Fish considered as a boon for asthma patients
It is often considered that Kindness is the best part of a good being's life. Accordingly, the Bathini family from Hyderabad showed their little acts of kindness, by offering medicines to those who were suffering from asthma, bronchitis and other respiratory diseases.
This family has been showing their utmost care, for last 165 years and had taken the initiative to arrange medicines for the patients on the auspicious occasion of Mrigasira solar phase, which was an astrological phenomenon and take place once in a year in two days. This astrological occurrence leads to rainfall which helps in discovering the 'small fish', which is actually a murrel fish, from the wet ground. Therefore; thousands of people from across the world were reported to have visited Hyderabad, on 9th June, 2010, to get them treated by swallowing a 'small fish' which was mixed with herbal medicines.
The medicine includes a herbal yellow paste stuffed inside a live murrel fish and the people are expected to consume it, in order to avoid being prone to asthma and other respiratory sickness.
The desire to get cured fully, the patients had to take the complete course of the medicine for four years continuously. Although the medicines would be of no cost, but the people had to purchase the fish which was locally called murrel.