Medical Astrology

Respected Dr. Joshi

 

We feel very lucky to have you here. We hope you will keep enlighting us in future about medical aspects of astrology.

 

Please accept my regards

Atul

Thanks, Atul, for you kind welcome. I am happy to see that you would be interested in the astrological aspect of diseases and their cures!

Dear sir,

 

I must thank you for ur enlightening reply.but sir,when v wear neelam,why do some people get an accident.Gemstone seem to influence not only our body but also our fate and also things that happen with us.Also is it ok to a wear a yellow saphire in the left hand.I have been advised to wear it in the left hand only.My stone is almost white n looks lik a diamond rather than a yellow sapphire(which it is).But the stone is a bit dirty inside and has a bit of black stains on the gold and corners of the stone.These stains came wen i gave it for cleaning.Is it ok to stil wear it.

 

with best regards,

mita

I have always heard professional astrologers in Maharashtra State(India) say that blue sapphire (neelam) should be worn only if it suits a person perfectly. They say it can cause harm if worn when not suited.

For one thing, it should never be worn without taking the opinion of a very learned astrologer.

I grew up in a household where astrology was a family tradition and so have heard of instances like the one you have mentioned, often enough.

All I can say is that where blue sapphire is concerned, a very good professional astrologer should be consulted before wearing it.

"Gemstones affect our fate and the things that happen to us in our lives"... yes, that is why they are generally worn.

In this post, I am pointing out that they can affect us medically also. (Medicine being my profession and field of interest).

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I have no idea why you were told to wear the yellow sapphire on your left hand. Did you ask? I too, would also like to know the answer! If you find out, please do post it here!

Or if someone else is reading this and knows, please do tell us!

If your stone was less white and without any stains when you gave it for cleaning, are you sure you got back the same one you gave for cleaning?

I don't want to alarm or frighten you, but you should ask this question to a good and honest ratnaparkhi, perhaps you could ask one in a town other than the one you stay in, or ask your relatives or friends to ask in other places! (Whether stains can show up after cleaning, which were not visible before).

You should do that.

For how long were you wearing the yellow sapphire before you gave it for cleaning?

Was it very clear and translucent before? Was it translucent enough for you to know there were no stains in it? Think!

I am an expert in herbs, not stones, thank goodness.

Whether you should continue to wear it...... well, depends.

Show it to another ratnaparkhi (not the one who cleaned it) and ask if it is a pushkaraj. If he says yes, maybe you could continue to wear it.

It may be flawed, but at least it's not harmful (I think).

Hello,

I have read alot of hormonal imbalance and the many diseases it can create such as acne, oily skin etc.

What is the ayurvedic way to balance hormones?

Yes, you are right. Hormonal imbalance can certainly cause acne and oily skin, beside a host of other problems.

Coincidently, I happened to have posted just yesterday on the Vedic Astrology forum here, about how the Chakras in our body are affected by planetary rays and how hormonal imbalances can result from malefic planetary effects.

This is related to the Ayurveda in a way, because the remedies suggested for it are found in our traditional medicine.

Perhaps you would care to see the post, in the thread called

"How planets affect us: a medical aspect".

I would be pleased to answer any questions you may have, about the topic!

As you can see, there is no direct way in which Ayurvedic would cover "hormonal imbalance", but your answer can be found in correcting malfuntioning Chakras.

(On a more practical level, Ayurveda advises the use of turmeric, neem, ginger, ambe halad and a few other herbs, for treating acne and oily skin).

Does white musli have similar properties or is it used for a completely different purpose

 

Jai Sri Ram

As far as I know, White Musali helps in male sexual disorders and Black Musali helps in disorders of the female sexual organs.

Black musali is excellent in treating "Dysfunctional Uterine bleeding" and related disorders, including Endometriosis.

When we wear a gemstone,

1. The gemstone can alter the amount of rays of a particular colour that come into our body.

2. The gemstone can make the absorbed rays increase or the functions of a particular chakra.

3. A wrongly-used gemstone can interfere with the functioning of a chakra.

That is why Astrologers advise us to always use the correct gemstone, as indicated by our chart and to always use gemstones that are pure.

Impure gemstones can give wrong signals to the chakras and can cause impediment in their functioning, rather than helping them.

Similarly, if a gemstone is worn on the correct finger gives good effects, which may not be seen if worn on a wrong finger!

Actually, if a pure gemstone is worn according to advise given in the Shastras, only good effects will be seen.

While wearing a gemstone correctly, if bad effects are seen, they might be due to the effect of another planet. I think.

So, if a person is wearing a gemstone to reduce bad effects of saade-saati of Saturn, and something unwanted happens, it might have happened due to the effect of an unfavourable transit of Jupiter at that time ....... such a thing is theoretically possible.

Each gemstone controls the effects of one planet only. So it cannot have any control of the bad effects coming from another planet.

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Our physical characteristics, our mental make-up, our likes and dislikes, our desires and ambitions, our profession, our fortune and many other (in fact, every other) detail about us can be read from our horoscope by a wise and learned Astrologer.

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Planets are thought to influence us through the seven chakras in our body. Each planet is supposed to control light of one colour in the specturm, and uses it as a tool that acts on certain invisible energies that are found in the Chakras.

**Sunlight has seven colours**

**One planet governs one colour**

In that sense, planets are not living, breathing entities, but tools of the Universe, through which the Energies of our Universe reach and act on us!

(When we pray to a planet, we are really praying to the Energy - or God -that rules and controls the planet!).

The Chakras control the Endocrine System of a person, which means, the production and function of all the hormones in our body is carried on under the guidance of our chakras.

The chakras also govern all our Energies and the seventy-two thousand nadis in our body. Thoughts, being a form of energy, are ultimately regulated by the chakras.

By controlling the hormones, our chakras control our growth and metabolism at every given moment in our lives.

They control all the dhatus, all the doshas and all the visible and invisible parts of our Being.

Yoga and Ayurveda say that the seven chakras are bundles of invisible highly-charged energies, placed vertically along our Spinal coloumn.

The chakras influence every function in our life and the planets in turn, influence the chakras.

This is how the planets influence every aspect of our lives!

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Questions and comments are welcome! :)

In my next post on this thread, I will talk about the connection of our Chakras with the Universe outside our individual Body.

Manju, remember that you are not alone in your time of suffering.

We are all with you, to help and offer support.

Please see if you can get a place in a Working Women's hostel within a short time, with someone's help. Move into it as soon as you can.

If there's no vacany there, try and get place as a PG (paying guest) at someone's place. I know they don't like to have married women as PGs, but you could approach an NGO for this... they might be able to help you.

The best weapon is financial independence and you have that.

Stay separate from your husband for the present and continue to go to work.

He might come to your place of work, so try and take prohibitive action (legal or otherwise) as is possible for you.

Do not come to or leave your place of work alone..... for some weeks.

It is better not too provoke him, a woman is unable to defend herself physically against an enraged man.

Take the help of your colleagues, if they'll help, to escort you some distance from your workplace.

Again, a lot depends upon your place of work and nature of work.

If you can manage, get a transfer......

These are the things you need to focus on, right now.

Leave everything else for later.

As Janaki has said, May God be with you!

Hello...... Hellooooo.............

Okay, you are in a terrible mess, domestically.

BUT you have a job and are earning your living.

You do not seem to have a child to look after, and at this stage, that could be a blessing in disguise.

Second marriage or not... it is nobody's business, don't be afraid, don't take abuse!

Your first priority should be to stay safe, physically.

Your next priority should be to stay emotionally under control.

Get it?

Can you keep safe physically? Is there any place you could go to, for a few days?

Perhaps your father-in-law would give you permission, he seems to be all right, from your post.

If you stay in Delhi, you could go to a Women's Support Group in your area.

They have devoted Counsellors who counsel both partners in a marriage.

I can see you are desperately trying to save your marriage, but your emotional status betrays your hopes..... you need to save yourself first, then anyone can think of saving your marriage.

Remedies to correct planetary imbalances often work, but they take time to do that.

And your emotional state says you don't have time, you need quick action to save yourself from desperation.

Please go to a Support Group in your area.... mahila mandals have them.

Don't waste time on an online Support Group.

You need real help, and they'll give it.

We can work with your horoscope and that of your husband's, later. Surely.

There are many herbal remedies which will give you immediately control over yourself. If you need to, go to my website listed in my profile page, and call me up.

I live very far away from you, but I'll do my best to help.

Come on, get a grip on yourself!

Dear Medical Astrology,

 

Can you explain more about how this Medical Astrology would work for me. I have been obese my whole life. My mother is too and so was her mother. I just found a photo of my great grandmother. I have the exact body as she does. I have tried everything to get this weight off but here I sit with the belly of Lord Ganesh.

 

Are you saying that there is some herb that everyone with obesity will take or are you saying that I would need to have my horoscope read and then you would be able to tell me which particular foods and herbs I would need? Would my sister who has the same problem use the same herbs as me even though she was born on a different day?

 

I don't want to bother you with too many questions but I have to ask just one more.

My friend was suffering from depression for many years and then she started drinking wine every night and it scared her because she can get addicted to anything that passes her by. She got her horoscope read by a "medical astrologer" or something like this and she had to take a bath on Thursdays with something that she called "dirt" but I don't think it really was dirt. She also had to take some herbs everyday.

Anyways, her depression is so much better. This is a big surprise because I have known her for about 20 years and she has always been on and off drugs for this but now she seems okay.

My question is do you treat other things besides obesity or would you treat things like depression?

"Prisha", you have brought up some important and relevant issues. I will try and answer them, one by one.

1. It is quite possible that you share your Ascendant (first house) or Rashi sign (Moon sign) with your mother, grandmother and perhaps even great-grandmother.

It is known that children often share these signs with their parents, but I do not know and cannot say whether such signs can be shared exclusively among female members through several generations!

I think there should be some prospective studies carried out about this, henceforth, as it would certainly be interesting to know how often Ascendants and Rashi signs are inherited.

2. Well, herbs for a particular planet would not change, even if the planet is in a different house and a different sign, in horoscopes of different persons. There are certain herbs (as mentioned on my website) that effect different planets.

As you perhaps know, planets are thought to influence us through the seven chakras in our body. Each planet is supposed to control light of one colour in the specturm, and uses it as a tool that acts on certain invisible energies that are found in the Chakras.

In that sense, planets are not living, breathing entities, but tools of the Universe, through which the Energies of our Universe reach and act on us!

(When we pray to a planet, we are really praying to the Energy {or God} that rules and controls the planet!)

The herbs mentioned in my blog are thought to alter the effects of the planetary rays that come into our bodies through our skins and thus modify the effects of planets in a horoscope.

Of course, there are herbs other than the ones I've written, but that is rather privliged information which I would not wish to divulge at this point of time!

In answer to your question, I would like to add that it is not only which herb should be used but when, and that information is also obtained from the horoscope.

For instance, if Jupiter in the first house is being transited by Jupiter, that is when the seeds of obesity may be sown or, if obesity is already established, it may become more evident... in other words, the person is most likely to put on weight during that year!

3. I am happy to read that your friend, who used herbal baths, felt better with them. I am not surprised she calls the herb powder 'dirt' because dried and powdered herbs look a bit like that, anyway.

There are many conditions that would (theoretically) respond to such treatment but I wouldn't be able to list all of them. I have treated a few common conditions and am willing to stick my neck out and say that it works.

What is needed however, is patience because it never works instantly.

My experience tells me that the remedies begin to work in a few months for the slow-moving planets and in a few weeks for the fast-moving ones, which is quite logical, if we stop and think.

Different medical conditions are the outcome of the effects of different planets.... and the relation between many are not even known.

It is upto the astrological and medical fraternities to get together and do some work in this area!

You could add ginger-garlic paste to your food and also sprinkle coriander+cumin powder on it.

These will reduce gaseous distension and indigestion caused by Gastritis, which is what you seem to have.

i know a person who had a similar condition and the hepatitis was some strain which had remained undetected in 1991 all allopathic doctors had written him off as a case of terminal cirrosis but the guy is alive and healthy and working today... he had been prescribed arogyawardhini gutika tablets (3 times a day with milk)... and punarnivadi kadha... all the functions of his liver are now normal with sgpt and sgot within the specified parameters...

Yes, punarnava often works wonders in liver cirrhosis. So does Bhui amla.

There certainly is herbal treatment available for PCOS but I wouldn't know if you could call it Ayurvedic, in the strict sense of the word, because not all the herbs in the herbal formula for PCOS are from India.

These herbs reduce the cysts in the Ovaries, reduce the cramping pain and dysmenorrhoea associated with PSOS. They also reduce excess hair (called hirsutism) on the body, if any.... hirsutism is often associated with PCOS.

Your friend needs to reduce her weight too, as her BMI is way beyond normal (69 kg and 5' height).

As as already been written, she would do well to include large portions of fresh fruits and vegetables in her diet, along with high-fibre foods.

I do not know if she can do vigorous exercise, because her PCOS may prevent her from doing that, but she should do whatever exercise her condition allows her to do.

Perhaps getting PCOS treated first and then starting an exercise regimen would be best for her, but she could start eating an appropriate diet from now itself, to stave off problems associated with obesity, later.

Thank you sri medical astrologer,

it is amazing, astrology help to cure,

I am learner of astrologer, i do not know the relation between medicine and astrology. please give good web addresss to know more about medical astrology.

How it works. how it helps.

thank you

Actually I am a qualified allopathic doctor (MD) and astrology has been my hobby.

So it was relatively easy for me to learn the inter-relation between these two.

I don't think there are any websites which combine both these disciplines, as the subject would be far too specialised and there will be very few medical persons who would have studied astrology (in depth) and thought about it!

My own site which is listed in my Signature below, gives the basics of the subject.

Thank you, Ayush.

I am interested in posting about 'medical astrology' mainly and that's what I will be doing on this forum, off-and-on.

I would like all astrologers - both professional and amateur - to think about remedies in this manner.

I am sure many samhitas would have such information, and it is time to dig it out!

Dear 'Unhealthy' (I hate to call you that!)

Yes, MB does not have enough activity, of late, to enthuse. As someone there has said, people visit only once, ask their question and after you have spent hours analysing their chart, they just buzz off from there, never to come again!

I chose to focus on medical astrology because many years ago, I found the connection between healing herbs and planets.

I studied hard and laboriously, for years, before putting this on the internet.

Some of my knowledge, I give away for free (as I have done on my weblog mentioned in my profile), the rest I keep to myself, for professional reasons! (I have to earn a living too, you know!)

You will find (some) herbs mentioned for Jupiter, on my weblog. Using even these during specific planetary periods definitely helps, in obesity.

About alcoholism.... I have found people who are addicted do not take the remedies properly and I have never been able to help them.

I prefer to focus on those conditions I can really make a difference in.... chronic diseases, for example.

And emotional and psychological problems..... there I can make a tremendous difference by helping people stay away from anti-depressants and other prescription drugs!

Prevention of addiction is no mean achievement, I can tell you!

Also, in chronic disorders, people swallow pain-killers and other such drugs needlessly, when simpler measures can help... the oils and herbs I've mentioned for Saturn and Mercury have certainly helped (along with some of my own formulations!) by keeping many people away from toxic effects of prescription medicines!

To give you only one example... Mahanarayan oil contains Shatavari as a main ingredient. Local application as well as shatavari churna help a lot in painful conditions caused by Saturn....

fascinating, isn't it?

I get immense satisfaction doing this work.

Charts of individuals who suffer from Obesity and who always have to take active measures to keep their weight under control, often show a marked effect of the planet Jupiter in their lives.

Jupiter in the first house, or aspecting the lord of the first house, often causes a tendency towards obesity.

Similarly, Jupiter placed in the second house (this house rules, besides other things, the food that we eat) gives a diet rich in fats and perhaps also causes a greater amount of fats to be absorbed from food.

A Jupitarean sign in the first house of a Vedic horoscope shows an inclination towards Obesity.

Jupiter can especially cause obesity during the periods of its dasha and bhuktis (major and minor planetary periods described in Vedic Astrology of India), during a person's life, if the chart shows strong Jupitarean influences, as mentioned above!

For these individuals, besides following a sensible diet pattern and getting enough physical exercise (the two most important and necessary ways to tackle Obesity), remedies and measures described in Vedic Astrology to counter excess Jupiterean effects may also help them keep their weight under control!