/oss/taxonomy/term/2561/all en /oss/article/quackery/100-success-rate-cure-asthma-sounds-bit-fishy <p>Asthma is a terrible affliction, often triggered by allergies. Sufferers will do almost anything to avoid the suffocating feeling it causes. Even swallowing fish! Yet, that is exactly what almost fifty thousand people did earlier this month, and have done for the last 100 years, during “Mrigasira Karthi”, an annual event that takes place in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad put on by the Bathini Goud family in preparation for allergy season.</p> Thu, 22 Jun 2017 01:10:59 +0000 Cassandra Lee, OSS Intern 2555 at /oss