Bantwal : 3 of family hospitalised after drinking wrong Kashaya on Aati Amavasya day

Mangalore Today News Network

Bantwal, Aug 3, 2016  :  Three  members of a family from Panjikallu  in   Bantwal have been hospitalised as they fell ill after they drank the concoction prepared from the bark of some other tree by mistaking it as Paale tree on  Aati Amavasya Day  on August 2, Tuesday.

Those who fell ill after drinking the Kashaya or concoction are Vasanth Poojary (48) from Keldodi, his daughters Aswitha (17) and Anwitha (15).

It has been gathered that the bark of some tree thinking it to be Paale tree was brought  by Vasanth’s wife Pushpa. Sources said she had brought the bark of Kanapaale tree. Soon after consuming the Kashaya,  Vasanth and his two daughters started vomitting following which they were hospitalised.

Doctors attending on the three said  it would have been fatal if the bark of the tree  had poisonous content.