Crowd waits to receive traditional fish 'prasadam' from the Bathini family to get relief from respiratory problems, at the Nampally Exhibition ground in Hyderabad.
Talasani Srinivas Yadav, Minister of Animal Husbandry of Telangana, shows fish to media before the start of administration of the traditional fish 'prasadam' by the Bathini family, at the Nampally Exhibition ground in Hyderabad. The fish ‘prasadam’ is back in Hyderabad after a three-year gap due to COVID-19 pandemic.
A member of the Bathini family before administering fish 'prasadam' to a patient at the Nampally Exhibition ground in Hyderabad.
A member of the Bathini family administers traditional fish 'prasadam' to an asthma patient at the Nampally Exhibition ground in Hyderabad.
A member of the Bathini family administers traditional fish 'prasadam' to an asthma patient at the Nampally Exhibition ground in Hyderabad.
Asthma patients wait to receive a special "fish medicine" which they hope will cure them in Hyderabad. Every year thousands of asthma patients arrive here to receive this fish therapy from the Bathini Goud family, 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 the patient's throat.
Asthma patients drink water while waiting to receive a special "fish medicine" which they hope will cure them in Hyderabad.
Volunteers try to open the mouth of a child suffering from asthma to administer a traditional fish medicine in Hyderabad.
People wait to be administered a traditional fish medicine in Hyderabad.
An asthma patient is administered a traditional fish medicine in Hyderabad.
