Mahesh Kumar A / AP

A young Indian asthma patient is administered with fish medicine as others wait their turn in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, June 8, 2010. Thousands of asthma patients lined up Tuesday to swallow a live three-centimeter-long fish stuffed with a medicinal paste in the hope that it would give them relief from nagging respiratory problems.

Mahesh Kumar A / AP

Administering 'fish medicine' in Hyderabad

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Comment author avatarNEOSHO

Nopers! I would not be able to swallow that. Gross!

    Reply#1 - Tue Jun 8, 2010 12:58 PM EDT
    Comment author avatarformerlyknownas Ed

    Sure, it's cheap; but there are disadvantages to a mother doing a root canal.

      Reply#2 - Tue Jun 8, 2010 8:21 PM EDT
      Comment author avatarAl-417567

      The East Indian pulmonologists practicing in the USA would be doing this too, if it was covered by insurance.

        Reply#3 - Tue Jun 8, 2010 8:23 PM EDT
        Comment author avatarearl 1

        I think a 5 lb. carp would be more effective.

          Reply#4 - Tue Jun 8, 2010 8:40 PM EDT
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