No fish medicine for asthma this year

Hyderabad: Hyderabad's fabled traditional medicine for asthma, called fish prasadam, will not be distributed this year owing to the coronavirus lockdown, according to Bathini Harinath Goud, who belongs to the family that has been administering it for decades.

The herbal medicine is administered on Mrigasira Karthi which falls on June 8 and 9 this year. “We request the public across the country not to come to Hyderabad for the fish prasadam this year.”

He also appealed to the people not to believe any fake messages about coronavirus in the name of the the Bathini family.”