Hyderabad: The ‘Fish Prasadam’ (fish medicine), fish is consumed with yellow herbal paste. The paste is first filled with a live three centimeter-long Murrel fish which then slips through the patient’s throat, which was swallows it alive. Medication is offered as ‘Prasad’ in the form of treatment for asthma and other respiratory disorders. The Hyderabad-based Battini Goud family has been distributing ‘Fish Prasad’ for the past 173 years. The content of the paste is the secret of a family. The Goud Family claim that the secret formula for herbal medicine was given to their ancestors after they were sworn in by a saint in 1845 that it would be administered for free.
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