I sh!t on myself

Thousands of people jostled in Hyderabad to swallow medicine stuffed inside a live fish - a treatment believed to cure asthma and other respiratory ailments.

Patients have to buy a two-inch-long Murrel fish, and swallow it live after Bathinis stuff their secret herbal mixture inside its mouth.

The fish helps to clear the patient??€�s oesophagus as it makes its way down to the stomach, and later releases the medicine. It survives for about 15 minutes inside the body and clears phlegm in the lungs as it flaps about.