Arthritis and Medical Astrology

Arthritis is an inflammation of joints. Arthritis is the swelling and tenderness of one or more of your joints. The main symptoms of arthritis are joint pain and stiffness, which typically worsen with age. The most common types of arthritis are osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.

Osteoarthritis causes cartilage — the hard, slippery tissue that covers the ends of bones where they form a joint — to break down.

Rheumatoid arthritis is a disease in which the immune system attacks the joints, beginning with the lining of joints.

Uric acid crystals, which form when there’s too much uric acid in your blood, can cause gout. Infections or underlying disease, such as psoriasis or lupus, can cause other types of arthritis.

Types:

Degenerative arthritis – This is called as osteoarthritis. In this, the bones and the cartilage rub against each other causing extreme painful conditions.

Inflammatory arthritis – In this arthritis, there is an inflammation of the joint of the shoulder and legs. The immune system of the body starts acting against the body immunity potentially causing joint erosion and internal damage to the organ.

Metabolic arthritis – Uric acid is formed when body breaks purine. If there is an accumulation of huge amount of uric acid in the body then it starts accumulating in the body and causes uric acid crystals that get deposited in the body joints and cause pain and swelling.

Results into:

Pain

Stiffness

Swelling

Redness

Decreased range of motion

Medical Astrology analyzes following astrological configurations as reasons causing several types of Arthritis:

• The 12th house occupied by weak Moon and Saturn
        • If Saturn as the 7th lord is afflicted due to conjunction
        • The 6th lord along with Rahu or Ketu occupying the 1st house
        • Saturn aspects the Sun in the Cancer sign
        • The Moon and Saturn conjunct in the Cancer sign
        • The Moon conjunct Mars in the 6th house
        • The Moon conjunct Mars and Saturn in the 12th house
• Saturn in lagna and Mars in fifth, seventh or ninth house.
• Weak Moon and Saturn in twelfth house.
• Saturn in Sagittarius or Pisces Sign aspected by Mars.
• Sun, Moon and Saturn in lagna.
• Jupiter in lagna and Saturn in seventh house
• Mars in tenth house aspected by Saturn.
• Moon with malefic in lagna, and Mars in sixth or eighth house with Saturn.
• Moon and Saturn in sixth house.
• Venus in eighth house aspected by malefic.
• Ketu in lagna, afflicted.
• Sixth lord in lagna with Rahu or Ketu.
• Saturn and Rahu in third house
• Saturn and Rahu in second house

When windy planets Moon, Mercury, Venus and Saturn are weak, combusted, afflicted, badly situated, conjoined with lord of dusthana and are also in some way related with sixth house, lord of sixth house etc, they give rise to rheumatic diseases. Saturn is karaka for gouts. Ketu also rules over the windy diseases.

Medical Astrology analyzes the native’s personalized the chart by studying the related afflictions of houses, planets, weaknesses and inauspicious planetary configurations and effects on the mind, organs, body parts and helps in finding the astrological root cause and recommends necessary remedial measures.