Medical Astrology case study no 8- Elephantiasis (non filarial)

This blog will discuss a case of elephantiasis using Vedic Astrology. Here is the birth chart of the native.

As you can see that first house (lagna) has cancer (4th) zodiac and its lord i.e. Moon, is posted in ninth house with Sun and combusted Venus in 12th zodiac. This shows that the native’s very strong focus (Sun) right from beginning will be to have luxuries (Venus). Since Venus is exulted here, the native will be thoughtful in spending on luxuries (as 12th zodiac comes after Saturn’s zodiac and has thoughtfulness) most of the time except when Rahu and Mars will be strong in transit or dashas. However Sun strongly combusting Venus, also shows that high Pitta (heat) of the person will keep evaporating the luxuries and then the native will have to make efforts again and again to build them up.

Sun moon proximity shows that native’s rasa and thus blood too (moon) will be hot conveying that the native’s parents used to consume very hot potency foods and drinks which is why native at the time of birth carried these doshas. Another very important point here is the 7th house of the native which has debilitated Jupiter. 7th house Karaka is Venus and presence of a debilitated Jupiter imparts excessive heaviness and swelling to the lower most chakra. Remember that mooladhara chakra has a direct impact on the legs of the native which in this case imparted heaviness and swelling to the legs of the native.

This is further compounded by the fact that sixth house has Rahu and 7th has Mars and here Mars is before Jupiter. Now we know that Jupiter MD comes immediately after Rahu Mars MD AD (this is because rahu is expansion like open fingers  of a palm and Mars add further expansion to it which then pushes Kapha and sourness triggering onset of Jupiter (expanded Kapha). Thus mooladhara is affected by double impact of Jupiter here which is why the native has excessive kapha in the lower body including legs. The combination also shows that  the native consumed excessively heavy and sour (Jupiter), hot and spicy (Mars) and Junk (Rahu as Rahu is light in nutrition) food apart from hot (Sun) foods. Since Venus was already strong in the person and Venus is heavy and dense and it settles in the lower chakras due to heaviness, it pushed rasa in the lower body. Thus when subsequently the native consumed sour,  spicy foods, they created expansion in the lower body where more of rasa was present.

*** While Mars is exulted and Jupiter is debilitated in 7th house which creates neech bhang (cancellation of debilitation) yoga, however this doesn’t help here much due to proximity of Rahu that too in 9th zodiac as 9th zodiac is of Jupiter, so Rahu in it creates a sort of Guru chandal yoga.

*** To those who understand Ayurveda, this is case of high Vata in upper body pushing Kapha  in lower as the brain due to less blood reaching there, feels hungry and eats more food including sour, spicy and heavy. It is also possible that the native consumed lot of onion (and garlic) especially in winters and rains, which due to vasodilation and the effect of gravity pushed the rasa towards the lower body.

Treatment

To begin with, this case of elephantiasis is non filarial, in the sense that it is not because of infection of lymph by the roundworm larvae injected through any mosquito bite. Instead it is swelling of lymph system  due to lifestyle and genetics.  While the issue is deep seated what is needed here is something exactly opposite to the case we discussed for treating paraplegia. In this case, the native needs to do headstand with the help of inversion tables which are totally safe. This will push rasa upwards however such asanas must be accompanied with astringent diet but without pungency and bitterness so that rasa constricts inwards and then can be shifted towards upper body. Please note that swollen Kapha (i.e. sourness) in rasa will not allow the rasa to move upwards at all. Also to note that since in the morning, the body is inwards and constricted (due to sleep and relative coldness in night), head stand should be performed only in the morning after a good night sleep and emptying of stomach.

All in all, any disease can be reversed only with the principle of opposites. So to reverse this disease, the native needs to stay totally away from chilies (red or greed), tea, coffee and sour and spicy foods and push rasa in upper body against gravity with the help of assisted head stands. It goes without saying that the native will need lot of patience and may need to perform this asana for several months to start seeing the result. Also to note that excess headstands may create mild constipation for which the native may do bhujangasana. Last but not the least, pushing rasa upwards with bandages all around the legs will yield only temporary results.