Hyderabad: Thousands of asthma patients on Friday took ‘fish prasadam’, which has been distributed by a family here for more than 170 years.
The patients from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh and some other states queued up at Exhibition Grounds to take ‘fish prasadam’ as the medicine began to be called a decade ago after rationalists challenged its efficacy.
Members of Bathini Goud family started administering the ‘wonder drug’ at 9 am to mark ‘Mrigasira Karti’, which heralds the onset of monsoon.
Like in the past, the Telangana government made elaborate arrangements for the annual event.
Minister for Animal Husbandry and Fisheries T Srinivas Yadav along with Telangana Legislative Council Chairman Swamy Goud inaugurated the distribution of ‘fish prasadam’.
Despite the controversies which hit the popularity of the fish medicine over last few years, people continue to throng the venue in the hope of finding some relief to their nagging respiratory problems.
— IANS
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