Post by unknownRelating illnesses to foods or medicinal herbs by astrological signature
sounds like great fun, if it could be got working. The associations of
plants would need research; the books all seem to disagree on those.
I was not aware of any greater disagreement in this area. Do you think
of anything in particular?
Post by unknownHmm, I
wonder how you'd do an experiment into that?
There already exists a lot of folk lore regarding medicine that HAS
been used by pharmaceutical companies. Investigating what has been
used, and for what purposes, would surely indicate how to
astrologically classify the plant in question. Then there are also
those plants that are not used (because they would yield no particular
profit, not being possible to protect by patent) in orthodox medicine,
but whose properties are known. S:t John's Wort, for instance.
Post by unknown I don't quite know where to
find out what Hippocrates had to say.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Corpus
I am not certain it would be necessary to investigate though. There
are later sources.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Culpeper
Post by unknownThere'd also be plenty of mileage in any indicator of whether someone might
react well or badly to a certain medical drug. The geneticists used to
promise definitive tests for all that, but I don't think they've got far
yet.
One area where I would like to see astrology enter mainstream research
would be precisely that of the geneticists. One could think of the
birth chart as a variation of the genetic sequence, and to find areas
of overlap would be extremely exciting.
Post by unknownIf children with certain chart features reliably had a higher risk of
trouble at school, that might possibly be an argument for educating them at
home in the first place...
Or you would know how to change the school to fit their needs. Take
for instance neuropsychiatric disorders. I hesitate to think that home
schooling would in general be better for autistic children, but surely
knowing their condition makes possible better paedagogics. Whether one
would determine the condition through one means or another would not
change that.
/Kjell
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Post by Kjell PetterssonAssuming an astrologer could give advice that was health-related
without being incarcerated I think one possible way of giving advice
based upon astrology, and upon knowing what possible diseases were
indicated by a person's chart, would be through diet advice.
I have read about an animal (sorry, don't remember what animal) that
eats of an herb known to have a medical effect only when it is sick,
but not touching it otherwise. We humans have surely lost this capacity
the price of civilization, but I think we could substitute instinct
with knowledge here. You would counter the signature of the disease
with the signature of a plant with medical properties, or perhaps with
an entire "diet signature". I know too little about Hippocrates, but
perhaps some ideas could be gleaned there? He was pro-astrology and he
was pro-diet.
Post by Kjell PetterssonRegardless of whether the correlation is astrological or not, I think
it would be valuable to know, say, that you are prone to heart
problems. If so, you can change your diet and lifestyle in an
appropriate manner. If your parents and a lot of other relatives had
cancer, that would also signal to me that changing some things may be
more beneficial than changing others.
Having a focus for how and where to seek to implement changes is
likely to lead to more adequate changes being made, over-all leading
to a better health in the long run.
Of course, "a healthy lifestyle" is pretty much the same, but there
would still be differences in priorities.
/K
Post by unknownSuppose somebody managed to prove a really firm statistical correlation
between some phenomenon and features in a Birth Chart. For instance, if
people with certain aspects were much more or less likely to develop a
certain medical condition. What practical use could you make of that
information? I mean, you can't go back and change the chart, can you?
Ideas welcome. Reason I ask is I'm plunging into research again, as
soon as
I've got the programming sorted out.