July 2000 The causes of asthma still remain something of a mystery. Equally enigmatic, however, is why people in India are being cured by swallowing a living, squiggling guppy that’s been coated in a bright yellow paste. Half a million asthmatics are flocking to a clinic in Hyderabad for this strange treatment. Kiran and her husband have travelled more than 24 hours from Delhi. She was treated by…