MEDICAL ASTROLOGY

AMedical Astrology indicates, the planetary influences which cause the various diseases, afflictions and accidents. It gives a clear picture of planets and its relation to disease, what disease will be produced under different planetary conditions, the duration of such diseases and whether or not they would prove fatal. Sickness in its various forms is caused through the differently composed afflictions of planets in the various signs of the zodiac and houses in the horoscope.

Basically it is no exaggeration to say that astrology dominated everything during that period and thus many systems of knowledge depended upon it, were symbiotic with it, or made reference to it in their worldview. In the case of medicine, astrologers assigned signs of the zodiac to rule over parts of the body, planets to rule over organs and systems, and planets to rule over diseases and drugs. Thus the whole system is one of observation and interpretation based upon a complex system of given Rulerships.