Medical Astrology: A Rational Approach[SP]

It has been endeavoured to introduce a few specialties in this book. Firstly to discuss for the benefit of the student of astrology a maximum number of diseases under astrological laws. Secondly to supply in support of that discussion as many illustrations from actual life as is possible, with a view to make the subject readily understandable. Thirdly we have tried to place the astrological material in a rational & logical manner, so that the question of health and disease can be tackled in an independent way without being too much subser-vient to the shlokas of the text. We do meet with shlokas dealing with most of the diseases but there are very few books, if at all, which discuss the “how’ and “why” of disease. We have attempted to discuss the constituents of diseases and the astrological factors representing them severely in order that the student can extend the application of the method to new diseases.
2. All the subjects discussed in this book are based strictly on the fundamental and basic cannons of the science of Indian Astrology which is ex-precessional in character. That is to say the longitudes of the planets in this system are measured from a fixed point viz the star ashvini and not from the vernal equinox-a receding point as in western system of astrology. Thus in order to arrive at the lorgitudes of all planets given in this book, you have to deduct the value of the precession or ayanamsha. The ayanamsha Shri N.C. Lihiri of calcutta may be used, though this ayanamsha too is more than the true value of ayanamsha by about a degree as given in the ephemeris by