Potret Warga India Telan Ikan Hidup demi Obati Asma

Potret Warga India Telan Ikan Hidup demi Obati Asma

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Senin, 19 Jun 2023 07:00 WIB

Jakarta - Ribuan warga mengantre di Nampally Exhibition Grounds, Hyderabad, India untuk mengikuti tradisi Prasadam. Tradisi ini diklaim mampu untuk mengobati asma.

Asthma patients wait to receive a special

Setelah tiga tahun absen akibat pandemi COVID-19, tradisi Prasadam kembali digelar. Prasadam merupakan tradisi pengobatan asma dengan menelan ikan sarden atau ikan murrell hidup-hidup. (Foto: AP/Mahesh Kumar A.)

A patient swallows live murrel fish with herbs to cure asthma as administered by the Bathini Goud family, at the exhibition grounds in Hyderabad on June 9, 2023. (Photo by Noah SEELAM / AFP) (Photo by NOAH SEELAM/AFP via Getty Images)

Ribuan orang mengantre di Nampally Exhibition Grounds, Hyderabad untuk mengikuti tradisi Prasadam. Mereka mengerubungi tempat tersebut dengan harapan asma yang diidapnya cepat sembuh. (Foto: Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images)

A man holds live murrel fish which is administered by the Bathini Goud family to cure asthma patients, at the exhibition grounds in Hyderabad on June 9, 2023. (Photo by NOAH SEELAM / AFP) (Photo by NOAH SEELAM/AFP via Getty Images)

Bathini Goud, memasukkan jamu rahasia ke dalam mulut ikan sarden. Ikan tersebut dimasukkan ke dalam tenggorokan pasien. (Foto: Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images)

Volunteers try to open the mouth of a child suffering from asthma to administer a traditional fish medicine in Hyderabad, India, Friday, June 9, 2023. Every year thousands of asthma patients arrive here to receive this fish therapy from the Bathini Goud family, a secret formula of herbs, handed down by generations only to family members. The herbs are inserted in the mouth of a live sardine, or murrel fish, and slipped into the patient's throat. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

Pengobatan ini sudah berjalan selama 175 tahun dan diwariskan secara turun temurun oleh keluarga Goud. Pengobatan ini disebut mampu mengatasi asma dan gangguan pernapasan lainnya. (Foto: AP/Mahesh Kumar A.)

An asthma patient is administered a traditional fish medicine in Hyderabad, India, Friday, June 9, 2023. Every year thousands of asthma patients arrive here to receive this fish therapy from the Bathini Goud family, a secret formula of herbs, handed down by generations only to family members. The herbs are inserted in the mouth of a live sardine, or murrel fish, and slipped into the patient's throat. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

Ikan yang bergerak mengibaskan sirip saat melalui rongga tenggorokan dipercaya bisa melancarkan aliran pernapasan sehingga pasien bisa sembuh. Selain itu, pasien juga diminta untuk menjalani diet selama 45 hari dengan menjaga pola makan. (Foto: AP/Mahesh Kumar A.)

Potret Warga India Telan Ikan Hidup demi Obati Asma
Potret Warga India Telan Ikan Hidup demi Obati Asma
Potret Warga India Telan Ikan Hidup demi Obati Asma
Potret Warga India Telan Ikan Hidup demi Obati Asma
Potret Warga India Telan Ikan Hidup demi Obati Asma
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