A mother encourages her daughter to fully open her mouth to swallow a live fish holding “the medicine” she believes will help cure her child's asthma, as scores clamor about, gulping down their own fish and hoping for the best.
Each summer, on a day deemed auspicious by astrological calculations, people suffering from asthma and other respiratory ailments flock to the southern Indian city of Hyderabad to swallow a small live fish with its mouth stuffed with a secret herbal treatment that only one family can craft.
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