those with breathing problems pushed together to swallow live fish stuffed with herbal paste. The paste is created by the Bathini Goud family, and its ingredients are kept secret. They claim that they received the recipe directly from a Hindu saint back in 1845.
Children who are scared are sometimes flogged and forced into submission.
