Roots of Medical Astrology

Description

Medical Astrology is the art and science of evaluating and predicting disease susceptibilities and possibilities from the astrological horoscope. This method is unique and brilliant as the disease possibility can be analyzed without the benefit of physical examination and other determination methods like medical tests. In the olden days it was essential for the physician to have the knowledge of astronomy and astrology. Hippocrates, the Greek physician who is regarded as the father of medicine, insisted his students study astrology, saying, “He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor …Each of the astrological signs (along with the Sun, Moon, and planets) with different parts of the human body.

This book on Medical Astrology promises to be the guidebook for seekers and students of medical astrology, it offers exhaustive tables depicting body parts from an Ayurvedic and Western perspective. There are many topics discussed in the book that have not been covered to date by any of the authors of Medical astrology unique to the book are a few methods and techniques like, locating the seat of disease by the application of six methods, timing of the disease, the difference between four humor theory of western astrology and the three doshas of Ayurved, etc. Other than that the book covers the entire gamut of known diseases through simple astrological combinations and sufficient astrological examples. This is a must-have book for all students, scholars, and enthusiasts of astrology.